Pushing the Ultras Off the Pedestal | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/labyrinth/pushing-ultras-pedestal
Pushing the Ultras Off the Pedestal
Très complet, sur la question compliquée du positionnement politique des « Ultras » en Egypte...
L’ancienne ministre des Sports MG Buffet demande l’annulation de l’Euro 2013 en Israël
Ultra-violence spreads, and Morsi runs out of answers - The National
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/ultra-violence-spreads-and-morsi-runs-out-of-answers#full
What Egypt suffers most from today is not plots hatched in the shadows, but a shallow state that is cracking on the surface.
Par James Dorsey, auteur d’un blog dont le nom est tout un programme The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer http://mideastsoccer.blogspot.fr
.:Middle East Online ::Egyptian prosecutor submits new evidence in bid to preempt violent soccer :.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=56618
Egypt’s public prosecutor has submitted new evidence in the case against 73 people accused of responsibility for the death a year ago of 72 soccer fans in a politically loaded brawl in a bid to delay a verdict scheduled for January 26 that is certain to spark violent protests.
European Footballers for Palestine
http://english.al-akhbar.com/print/14299
mobilisation des sportifs pour la Palestine
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8970:new-israeli-escalation-a
New Israeli Escalation against the Gaza Strip, 7 Palestinians, Including 3 Children, Killed and 52 Others, Including 6 Women and 12 Children, Wounded
Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, Israeli military vehicles stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at a number of Palestinian children who were playing football at al-Mentar Hill east of al-Shoja’iya neighborhood, which is east of Gaza City and nearly 1,500 meters away from the border. As a result, 2 children were instantly killed:
1- Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16); and
2- Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).
Following this attack, a number of Palestinian civilians, who were in the consolation house of the Harara family, rushed to the area, where the IOF immediately fired another 3 shells. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were instantly killed:
1- Ahmed Kamel Al- Dirdissawi (18); and
2- Matar ‘Emad ‘Abdul Rahman Abu al-‘Ata (19).
Additionally, 38 civilians, including 8 children, were wounded; the wounding of 10 of these civilians was described by medical crews as being serious.
Earlier, on Thursday evening, 08 November 2012, the IOF killed a Palestinian child during an incursion in the ‘Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present. He was evacuated to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, but he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later.
On Saturday and Sunday, 10 and 11 November 2012, Israeli warplanes targeted a number of members of the Palestinian resistance. As a result, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed in 2 separate attacks in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They were identified as:
1- Mohammed Fu’ad ‘Obaid (22), from Jabalya; and
2- Mohammed Sa’id Shkoukani (18).
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L’émission hebdomadaire francophone de Gaza.
Bonjour de Gaza
11 November 2012 at 4h57
Nos amis de la préférence nationale frappent de nouveau. Des femmes, des gosses, c’est la marque de la maison :-(
Où est botul d’ailleurs ? certainement à appeler à bombarder la Syrie ou l’Iran parce que .... c’est bon pour Israël :-(
Pendant encore combien de temps on va laisser faire cette ignomnie ?
#nakba #antisémitisme #génocide
Counter-Jihad report
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad
By Nick Lowles
Welcome to HOPE not hate’s report into the ‘Counter-Jihad’ movement. This report is the largest and most comprehensive survey of groups and individuals who comprise the ‘Counter-jihad’ movement to date.
The report covers the right-wing political parties, who are increasingly using anti-Muslim rhetoric to garner votes. It also explores the websites and bloggers who propagate scare stories about Islam. It covers the street gangs, like the English Defence League (EDL), and the like-minded groups they inspire around Europe. It also investigates the funders and the foundations which bankroll the network.
Perhaps most interestingly, it reveals the inter-connections between the different strands of this movement.
Violences néo-nazies contre les migrants en Grèce
Un témoignage préoccupant de la part de Joanna Tsoni à Athènes
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841
Alarm at Greek police ’collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn
This report is 100% accurate and spot on, giving at last, a pretty accurate depiction of what is currently taking place in Greece: Golden Dawn, its collusion with the police, and the abolition of even the last pretenses for the observance of fundamental human and civil rights . Anyone that happens to differ -immigrants, lgbt people, political dissidents, and the list goes on- is a potential moving target in the self-proclaimed “new type of civil war against anyone” of Golden Dawn. Paul Mason has been doing a remarkable and praiseworthy work, reporting on major media, in English, about the situation in Greece, which noone else has yet undertaken with such accuracy and rigour. Joanna Tsoni (from Athens).
http://www.theinsider.gr/index.php?option=com_contentview=article&id=22215%3Afriki-xylokopisan-kai
you can have a look at this page, even though it is in Greek, but the picture speaks a thousand words - along with my Facebook commentary on that. It is only one of the latest incidents: only 3-4 days old : “This is a picture of an immigrant, who was found beaten-up and chained by his neck on a tree at the island of Salamina, in Greece.
Economic crisis allows fascism to fester like a bad disease, an d Europe is under the illusion that this is not relevant to the European citizens. Aside of any important discussion about the European values, morality and solidarity, it is not a bad moment to discuss about stupidity. The stupidity and narrow mindedness of the policy makers who once believed that there will contain the economic crisis in Greece, or in the European South. Of course, all this would have been unnecessary, if people had spent some time reading about the history of Europe of the previous century.
To my non-Greek friends: loving Greece means pressing your governments not for loans for Greece, but for assisting so that policy measures are implemented in Greece now to face fascism now. Today it’s my neighborhood. Unless there is action now, tomorrow it’s going to be in yours, and it is going to be too late. Too late for everyone.”
Golden Dawn members (proclaimed as “indignant locals”) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXc30nnr-PE&feature=youtu.be
For a bit more of a local “flavor” of how these raids of the Golden Dawn members (proclaimed as “indignant locals”) in the immigrant neighbourhoods, smashing shops, community centers and chasing people around, while the police is merely standing and watching (near the end they threaten an african man ordering him to run for his life (from 1:34 on), while the police, are just revving their motorcycle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJntEn4ddA
Here, their members subsituting police, checking the licences of immigrant street vendors during a street celebration, before going on a destruction spree and wreck the kiosks of several of them.
The police was present during this and other similar raids all over Greece, doing nothing. it’s not only that they cannot, but they simply will not take action agaist them, since the largest part of the police force voted for Golden Dawn (Some 80% according to the police station election results - since police vote in special booths installed in the police stations and the results can be very easily monitored)
The last few days the random attacks of Golden Dawn members in the city center have become organised pogroms in the immigrant neighbourhoods, breaking into shops, hitting and chasing people around, smashing the Tanzanian community twice (The second time installing a small explosive mechanism). The president of the community announced a few days ago that the community will cease its operations for fear of further retaliations, like other communities, such as the Afghan have done)
Pictures and videos of the attacks on the Tanzanian community:
http://tinyurl.com/d7tyqfz
(after the attack with the explosives)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uHyeEJJUeU8&feature=endscreen (on the first attack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHokESU3FU&feature=endscreen&NR=1 (on the first attack)
Words actually fail me to keep reporting, right now, on the current situation in Athens regarding the issues raised by Deb Ranjan Sinha.
I would be glad to offer assistance if anyone is interested in more information, and/or raise awareness locally, since the language barrier that afflicts the access of foreign research and media on the local situation is significant, hence the silence, globally.
Joanna Tsoni à Athènes
Alarm at Greek police ’collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn
Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse. What I have seen on the streets of Athens convinces me this is not rhetoric. The situation is changing rapidly. There is a violent far-right party, its MPs committing and inciting violence with impunity; a police force that cannot or will not prevent Golden Dawn from projecting uniformed force on the streets. And a middle class that feels increasingly powerless to turn the situation round.
Deb Ranjan Sinha
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841
Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and there are now allegations that some Greek police are supporting the party.
“There is already civil war,” says Ilias Panagiotaros. If so, the shop he owns is set to do a roaring trade.
It sells camouflage gear, police riot gloves, face masks and T-shirts extolling football hooliganism.
Croatian court condemns football chief for gay hate | Gay Star News
http://www.gaystarnews.com/node/5812
Croatian court condemns football chief for gay hate
Vlatko Markovic, former president of the football federation, said: ’Footballers are not gay, they are healthy people.’ Now tribunal rules he must apologize
06 November 2012 | By Daniele Guido Gessa
Vlatko Markovic has been condemned by the Croatian Supreme Court for his homophobic comments.
The Croatian Supreme Court has ordered the former chief of the HNS, the national football federation, to publicly apologize for his homophobia.
Vlatko Markovic, 75, said to a journalist asking him if he had ever met a gay footballer: ‘No, fortunately football is only played by healthy people.
‘As long as I am president, I won’t permit any gay footballer.’
Now a tribunal has banned Markovic from any further discriminatory comments and ruled he must pay to publish both his apology and the court’s ruling in local newspapers.
Markovic quit his job last July. He made the homophobic comment to the Vecernji List daily newspaper.
Even though Markovic apologized for his comments some days later, several Croatian LGBT associations sued him for discrimination.
The European Football’s Association had already fined Markovic over his remarks.
A court in Zagreb rejected the case last year, but the associations appealed to the Supreme Court.
A group of gay activists issued a statement following the court’s decision: ‘Now we are very happy, this is a victory.’
Gilad Shalit, un spectateur encombrant pour le FC Barcelone « Mounadil al Djazaïri
http://mounadil.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/gilad-shalir-un-spectateur-encombrant-au-camp-nou-du-fc-barcelon
Un spectateur gênant
Par Ignacio Cembrero / Ramon Besa, El Pais (Espagne) 25 septembre 2012 traduit de l’espagnol par Djazaïri
Controverse autour de l’invitation qu’aurait faite le Barça à un soldat israélien, détenu pendant cinq ans par le Hamas, pour assister au classique contre Madrid le 7 octobre au Camp Nou.
La présence annoncée du sergent israélien Gilad Shalit lors du classique Barcelone-Madrid le 7 Octobre, au Camp Nou, a suscité une réaction de rejet chez les militants et associations pro-palestiniens et est devenue un problème difficile à gérer pour le club catalan. Le militaire, captif pendant cinq ans du Hamas dans la bande de Gaza , qui est un fervent partisan du FC Barcelone a t raté les hauts faits de son équipe au moment de son apogée (2006-2011). Shalit a exprimé son désir d’aller voir un match du Barça et le club catalan est prêt à exaucer son souhait.
Des sources auprès du club barcelonais ont confirmé hier à notre journal qu’un ancien ministre israélien avait contacté le service du protocole de Barcelone pour solliciter une invitation pour Shalit pour assister au classique du championnat.
Bien que non encore satisfaite, la requête aurait été approuvée ainsi que l’ont annoncé la chaîne de télévision Eurosport et le journal Sport. L’accord a été divulgué officieusement sur Facebook et par l’Association Catalane des Amis d’Israël.
Protests expected as FC Barcelona extends VIP invite to Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
Palestinian hunger striker, footballer Mahmoud Sarsak and Gaza clubs speak out
On Thursday, hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak who was held for three years without charge or trial by Israel said, “As a released prisoner, Palestinian national team footballer and big fan of FC Barcelona, I strongly condemn the club’s decision to invite the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to one of their matches and I call on them to cancel this decision.”
Sarsak’s statement came in a letter signed by dozens of Gaza football clubs, sports associations and coaches, including the FC Barcelona Fans Association in Gaza, which stated:
Just as the effective boycott of sports teams from the South African apartheid regime showed, sporting and political life cannot be separated. We ask you to not show solidarity with the army that oppresses, imprisons and kills Palestinian sportsmen and women in Palestine.
Among FC Barcelona’s main sponsors are the Qatar Foundation and Turkish Airlines.
« Il y a une véritable opacité de l’institution olympique » - Sports - écologie et environnement
http://www.novethic.fr/novethic/ecologie,sports,il_y_veritable_opacite_institution_olympique,138190.jsp
Pour Patrick Clastres, chercheur rattaché au Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po et spécialiste des JO*, ces jeux marquent cependant une nouvelle étape dans la prise de pouvoir du Comité international olympique. Il revient sur le mode de fonctionnement de cette institution singulière et opaque.
#JO
Andrew Jennings est un des rares journalistes à enquêter sur le CIO :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jennings
http://www.transparencyinsport.org
La rencontre entre le Liban et le Qatar en éliminatoires de la Coupe du monde 2014 disputée à huis clos ?
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/À+La+Une/article/761727/La_rencontre_entre_le_Liban_et_le_Qatar_en_eliminatoires_de_la_Coupe_
Tel un couperet, la sentence est tombée hier. La rencontre entre le Liban et le Qatar, prévue dimanche dans le cadre du groupe A du quatrième et dernier tour de qualification (zone Asie-Océanie) pour la Coupe du monde de football au Brésil l’été prochain, sera peut-être disputée à huis clos.
En effet, le ministre de la Jeunesse et des Sports, Fayçal Karamé, a informé le président de la Fédération libanaise de football, Hachem Haïdar, de son intention de faire jouer le match Liban-Qatar à huis clos pour des « raisons de sécurité ».
Lire plutôt ce qu’en dit Angry Arab, un peu plus éclairant que les approximations polies de LOLJ :
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/05/qatar-versus-lebanon-fears-of-qatari.html
Tomorrow, Lebanon’s national soccer team will face Qatar’s national soccer team in Beirut. But there will be no spectators: Lebanese governments banned them. Why? Apparently, the Qatari government knew that the Lebanese spectators will chant against the Qatari royal family and it threatened to expel all Lebanese from Qatar if such chants were allowed. The Lebanese government acted accordingly.
Attention, changement de programme :
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/À+La+Une/article/761768/La_polemique_autour_du_match_de_foot_Liban-Qatar_fait_bouillonner_les
Les réseaux sociaux et la blogosphère libanaise bouillonnaient de commentaires sur la polémique entourant la rencontre tant attendue entre le Liban et le Qatar, ce dimanche dans le cadre du dernier tour des éliminatoires pour la Coupe du monde de football au Brésil en 2014.
Affaire pour le moins confuse. Alors qu’hier le ministre de la Jeunesse et des Sports, Fayçal Karamé, avait informé le président de la Fédération libanaise de football, Hachem Haïdar, de son intention de faire jouer le match Liban-Qatar à huis clos pour des « raisons de sécurité », le même ministre a annoncé aujourd’hui que le match serait ouvert au public.
Article où l’on trouvera l’excellent :
« Même le football libanais est victime d’interférences étrangères (…) », déplorait de son côté Rola…
Un article de novembre 2007 sur les matchs de foot sans spectateurs au Liban : Lebanon’s empty football stadiums
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2007/11/2008525185111758319.html
The Lebanese league is still under way, but there are no fans to support the teams, after an official ban on spectators was introduced by the government one season ago due to fears of political and religious-inspired violence.
Play the Game: New report from Transparency International calls for innovative reforms in #FIFA
http://www.playthegame.org/news/detailed/new-report-from-transparency-international-calls-for-innovative-reforms
Transparency International has published a number of concrete recommendations for how FIFA can build integrity after the recent #corruption scandals. The recommendations include the creation of a multi-stakeholder group, an independent investigation of the past and a zero tolerance policy of bribery.
In a press release, FIFA acknowledges the recommendations from Transparency International and assures that appropriate meassures have already been taken. #lol
Why aren’t there more black football managers? | Education | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/28/black-football-managers-institutional-racism
The research, by Ellis Cashmore, professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire, and his colleague Dr Jamie Cleland, senior lecturer in sociology, involved 1,000 #football fans, professional players, referees, coaches and managers revealing their views on the dearth of black managers. More than 56% of those polled said there is racism at the top of football’s hierarchy; among BME respondents, that figure was 73%. Most radically of all, over half of BME fans called for a policy similar to the Rooney rule in the US, which stipulates that all shortlists for management and coaching jobs in the National Football League must include at least one minority candidate. The Staffordshire academics report that a third of the polled football fans encouraged this type of reform.
Je ne m’attendais pas à lire une analyse originale de la révolution égyptienne dans Sports Illustrated, mais voilà, tout peut arriver : Dave Zirin soutient le rôle des clubs de supporters de football dans les mouvements socio-politiques.
Soccer clubs central to ending Egypt’s "Dictatorship of Fear" - Dave Zirin - SI.com
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/dave_zirin/01/31/egypt.soccer/index.html?xid=twitter_share
As soccer writer James Dorsey wrote this week, “The involvement of organized soccer fans in Egypt’s anti-government protests constitutes every Arab government’s worst nightmare. Soccer, alongside Islam, offers a rare platform in the Middle East, a region populated by authoritarian regimes that control all public spaces, for the venting of pent-up anger and frustration.”
Dorsey’s statement proved prophetic on Sunday when it was announced that Libya’s government had instructed the Libyan Football Federation to ban soccer matches for the foreseeable future. Sources in the government said that this was done to head off the mere possibility that Egypt’s demonstrations could spill over the border. The fear was that soccer could be the artery that would connect the challenge to Mubarak to a challenge to former U.S. foe turned ally Moammar Gadhafi.
Du coup, je signale que Dave Zirin avait écrit un (bon) article justifiant le boycott des rencontres sportives avec les équipes israéliennes après l’attaque de la flotille de la paix :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-zirin/flotilla-fallout-are-team_b_598512.html
International sport, to awkwardly paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, is politics by other means. It’s used explicitly by all nations as a tool to demonstrate diplomatic goodwill. But in the context of such a visceral crime, international diplomacy morphs into little more than international propaganda and sporting Stratego. If a team refuses to play Israel because they don’t want to be party to the public relations objectives of a state engorged with violence, then that is nothing to be “saddened” about.