Three people were arrested on July 31, 2002 at a football match featuring Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv at Leyton Orient in east London.
In a scene reminiscent of demonstrations against South African apartheid, activists invaded the pitch, carrying Palestinian flags and a huge banner demanding an end to Israel's brutal illegal military occupation of Palestinian land.
The three were charged and will be appearing at a hearing at 9.30am Tuesday, 6 August, at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court, Farnan Avenue E17.
IF YOU ARE IN LONDON, PLEASE JOIN THEM IF YOU CAN TO SUPPORT THEM AT THE HEARING!! (Walthamstow Central tube, Victoria Line; overground from Liverpool St; 275 bus stops outside the court.)
A spokesperson from PSC and the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign for Palestine
said this morning, "As more people realize that current violence stems from Israel's occupation and theft of Palestinian land, and witness its refusal of justice to the Palestinians, support for the boycott is spreading like wildfire to include many different levels of contact with the state of Israel. This is a form of non-violent direct action providing a means by which citizens can express that which politicians will not:
Israel cannot expect to carry on normal international relationships until it ends its human rights abuses, illegal occupation and apartheid policies.' For more information please call 0781 0197247 or see the PSC website: www.palestinecampaign.org
Campaigners handed out the following leaflet to match-goers:
KICK RACISM OUT OF SPORT!
DON'T PLAY BALL WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID!
While Israeli sportsmen and women freely tour the world, the sporting talent of Palestine is wasted under illegal occupation and apartheid, curfew, imprisonment, attack, in refugee camps and exile. Palestinian children are shot while playing football. The freedom we take for granted to go out and kick a ball around is denied as they are imprisoned within their own homes.
The Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign began last year to express public outrage
over the brutal Israeli occupation. Since then these atrocities and war crimes have worsened, and more and more people support the boycott as a peaceful means of putting international pressure on the state of Israel.
If politicians won't act people must! It is an outrage that British Football clubs play with Israeli teams while Israeli military and colonists are killing men, women and children in the illegally Occupied Territories and the Israeli State shows no signs of even wanting a peaceful end to the occupation.
Observe a sporting boycott until Israel ends the occupation and its racist state terrorism. It happened with South Africa and it will happen with Israel.
"my visit to the Holy Land ... reminded me so much of what happened to us in South Africa ... If apartheid ended, so can the occupation, but the moral force and
international pressure will have to be just as determined.' Archbishop Desmond Tutu
JUSTICE DEMANDS A BOYCOTT! FAIR PLAY FOR PALESTINE!
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