Palestino presenta: “𝐌𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒“ #TodoUnPueblo 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/Hd9popXqKI
— Club Deportivo Palestino (@CDPalestinoSADP) May 26, 2024
I am just posting for your information.
The CD Palestino (Palestinian Sports Club) Soccer team is a major league soccer franchise in Santiago, Chile, sort of like a professional sports team here in the USA. It was founded in 1920 by Palestinian-Chileans (Chilestinos).
It has become more than a sports team, but also a political force to be reckoned with in Chile, and not only Chile but also in the whole Mideast. It has a large fan base in the Palestinian territories, the Muslim world, and even has its fans throughout the world.
Posted on YouTube: December 13, 2017
I need this jersey 🇨🇱🇵🇸❤️
thank you sir, we need more of you! #FreePalestine #Chile #Gaza pic.twitter.com/37hY5eI5te— 𝙹̷𝚎̷𝚕̷𝚕̷𝚢̷ 🐝 (@JeezyJelly2023) May 11, 2024
A Scot shows off his CD Palestino jersey.
The teams’s fame has spread world wide.
I do NOT agree with CD Palestino’s politics, which tend to be anti-Israel, but I am just reporting what is posted.
And the team is presently making a statement about the Gaza War (see first tweet).
There is an influential Palestinian constituency in Chile, and part of the way they express their power is through their sports team: CD Palestino.
Palestinians in Chile are rich, influential, and politically powerful. They vastly outnumber the Jews of Chile, and can get away with this in a way that would NOT be acceptable in the USA.
Indeed, the government of Chile often falls in line behind the Palestinian community’s wishes.
This is odd, because Chile is otherwise a progressive Western democracy.
Naturally, the Jewish community in Chile condemns anti-Israel protests in Chile – see below where the Jewish community condemned Chilean student protests which called for the university to break relations with Israeli campuses.
"La Comunidad Judía de Chile condenó la manifestación realizada ayer miércoles en el frontis de la casa central de la Universidad de Chile, donde estudiantes de la institución de educación superior llamaron a sus autoridades a romper relaciones con planteles israelíes en condena… pic.twitter.com/lAkK5WQgG1
— Comunidad Judía de Chile (@comjudiachile) May 17, 2024