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Chilean Soccer Team Supports Gaza

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Chilean Soccer Team Supports Gaza

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

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.

A Short Video on Chile’s CD Palestino

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A Short Video on Chile’s CD Palestino


Posted on YouTube: November 7, 2023

This is from Al Jazeera Spanish.

It is about the Palestinian Soccer Club in Santiago, Chile (CD Palestino).

CD Palestino = Club Deportivo Palestino = Palestinian Sports Club

The soccer club is world famous.

The comments (underneath the Video, on the YouTube page) show that a lot of people who are not Arab, nor Palestinian, nor from Chile, root for the team.

The team has taken on a political life of its own.

This particular video has been politicized, as it references the present Gaza War in one of its images.

Palestinian Soccer Team in Chile Still Grips Imagination

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Palestinian Soccer Team in Chile Still Grips Imagination


Posted on YouTube: May 2023
(You have to watch it on YouTube)

Another fascinating video from Chile about the soccer (futbol) team, CD Palestino. It has been an international sensation.

The fans of CD Palestino (Palestinian Sports Club) affectionately call themselves Baisanos because their ancestors, who came to Chile 100 years ago called themselves countrymen, which is Spanish is paisano, only, being Arab in origin, they mispronounced the p as B, hence Baisanos.

At one time, the team members were required to be of Palestinian origins, but that is no longer required.

The fan base include a lot of non-Arab aficionados.

The video (which you have to click to watch on YouTube itself) shows that the team in Chile has become a sort of unofficial national team for the Palestinians in the Mideast. But there are issues. The Chilean team sponsors gender equality which does not go over so well in the repressed Islamic region.

Palestino Soccer Club Is Now An International Force

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Posted on YouTube: October 21, 2020

The documentary is subtitled in English.

This is not exaggerationg, but the Palestino [Palestinian] Soccer Club of Santiago, Chile has become world renowned. It gets involved in Mideast Politics.

NOTE: The team is regularly referred to as CD Palestino which means Club Deportivo Palestino, which means Palestinian Sports CLub.

Locally, in Chile, CD Palestino will have moments of silence before any game for any occasion when Palestinians are killed in the Mideast conflict between Israel and Palestine.

CD Palestino’s fame has spread to the Mideast, where its players are more well known that they are in Chile.

This team is well known internationally, however, there is another force in Chile … Evangelical Christians, and they are … pro-Israel. On a per capita basis they may not be as rich as Palestinian-Chileans, but there are a whole lot more Evangelicals than Palestinians.

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