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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.

Protest at Israeli Embassy in Chile

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Protest at Israeli Embassy in Chile


Posted on YouTube: October 20, 2023

This protest took place three days ago on Friday, in front of the Israeli Embassy in Santiago.

It had to be tough duty that day in the Israeli embassy.

The crowd is chanting that “this is not a war, it’s a genocide.”

Note: At the time of this writing, something like 99% of the Palestinians in Chile are Christian, not Muslim, so the lady with the hijab is NOT typical.

Since the Palestinian cause – especially that of Hamas – is associated with Islam, one might find it odd that the Christian Chilestinos identify some much with the anti-Zionist cause of Palestine. But, apparently, in the case of Chilestinos, ancestry trumps religion.

The YouTube video (above) has an auto-translation option.

Below we have a tweet showing the Chilean protest, but notice that the tweet shows a PRESSTV video. PRESSTV is Iranian propaganda.

Also note, most Chilestinos are of mixed ancestry, not pure Palestinian.

Chile Lit A Skyscraper With Keffiyeh

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From earlier in July:

And from the Middle East Monitor, which is NOT exactly unbiased.

Essentially, a major skyscraper, Chile’s Telephone Tower, was lit up with a Palestinian keffiyeh … to support the Palestinians against Israel’s annexation plans.

Chile has a large – and elite – Palestinian population. This could not happen in the United States.

This is the power of the Palestinian community in Chile.

Source: Middle East Monitor
July 5, 2020

As Israel moves closer to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, solidarity in the Global South has been gaining momentum. On 2 July Chile’s Telephone Tower was lighted with the Palestinian kufiyeh in support of the Palestinian people and rejection of the annexation plan. Chile, the country with the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America, directed their gesture of support to the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories.

Chile was not alone in its solidarity efforts; representatives from most Latin American countries signed a joint statement against Israel’s annexation plan. The document was released on 2 July by more than 320 public figures. Among them, former presidents, parliamentarians, ministers, academics and artists. They called upon the international community to impose effective counter measures against Israel, including targeted sanctions, ending trade ties and legal action.

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