ckaihatsu
4th May 2018, 16:09
#ShameOnGiro: Lets Give Giro dItalia a Reality Check
Giro d'Italia needs a reality check
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Giro dItalia is steamrolling ahead with its decision to start the famed cycling race in Jerusalem this Friday. They need a reality check.
Israels multi-million dollar bribe was enough to enlist Giro in its propaganda campaign. As a result, Giro is
Whitewashing, or sport-washing, Israels ongoing war crimes, including the deliberate murder of peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza, just kilometers away from the race.
Ignoring the Palestinian cities and towns along the route destroyed and ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.
Covering up Israels dozens of apartheid laws and policies that force some Palestinian communities to live without basic services such as water, electricity, schools and roads.
Ignoring Israels illegal settlements, apartheid wall and checkpoints denying Palestinians freedom of movement.
Ignoring the Israeli governments explicitly racist policy of gradual ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians from Jerusalem.
Ignoring the calls from Palestinian and international civil society organizations representing millions, from Palestinian officials, Palestinian Christian networks and members of European Parliament to relocate the race.
UCI, the world cycling body, has kept its head firmly in the sand, refusing to take measures to ensure cycling isnt complicit in Israels oppression of Palestinians.
Its up to us to spoil the party and give Giro a reality check
On Friday, May 4, as millions around the world follow the race, lets rain on the parade. Lets spoil the celebrations of 70 years of Palestinian dispossession.
Share sample tweets, videos, memes and an interactive map with the hashtag #ShameOnGiro and #Giro101.
Thank you!
Giro d'Italia needs a reality check
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Giro dItalia is steamrolling ahead with its decision to start the famed cycling race in Jerusalem this Friday. They need a reality check.
Israels multi-million dollar bribe was enough to enlist Giro in its propaganda campaign. As a result, Giro is
Whitewashing, or sport-washing, Israels ongoing war crimes, including the deliberate murder of peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza, just kilometers away from the race.
Ignoring the Palestinian cities and towns along the route destroyed and ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.
Covering up Israels dozens of apartheid laws and policies that force some Palestinian communities to live without basic services such as water, electricity, schools and roads.
Ignoring Israels illegal settlements, apartheid wall and checkpoints denying Palestinians freedom of movement.
Ignoring the Israeli governments explicitly racist policy of gradual ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians from Jerusalem.
Ignoring the calls from Palestinian and international civil society organizations representing millions, from Palestinian officials, Palestinian Christian networks and members of European Parliament to relocate the race.
UCI, the world cycling body, has kept its head firmly in the sand, refusing to take measures to ensure cycling isnt complicit in Israels oppression of Palestinians.
Its up to us to spoil the party and give Giro a reality check
On Friday, May 4, as millions around the world follow the race, lets rain on the parade. Lets spoil the celebrations of 70 years of Palestinian dispossession.
Share sample tweets, videos, memes and an interactive map with the hashtag #ShameOnGiro and #Giro101.
Thank you!