23 August 2007

Surprise... a little political backbone

Can you imagine the shitstorm if this happened here in Canada?

A Palestinian football team has been banned from playing in Britain, because officials apparently believe they will not return to Gaza.

The team's visa applications were rejected after every member failed to meet entry criteria, said a spokesman for the British consulate in Jerusalem.


4 comments:

Blazing Cat Fur said...

Hell they would probably be offered dual citizenship and receive offers to run as NDP candidates if they landed here.

nemississs said...

Hell Stephanie has already sent a letter to the British House of Lords complaining " that's not fair, that's not fair, do jew not knows how ard tis to get himagrants oouu votes lierable hanymore.

Mark said...

Honest Reporting has an excellent piece on the anti-Israel bias in The Independent's coverage of this story.

Link

Neo Conservative said...

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"mark said... excellent piece on the anti-Israel bias"

i'll check it out.

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