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TODMORROW two community Gaelic football teams plan to come together to make a powerful show of solidarity with Palestine before their keenly anticipated cup final.
The delayed 2023 Scottish Intermediate final of traditional Irish sport Gaelic football will be contested between fierce rivals Dalriada CLG of Aberdeen/Dundee and Tir Chonaill Harps of Glasgow. Both clubs are constituted primarily of recent immigrants and members of the Irish diaspora.
The squads will be putting sporting ambition and antagonisms aside however to add their voices to the ever-growing list of community organisations speaking out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
This time it is joined by famed Amazon union organiser Chris Smalls and the new vessel, the Handala, will carry baby formula for Gaza’s starving children just weeks after Israeli forces abducted the Madleen’s crew in international waters, reports ANA VRACAR
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions