FK Bodø/Glimt announces donation after thrashing Maccabi Tel Aviv at home
Norwegian football club FK Bodo/Glimt has announced it is donating the ticket revenue from its home Europa League match against Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Red Cross/Crescent in Gaza. The club said that it is giving the whole 735,000 NOK – around £52,000 –
And the icing on the cake was that the Norwegian club trounced the Israeli outfit with fascist, racist thugs for fans, by three goals to one in what the Glimt’s general manager and chair called on Friday:
A delicious and important victory.
Frode Thomassen, general manager and Inge Henning Andersen, chairman of FK Bodø/Glimt .
The pair went on:
We have said it before, and we will say it again: Glimt cannot, nor will it, be unaffected by the suffering and violations of international law that are unfolding in other parts of the world…
…Through Action Now, we in Bodø/Glimt have committed ourselves to contributing to actions that create pride – far beyond the football field. Now we want to show that we put action behind the words. All the ordinary ticket revenues from the home game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, we will donate to the Red Cross and earmark relief work in the Gaza Strip. It amounts to NOK 735,000 and is donated by all of us.
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For a club from a town with a population about the same as Fleetwood, Bodo have had some surreal results this season. They’ve beaten Porto, Besiktas and Braga, and ran united close at Old Trafford.
Given their location (within the arctic circle) , I guess the only reason the tel aviv vermin didn’t kick off there is because they didn’t take (m)any ‘fans’ with them.
But fair play to Bodo; that’s a fantastic gesture, one that ought to been replicated by a few of the ‘big boys’** .
I wish them every success 💪💪💪
**better still would be the expulsion of all israeli clubs and the national side from uefa.
How about *ALL* of the Big Boys!
I just did a search to see how widely this was reported, and quite a few media outlets have covered it, but I REALLY didn’t expect to come across any MSM outlets in the results, but I DID – the Daily Mirror:
Bodo/Glimt’s ‘sensational’ gesture speaks volumes after Europa League clash
Bodo/Glimt decided to show support to Palestinians affected by the conflict between Israel and Palestine by sending their matchday revenue to the Red Cross working in the Gaza Strip – which amounts to £52,200
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/bodo-glimt-gesture-europa-league-34598692
Good onya… And hopefully it was in the hard-copy newspaper too.
PS But please share this skwawkbox article far and wide, and ask the people you share it with to share it with as many people as possible, and so on. Millions of people should be made aware of this.
Let’s see Liverpool or Arsenal do this. Fat chance! The only British club likely to follow this example, of course, would be Celtic.
Libpewl fc?
Them godawful mingebags wanted the government to pay their (non-playing) staff’s wages on the furlough scheme during covid. 😕
Meanwhile, in New York the other side of the coin……
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/31/nyu-gaza-protesters-deport-maca-antisemitism/
“Amid the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day of office, one New York University parent saw an opportunity.
Citing an anti-immigration order that included language targeting those who “provide aid, advocacy, or support for foreign terrorists,” Elizabeth Rand posted a call to action on January 21.
“We now have a signed executive order authorizing the deportation of foreign students who support Hamas,” Rand wrote in a post to a Facebook group called Mothers Against College Antisemitism, which she founded soon after the October 7 attacks. She shared a link to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and urged members to use it to file complaints against university students and faculty. “Please tell everyone you know who is at a university to file complaints about foreign students and faculty who support Hamas.”
It’s the latest effort by Rand and the group to push for crackdowns against college students — a campaign that, by her account, has been hugely influential, especially at NYU.
Earlier this month, NYU suspended 13 students who participated in a December protest at the campus library, where demonstrators staged a sit-in and called on the school to cut its financial ties to Israel. Students were notified of the suspensions on January 7 and given five days to appeal.
In a post to the group last week, Rand played up her role in the suspensions. “I’ll take some credit for this one,” she wrote, and shared an article about the suspensions published on January 23.
Rand, an attorney in New York City, had been in contact with NYU President Linda Mills about the library protest, the screenshots show. In an email to Mills, the text of which Rand shared to her Facebook group, Rand said protesters had violated the school’s code of conduct by blocking building access and were intimidating students. “I just sent you $13,000 the other day. As a parent and a consumer I’m outraged,” she wrote to Mills.”
Money talks, merit walks.
Rand, eh? Say no more…!
I came across the following a few days ago from November 20th last year. Please check it out if you’ve never seen it (and just keep scrolling down and down), it really brings it home to you:
A-Z OF THE CHILDREN ISRAEL KILLED IN GAZA
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/11/20/an-a-z-of-the-children-israel-killed-in-gaza
PS I might have posted this on here a few days ago – I know that I meant to – but I can’t remember whether I did in the end, and I can’t be bothered to check back. Anyway, please share far and wide, because, as I said, it really brings it home.