Pro-Palestine activists disrupt five NHL games across the US

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Pro-Palestine activists disrupted five National Hockey League games across the US on November 6 and 7, demanding an immediate end to US financial support for Israel. Before security removed them, protesters displayed banners as part of a coordinated action at arenas in Buffalo, Washington, DC, Nashville, Los Angeles and Seattle. Messages included “Israel kills” and “Fund American schools, not Israeli bombs”. “Sports have long been a platform for political protest: from Muhammad Ali’s opposition to the Vietnam War and Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 Olympic podium protest to Colin Kaepernick taking a knee and NFL player Azeez Al-Shaair speaking out for Palestinians,” organisers said in a statement shared with TRT World. Protesters said the action aimed to “draw public attention to the billions of dollars in US military assistance flowing to Israel and challenge the political prioritie…

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