Mixing Sport and Politics - The Sporting Boycott of Israel with Rebecca O'Keeffe
Channel: IrelandPSC
Date: 2024-04-04

Voices from the Palestine Solidarity Movement #2: Rebecca O'Keeffe explains how sport and politics are always mixed, and why an international sporting boycott of Israel is a moral imperative. 

Rebecca O’Keeffe is a peace activist, author, and researcher. Her book, ‘Yalla Feminists: Arab Rights and Resistance’ written with Lina AbiRafeh, documents feminist resistance movements in the Arab region. She has spent a number of years working, living, travelling in the region, including Palestine. As a former international basketball player, she is also a member of Irish Sport for Palestine, having initiated the call for the senior Irish women’s basketball team to cancel their fixtures against Israel. 

Camera: Martin Moji
Production: Abdaal Salim
Interviewer: Abdaal Salim

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