Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast, brought to you by The Nation magazine. This week, I'm so excited to play this interview for you. We speak to Rebecca O'Keefe. And Rebecca O'Keefe helped spark an international firestorm within the world of sports when she called on the Irish women's basketball team to boycott its February 8th match against Israel.

Now I don't want to say too much about it because I introduce her and explain the whole background,

but this is a story that made waves around the world.

We're living in a time, of course, where Palestinian lives have been dehumanized to such a profound degree by Israel

and the United States that voices like Rebecca O'Keeffe's are so important. So please listen,

check it out. Rebecca O'Keefe, Edge of Sports Podcast, brought to you by The Nation magazine.

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whole thing gone dead, let's go ahead and take it dead.

Meet me on the edge.

Welcome to Edge of Sports, the TV show, brought to you by the Real News Network.

I'm Dave Ziren. This week we are speaking with someone at the heart of a massive international sports story. Her name is Rebecca O'Keefe, and the world's sporting powers lost it when she started the call for the Irish basketball women's team to boycott their February 8th game against Israel in protest of the continued

onslaught in Gaza. Then the Israeli team called them anti-Semitic for even raising the boycott call,

and the Irish players who did not boycott were so insulted they refused to shake hands with

their Israeli opponents, which caused more outrage in Israel than the mass killings in Gaza themselves.

It's a lot to unpack, but fortunately, she is here to explain it.

She's a former international basketball player, currently with Irish Sport for Palestine.

Let's bring her on Rebecca O'Keefe.

Rebecca O'Keefe, thank you so much for joining us here on Edge of Sports.

Hi, thanks for having me.

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