they're allowed to speak and they're allowed to talk about the stuff that's, you know, not, that's kind of political.

But it's only directed towards the proper targets.

I mean, how often have we heard about human rights and labor rights and all these things about Qatat?

And that's not to say that there isn't like a good faith argument to make about that and about the upcoming World Cup in Saudi Arabia.

But we heard about it all the time.

And now, you know, there's a genocide happening,

and they literally used one of Gaza's football stadiums

as a concentration camp, and there are pictures of that.

And yeah, most journalists are just not,

it's like it doesn't happen.

Their hand is in the sand.

So it's very frustrating to see it, unfortunately.

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Mike Dissie Street podcast.

Today, we're going to do something a little bit different than the last few months

and talk sort of about go back.

So we had a previous episode to talk about football and sports politics on the question

of Palestine.

And we're very happy to have with us today, Basil O'Maddad, who is the creator of football

Palestine and he's an international football pundit who writes about the intersectionality of football.

His work as a journalist has been featured in the BBC, the Totally Football Podcast, the New Arab, The Guardian, and many other kind of venues.

And you can follow him, and I highly encourage you to follow him on his Twitter handle, which is at Football Palestine, F-U-T-B-O-L-Palistan.

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