Three Palestinian footballers have been killed in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82412&sectionid=3510211

Kettering Town is a football team owned by a Muslim. Some of their games have also been taken off the TV schedules because they wear the wrong shirt. Sir Victor Blank the Chairman of Lloyds Bank is also a friend of the Prime Minister and his wife. Blank helped his friend Brown out at short notice by taking over HBOS in the recent banking collapse.
http://www.olivecoop.com/palestine-uk-links-and-news/kettering-town-fc-fighting-lloyds-tsb-from-trying-to-crush-interpal/

My brother’s open letter to the UK Foreign Secretary when the Palestinian football team were refused visas to play here in 2007.
http://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=2

“I am opposed and have been opposed [to divestment] for many years, in fact, I’ve probably been the leading opponent for years of the campaign for divestment from Israel and of the campaign about academic boycotts.”

–from Chomsky’s Gift, Harvard Crimson 12/12/01
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=255842

JUAN GONZALEZ: Noam Chomsky, for Americans who want to figure out how to move now with the new Obama administration to end these atrocities that are occurring in the Middle East, what do you suggest? And also, what’s your viewpoint of the divestment movement? Many young people are urging something similar to South Africa, to begin pressing increasingly for divestment from Israel.

NOAM CHOMSKY: The position that people who are interested in peace ought to take is very straightforward. I mean, a majority of the American population, considerable majority, already agree with the full Arab League peace plan, not the little sliver of it that Obama mentioned. The peace plan calls for a two-state settlement on the international border, maybe with minor modifications. That’s an overwhelming national consensus. The Hamas supports it. Iran has said, you know, they’ll go along with it.

AMY GOODMAN: Noam, we only have thirty seconds.

NOAM CHOMSKY: OK, so we should push for that.

Is divestment a proper tactic? Well, you know, if you look back at South Africa, divestment became a proper tactic after years, decades of education and organizing, to the point where Congress was legislating against trade, corporations were pulling out, and so on. That’s what’s missing: the education and organizing which makes it an understandable move. And, in fact, if we ever got to that point, you wouldn’t even need it, because the US could be brought in line with international opinion.

AMY GOODMAN: Noam Chomsky, we want to thank you very much for being with us. And from all of us at Democracy Now!, condolences on the death of Carol, your wife of more than half a century.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Thanks, Noam. Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.