8-25-2016 Match the Fine For Palestine: The Higher You Build Your Barriers, the Taller We Become - Abby Zimet Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/08/25/match-fine-palestine-higher-you-build-your-barriers-taller-we-become

In what one admirer calls "a brilliant generous gesture... telling Palestinians they have not been forgotten," activist fans of Scotland's Celtics soccer team - the working-class, historically progressive community already facing punishment for flying Palestinian flags at a recent game against Israel to protest the Occupation - have launched a defiant fundraiser to match their likely upcoming fine, thus "hugging tighter" an oppressed population with which they've long felt a kinship. The Celtics plan to give the proceeds - their original goal of $20,000 quickly grew to a flood of about $200,000 - to two Palestinian charitable groups…

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