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Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine | Stories of Resistance
Chile’s Club Deportivo Palestino is a soccer team founded more than a century ago by Palestinian immigrants in Santiago, Chile. Chile is home to the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middle East: half a million people.
The team wears the country’s colors: white, green and red. In the stands, fans wear them too, as well as keffiyehs, the black-and-white scarves that represent Palestinian identity and resistance. Their slogan is: “More than a team, it is an entire people.”
The team, the players, and the fans have remained outspoken in defense of Palestine. And outspoken against the…
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