Starting next weekend, several large European teams will land in Israel within a week, and will hold exhibition matches, including an official one - in Israel.
The Israeli audience is enthusiastic, the Palestinian neighbors less so.
With the help of the BDS organizations, the heads of Palestinian football are calling on those teams, led by the French champions PSG, not to come to Israel and boycott it.
Football fans in the Palestinian League,
They accuse Israel of apartheid and military violence, which, among other things, harms Palestinian football, and they try to put pressure on the six foreign teams that will land in Israel.
"Please, write to all the teams, PSG, Atlético Madrid, Juventus, Tottenham, Roma and Nantes, who are expected to hold games in the apartheid state of Israel - and call on them to withdraw and not attend," BDS encourages anyone interested.
The Uruguayan national team, which is supposed to arrive before the World Cup in the winter for a warm-up game against the Israeli national team, is expected to receive a letter of this type.
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