Nails 150 associations Catalans, supported by political parties of the autonomous community such as ERC, the Comuns and the CUP, have called for a demonstration and have demanded the cancellation of the Barcelona – Maccabi Tel Aviv corresponding to matchday 10 of the regular phase of the Euroleague … which will be played next day six at 8:30 p.m. at the Palau.
These groupings, including ‘LaFede.cat’, the ‘Syndicate of Lloggaters’ and ‘SOS Racism Catalonia’, as well as unions CCOO y UGT and some Barça clubs have published a manifesto in which they consider it insufficient for the duel to be played behind closed doors and ask that it not be played.
“Normalize the genocide against the Palestinian people” or “sport cannot be neutral in contexts like this” are some of the proclamations that can be read in the text, in which its signatories reject the arrival of the Israeli team that, after a long exile in Serbia, has returned to its country since December 1 to play at home.
Despite the pressure, it seems almost impossible for the meeting to be cancelled. In October, the situation was very similar. He Baxi Manresa and Hapoel Jerusalem, the Valencia Basket and Hapoel Tel-Aviv and The Tenerife Lagoon and Bnei Herzliya were also cornered by similar associations, despite the fact that in the end the matches were played completely normally although without fans in the stands.
