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Monday, April 06, 2015

Goal.com Arabic site calls all of Israel "Occupied Palestinian Territories"

Goal.com says that over 64 million football fans keep up on the sport using their website.

The ones that read the site in Arabic are also fed a diet of anti-Israel propaganda.

A recent example is the caption on this photo which says "Saturday, March 28, 2015, Sammy Offer Stadium, Haifa - the occupied territories |Wales showed their intention to run for the UEFA Cup 2016 finals for the first time in history when they defeated the Zionist entity team in the fields of the city of Haifa in the occupied territories with three straight goals, and this was the first Zionist loss in the playoffs..."

This 2013 article refers to the UEFA under-21 championships held in Israel as happening in "Palestine" and in the "occupied Palestinian territories."

There were many such examples when talking about that tournament.

This article from last summer talks about how "Zionist" teams like Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beersheva would not be able to play in the "occupied Palestinian territories" because of "Palestinian Hamas shelling."

This 2014 article talks about about Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko missing Bosnia's UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier against "the Zionist enemy" in the "Arab" city of Jerusalem.

Goal.com is owned by the Perform Group, which is part of Access Industries. You can contact them via their email form here. Their international site Twitter account is @goal_intl and their American Twitter account is @GoalUSA. (Australia: @GoalAustralia, Canada: @GoalCDA...)

(h/t Shawarma News)