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The Price of Solidarity: Palestine, Indonesia and the ‘Human Rights’ Dilemma
When I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of the Under-20 World Cup, scheduled from May 20 to June 11 in Indonesian cities, some readers were unimpressed.
- Ramzy Baroud
- CounterPunch
Though any news related to Palestine and Israel often generates two sharply different kinds of responses, the latest act of Indonesian solidarity with the Palestinian people failed to impress even some pro-Palestine activists in the west.
Their rationale had nothing to do with Palestine or Israel, but the…