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‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe More than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit “We are more than a national team, we represent a story of pain but also hope,” Ihab Abu Jazar said, “and we are not alone.” At 8.26pm on Saturday the Palestine coach, whose father was killed in the Israel-Gaza war and whose siblings now live in tents in Khan Younis, emerged from the tunnel and took his place by the bench at San Mamés, Bilbao. Dressed in black, a keffiyeh over his shoulders, he watched 11 men in red, “a team of refugees playing for Palestinians all over the world”, and listened to 51,396 people applaud them, chanting for their freedom. “We don’t play just to win; we play to exist,” he had said in the days before Palestine played their first game in Europe, an occasion that turned out to be bigger than even he had imagined: “The most important day in my life”, a “historic” night that “all the words in the world can’t explain”. They didn’t win – they were a goal down within four minutes and lost 3-0 against the Basque national team – but they competed, and it wasn’t about that. In fact, when Zaid Qunbar looked like he might equalise after 12 minutes the whole of this vast stadium cheered him on, roaring the opposition striker running towards their goal. Continue reading...

‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe

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Morning.

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On Politics: The Online Right (and Left) Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 1h 15m

‘It's easy to say Reform are very inexperienced, they've got a lot of people in councils now, but they don't know what they're doing. But that's where the four years is in their favour.’

Alan Finlayson and James Butler on the online right, on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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