Dana AlKurd (Dana Al-Kurd) — episode contributor on Palestine
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So let's get into it.
Palestine did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
The Palestinian national football team was nowhere near Doha in an official capacity.
And yet, Arabs from across the region and across the world began referring to Palestine then as the 33rd team, because Palestine was everywhere at the 2022 World Cup.
There were Palestinian flags draped over shoulders in stadiums.
Crowds erupted into chants of Maltini, the Palestinian anthem, after Arab teams won.
One Tunisian fan ran onto the pitch mid-match for the Palestinian flag.
And when Morocco pulled off their historic upset against Spain, the first African and Arab team to ever reach the semifinals of a World Cup, Moroccan players ran to the crowd and held up the Palestinian flag.
This was significant.
Morocco had just signed the Abraham Accords with Israel only two years prior to this game, and their players didn't seem to care.
Israeli journalists who traveled to Qatar to cover the tournament reported being coldly received, followed, and in some cases physically shut out of interviews by crowds of Arab fans.
Some of these reporters were caught on camera claiming to be from other countries like France or Switzerland in order to get people to talk to them.
Some of them masked their logos from their stations.
Israeli media at the time expressed something between confusion and outrage.
One reporter remarked, and I'm paraphrasing here, but he basically said that the hostility wasn't just coming from governments as they had assumed, it was coming from ordinary people.
And this surprised them, but it shouldn't have.
Now, none of this was purely spontaneous.
That's the part of the story I find most interesting and the part that gets maybe the least attention.
Months before the World Cup began, a Qatari activist group called Qatari Youth Opposed to Normalization, Q-A-Y-O-N, started planning.
They were founded in 2011, and by 2022, led predominantly by Qatari women.
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