Palestinian Jordanians and native Bedouins clash at soccer match in Jordan – Palestinian loyalty questioned but they say they face Glass-ceiling

Wehdat [Palestinian] beat Faisali [Jordanian Bedouin tribes] 1-0 in a crucial game at Amman stadium and fans clashed afterwards 'injuring 250 people [mostly from a fence collapse] in violence that pointed to the deep divisions between the nation's native Bedouin clans and its Palestinians.'

There are an estimated 1.8 million Palestinians in Jordan and they 'complain that they are barred from taking up security and army posts or holding other top positions in the Jordanian government.'

'Native Jordanians feel the Palestinian refugees have no allegiance to the country.'

'In a match last year between the same teams, Faisali fans chanted slogans deriding the Palestinian origin of King Abdullah II's wife, Queen Rania, and their son Crown Prince Hussein'.


Source: AP


Comments: Loyalty of Muslims questioned by other Muslims so can't blame it on 'racism' or 'Islamophobia' here.

This from a previous article might have something to with it.

Arab peoples tend to place too much trust in “institutions rooted in primordial loyalties, notably kinship, clanism and religion.” [United Nations Arab Human Development Report, 2009]

These are complex issues that needs to be discussed openly but the debate is always shut down by automatically calling it 'racism', 'xenophobia', 'Islamophobia', 'insensitive' and all sorts of other simplistic labels.

For a bit of past history, in 1970 during 'Black September' in Jordan, there were armed clashes between Palestinians and Jordanians.


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