How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl

by | Feb 10, 2025 | World

On Sunday night amid the spectacle of the Super Bowl halftime show, a performer raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an event as meticulously controlled as the Super Bowl, his interruption was brief, quickly handled by security, and not shown on the live broadcast. But the moment itself, fleeting as it was, was deeply symbolic.It reflected the resolve of the Sudanese and Palestinian people to break through the censorship of their narratives imposed by mainstream platforms and speak out. It was yet another example of how, when faced with systematic suppression, they have ingeniously found cracks in the system to make their voices heard.
Indeed, for more than a year, Sudanese and Palestinian people have made every effort to speak up. They have protested, organised and risked their lives to bring attention to their struggles. But the world has refused to listen.
This wasn’t the first time the Super Bowl was a backdrop for the erasure of their suffering. Last year, while millions of Americans were watching the game, Israel carried out a massacre, killing at least 67 Palestinians in a matter of hours in Rafah – an area designated as a “safe zone” by the Israeli army where 1.4 million Palestinians were sheltering. The timing was no accident. Israel knew that American media would be too distracted to pay attention and too complicit to care. Advertisement
And many of us as activists knew t …

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