A French hard-left MP sparked a political row Sunday by saying Israeli athletes were not welcome at the Paris Olympics because of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which one senior minister said had "hints of anti-Semitism".In a post on X, Arfi branded Portes's comments "irresponsible" and accused him of "legitimising Hamas", the Palestinian militant group whose October 7 attacks on Israel sparked the Gaza war.
  • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
    43·
    2 months ago

    Israel is an apartheid state, currently committing genocide. Why do they get to go to the Eurovision and the Olympics when Russia, another state engaging in genocide, don’t? Israel doesn’t deserve to go to the Olympics. It’s really as simple as that.

    Sometimes decisions are incorrect.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, Russia isn’t out of the Olympics for any of the horrendous policies or the whole war thing, its because they dope like they breathe and got caught swapping samples headed to the lab. Israel hasn’t tried any of that stuff (yet), so they’re still A-OK 🙄

      • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        The commentators have repeatedly said Russia and Belarus are both banned this year due to the invasion of Ukraine.

        Just, They dope like crazy but I guess in Olympic speak that just means they can’t fly the Russian flag.