France Unbowed MP sparks outrage by saying Israeli Olympians not welcome

emergencyfood , 1 hour ago

Genociders shouldn’t be welcome at the Olympics. Why is that controversial?

TheMightyCanuck , 1 hour ago

Basé

anachronist , 1 hour ago

Vive La France

PanArab , 2 hours ago

Good. Each and every one of them served in the genocidal army, they are all complicit.

lemmyseizethemeans , 2 hours ago

Based.

brown567 , 3 hours ago

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geneva_convenience , 4 hours ago

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CliveRosfield , 4 hours ago

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autotldr Bot , 4 hours ago

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An MP for the radical-left France Unbowed party has sparked outrage after saying Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and calling for protests against their presence.

Yonathan Arfi, the head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), described the comments as “indecent” and “irresponsible”, accusing Portes of “putting a target on the backs of Israeli athletes”.

Arfi reminded the MP that 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics and said the country’s Olympians were “already the most in danger” at the Games.

Portes later told Le Parisien newspaper that French diplomats should put pressure on the International Olympic Committee to ban the Israeli flag and anthem at the Games, which open on Friday, “as is done for Russia”.

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said: “The hints of antisemitism in his [Portes’] comments are obvious.”

Israel’s football team is scheduled to play its first match of the Olympics against Mali in Paris’s Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony.

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