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Irish women’s basketball team refused to shake hands with Israel (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Skullgrid 82 points 7 months ago (3 children)

please update the text to indicate the accusations of antisemitism is from one of the israeli players and not due to the actual refusal to shake hands.

, Basketball Ireland said on social media that its players had decided to do away with the usual pre-match courtesies, linking the decision to earlier comments made by Israeli player Dor Saar.

In an interview published on Tuesday by the Israeli Basketball Association, Saar addressed the upcoming match with Ireland. “It’s known that they are quite antisemitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected,” she said. “We talk about it among ourselves. We know they don’t love us and we will leave everything on the field always and in this game especially.”

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everything is antisemetic with Israel. It’s become such a baseless accusation from an Israeli.

Like is there one shred of evidence to back this claim up? A tweet from the coach saying they hate Jewish people?

[–] febra 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Such a stupid take. Just because Ireland doesn't appreciate a settler colonial apartheid state, doesn't mean they have anything against Jewish people. Ireland understandably has these feelings towards what Israel is doing due to their own history with colonial powers invading and oppressing their people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There history goes back a while, but it really took off when the Irish were “terrorists” fighting the British for their land back. And Ireland has continued to support Palestine, as Palestine supported them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Palestine_relations

[–] Rapidcreek -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The only thing I could find was....

Basketball Ireland had put out two statements to address its games with Israel, including one that appeared to address the calls on social media to boycott the event over the October 7 War.

On January 25, they shared that they had expressed "strong concerns" to FIBA Europeat about the games with Israel and raised the option of not playing the games. The federation reportedly responded that Ireland would be subject to a fine of €100,000 and barred from the Women’s EuroBasket 2025 and 2027 Qualifiers.

That and the Irish got beat 87 to 57.

It's always unfortunate when sports are overshadowed by politics.

[–] Skullgrid 0 points 7 months ago

You can find my quoted text in the article linked in the post you are meant to be discussing.

Did you come here to discuss the headline or just shit post bias?

[–] Viking_Hippie -3 points 7 months ago

Your mystery source calling the ongoing genocide "the October 7 war" reveals it as deliberately anti-Palestinian in its framing and as such not a reliable source for objective reporting on the topic.