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.
They’re violating the Olympic truce.
They banned Russia for it. Why not Israel?
Obviously, because being the target of a genocide 80 years ago gives you a free pass to do whatever you want forever. Russia’s problem is that they’ve never been hit with a genocide themselves, so they don’t get a free pass. /S
You know, all things aside, it’s kinda sad people don’t even remember anymore that the Nazis weren’t just after Jews.
Haven’t they hit themselves with genocides about half a dozen times or so in their history…?
“And then things got worse” and all that…
Or do you only get a free pass if the genocide wasn’t self inflicted…?
They ironically got hit with a genocide from the same people who did it to the Jews. Twenty-seven million dead at the hands of the nazis.
That wasn’t a genocide, though, at least on the Nazis’ part, it was just war… (now, Stalin deciding who to send to that meat grinder could have been a tad genocidal, but if I recall correctly they practically ended up sending anyone available, so probably not…)
Because there are still a lot of genocidal apologists that influence political opinion. Especially in the US.
Perhaps it is not considered a war?
It’s a special ethnic adjustment operation.