Posted on 04/30/2015 12:57:56 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israelis appear to have been banned from buying tickets to see the Paris St. Germain soccer team in action, NRG reported Sunday night.
The discovery was made by an Israeli couple planning a trip to Paris who wanted to attend a game – and could not find a listing for Israeli orders on the group's ticket ordering web site.
Guy Schleider of Ramat Gan perused the team's web site and went to the ticket buying area, where a drop-down list allowed residents of countries around the world to choose their home countries where tickets would be sent to.
Included on that list are the “occupied Palestinian territories,” as the site describes Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria – but not Israel, which was nowhere to be found on the list.
Schleider told the site that he later discovered why: the owner of Paris St. Germain is Sheikh Nasser al-Khalifi of Qatar, who is chairman of the company that owns the French team, as well as Barcelona's soccer club.
Contacted by NRG, French parliament member Meir Haviv said that he was very surprised to hear about Israel's exclusion from the sales list, and that he planned to act to change that immediately.
“If Israelis can truly not purchase tickets, this is outright discrimination, and is illegal,” he said. “This is a very important issue. I am a big fan of sports in general and soccer in particular. This cannot be allowed to continue.”
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It’s a gay sport anyway.
Pick yer battles!
Hitler is alive and well.
Hitler is alive and well.
I was making a joke.
If you look at my posting record, you’ll see I’m a major supporter of Israel, have been my whole life and have posted as such consistently in my 14 years on FR.
Sorry if I offended your obvious very strong and touchy love of soccer.
No, really, I love sitting there for 2 solid hours (or whatever) watching them run up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down the field and sometimes ending in a 0-0 tie. Gee, that’s a great use of my time.
You are right. Hitler is alive and well. And his supporters are in the White House.
>> Anti-semitism is rising across the world - but that’s ok.
That and anti-Christianity. And it’s the Caucasians facilitating if not expressing.
And in Europe and in Middle East.
He’s bigger now than when he was alive.
It will be American Christians and Israelis against several continents.
Marxism requires a Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Obama type dictator.
Pray America is waking
If the French had any sense of self preservation they’d ban the muzzies.
Indeed! The most exciting part of a soccer game is the riot afterward by the fans of the losing team.
As played in schools in the US, sure. In the rest of the world, it’s a rough, tough sport, but I left
Buffalo NY in part because I have no interest in sports.
Yeah. They should replace it with something more manly, like gladiators fighting to the death. Think of the riots they’d have after one of those.
One team or another will win by one goal or another, depending on which team owner put up the biggest bribe this week.
Smart money is on the Sheikh.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
Now that I think of it, even the biggest anti-Semite could find a way to welcome Israelis to gladiator games; as contestants in the pits. How quaint. How Roman. How very European;-)
The colt has left the barn. Too late to shut the door. The French would ban them if they could, but I don’t think the gendarmes could enforce it. The Muzzies control the streets, from what I’ve heard.
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