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Israeli ice hockey team barred from world championships over 'safety concerns'
i24NEWS ^ | January 11, 2024 at 10:05 AM latest revision January 11, 2024 at 11:18 AM | i24NEWS Staff

Posted on 01/11/2024 10:22:25 AM PST by af_vet_1981

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) cited "safety and security" concerns as the grounds for its decision to exclude the Israeli team from all competitions, a move that has stirred controversy and accusations of antisemitism.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism

1 posted on 01/11/2024 10:22:25 AM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: af_vet_1981

Maybe they should ban the Muslim countries rather than Israel


2 posted on 01/11/2024 10:24:16 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: af_vet_1981

The old “abundance of caution” BS.


3 posted on 01/11/2024 10:26:18 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: falcon99

Exactly.


4 posted on 01/11/2024 10:26:25 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: falcon99

“ban the Muslim countries”

No kidding. Except the Islamists would infiltrate like they did in 1972 in Munich.


5 posted on 01/11/2024 10:26:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: af_vet_1981

I’d love to see teams from Israel’s allies to stay the hell home.


6 posted on 01/11/2024 10:26:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: af_vet_1981

When Ann Coulter and Ben Shapiro were prevented from speaking at a university after college students shouted and chanted all night with placards “No Room For Hate On Campus” broke hundreds of building windows, set dumpster fires and overturned and burned a police car, the president said “Our number one concern is for the safety of our students. We are canceling the speaking engagements out of caution.”

Note: I am not a follower of either of them-—just a fan of freedom of speech.

Coulter used the term “mob veto” which I hadn’t heard before——but now see all over the place.


7 posted on 01/11/2024 10:27:34 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: falcon99

There you go. I wonder why the boneheads didn’t think of that.


8 posted on 01/11/2024 10:27:39 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: af_vet_1981

Steven Spielberg’s film Munich (1985) about the slaughter of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics is about the tracking down of the Muslim terrorists. A secretive group helping the Israeli agents had a leader who said “We don’t like governments. We work on our own.”


9 posted on 01/11/2024 10:31:43 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: falcon99

In a rational world, yes. But, here we are in demented Clown World instead.
🤡🌎


10 posted on 01/11/2024 10:32:07 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: falcon99

You always support evil over good.


11 posted on 01/11/2024 10:51:47 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: falcon99

Muslims play hockey?


12 posted on 01/11/2024 10:52:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Not as bad as the Polish hockey team.....

They drowned in spring training.


13 posted on 01/11/2024 10:59:33 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: af_vet_1981

Unfortunately this is a valid concern. An Israeli team is going to be in danger from Muslims anywhere they go. The Muslims won’t balk at killing infidels in the process either. That would be a bonus for the head choppers


14 posted on 01/11/2024 11:22:44 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Ronald77

“You always support evil over good.”

I support evil over good? Either you are an idiot or you don’t know how to write.


15 posted on 01/11/2024 11:31:44 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: af_vet_1981

Shouldn’t that be up to the Israelis to decide?


16 posted on 01/11/2024 11:36:59 AM PST by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: dfwgator

Muslims play hockey?

How can they carry a hockey stick and a AK at the same time?


17 posted on 01/11/2024 11:45:02 AM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: dfwgator

“Muslims play hockey?”

No, they play ice polo on camels. It is an amazing thing to see.


18 posted on 01/11/2024 12:22:03 PM PST by bosco24
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To: Texas resident
No, they speak "hock-ee".

If you can't compete on your own, just have your competition barred from competing. Has a ring of familiarity, doesn't it?

19 posted on 01/11/2024 12:25:07 PM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: af_vet_1981

The Terrorist Veto.


20 posted on 01/11/2024 1:16:11 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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