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Posted on 07/22/2024 3:20:04 AM PDT by Cronos
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.
Citing Israel’s war in Gaza, Thomas Portes told a pro-Palestinian gathering in Paris on Saturday: “We are just a few days away from an international event to be held in Paris, the Olympic Games. And I’m here to say that no, the Israeli delegation is not welcome in Paris. Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Olympic Games in Paris. We have to use this deadline and all the levers we have to mobilise.”
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”.
...His comments drew criticism from other politicians. Karen Taieb, one of Paris’s deputy mayors, said Portes was “a danger and a disgrace”. “What we expect from our elected representatives is the idea of joining together. These people are advocating hatred,” Taieb wrote on X.
The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said: “The hints of antisemitism in his [Portes’] comments are obvious.”
The Socialist MP Jérôme Guedj posted on X: “Of course Israeli athletes are welcome, like all athletes from all over the world. Not for who they are, but for what they do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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You get the government that gets Stolen
Who gives a F#CK about the Olympics? The world is on fire and our countries government tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Doesn’t anyone understand what we have become? These mother F@ckers are going to push to far and our heals are over the edge now!
Hints?! I think we are well past hints.
I hope security is airtight. No repeat of 1972.
The Olympics? I don’t care.
Who would dare swim in the Seine?
NBC Universal cares.
They’re gonna lose their shirts if people refuse to watch.
I’m wondering how much of this is an attempt to gin up ratings...
You would need to be in Seine
The Olympics are going to be another foul shitshow for the world to see.
The west has ruined itself and it is the people who pay the price.
Don’t count on it. France has become a disgrace right along other western used to be nations.
I asked for that, didn’t I?
The last summer games of the Olympics I watched any part of was London in 2012 and Sochi in 2014 for the winter games. Paris will continue my streak of not watching anything and zero interest beyond commenting on threads here on FR.
Black Septembrists will be coming out of their rabbit holes
I’ll leave this here for you. Don’t watch the Paris Olympics from Friday, July 26 until Sunday, August 11. I will be joining you in not watching.
It won’t be long before the Arc de Triiomphe in Paris will become the Islamic Arc de Triomphe.
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