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Israeli youth team banned from sports competition after being targeted with vandalism
Arutz Sheva ^ | 7/8/24 | Yitzi Goldberg

Posted on 08/07/2024 10:48:39 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

An Israeli delegation has been banned from a youth ultimate frisbee competition in Belgium after they were targeted by anti-Israel protests and vandalism.

According to the ultimate frisbee site Ultiworld, the Israeli delegation to the U-17 European Youth Ultimate Championships in Ghent, Belgium, consisted of two teams, competing in the open and mixed divisions. From the get-go, the organizers of the competition were met with heavy pressure due to the Israeli participation.

Shortly before the competition was set to begin, the Ghent city council and police decided to ban the Israeli teams from playing in the city due to a fear of protests stating that the team's safety "could not be guaranteed.” As a result, Israel's games were moved to the nearby town of De Pinte.

The night before the competition, anti-Israel activists vandalized the building in De Pinte, where the Israeli team was supposed to play, with red paint. According to Belgian newspaper De Standaard, they left behind the slogan 'boycott Israel now' and claimed responsibility for the action in an anonymous statement. "The Palestinian community of Ghent and pro-Palestinian people are furious," it said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banned; belgium; euronazis; frizbee; gaza; ghent; hamas; islamofascism; islamofascists; israel; israeliteam; koranimals; targeted; waronterror
Are we through the looking glass, or down the rabbit hole? This is seriously bizzarro. They are targeted, and therefore they are punished for being targeted.
1 posted on 08/07/2024 10:48:39 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Pretty much confirms that the Belgian authorities are in league with the anarchists.


2 posted on 08/07/2024 10:49:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Anarchotyranny: It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.


3 posted on 08/07/2024 10:53:06 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Punishing the innocent, as always.


4 posted on 08/07/2024 10:54:03 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: BenLurkin

Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards.


5 posted on 08/07/2024 10:54:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

First they were welcomed guests, then they were disinvited for being targeted, the heckler’s veto. No wonder the Belgians are famous for their waffles. They’re not anarchists, they’re cowards.


6 posted on 08/07/2024 10:55:32 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

They are most infamous for what King Leopold did in The Congo.


7 posted on 08/07/2024 10:56:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Belgium is the center of the EU Caliphate


8 posted on 08/07/2024 10:58:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Eleutheria5

This sort of thing happens a lot and is a good indication of the political leaning of “the authorities”.

Example: In Britain, in the 1930s, the British Union of Fascists actually had a fair amount of political power. They liked Hitler [shrug]. So British communists would go to the fascist rallies and start fights. Lots of violence. All started by the communists. So the British government stepped in and imposed extreme restrictions on the British Union of Fascists.

Hey, I’m not defending the fascists at all. But the government saw violence committed by communists, the government supported that violence, and the government punished the people being victimized by the violence.

Here, we have Jews being victims of vandalism, and the Belgian government jumps into action and punishes the Jews.

It’s not hard to see who really runs the world.


9 posted on 08/07/2024 11:03:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: Eleutheria5

It reminds me of the scene in the movie Patton where the town council at Bergen-Belsen comes to the conquering Patton to say the locals might be disturbed by a Jewish religious service. Patton responds with fury and instructs that they would go right ahead with their service. If only the Ghent city council had one sou of the decency.


10 posted on 08/07/2024 11:06:44 AM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: Eleutheria5

So, the Belgians waffled.


11 posted on 08/07/2024 11:27:51 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
LOL.

I hope they have enough whipped cream and strawberries to go with that waffling.

12 posted on 08/07/2024 11:32:01 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The elites are delusional if they think that over time they are going to convert Muslims to decadent consumerism and low wage service jobs.

They did a good job on Christians, but it took them centuries. I don't think they'll have as much luck with the Friends of Mohammad.

13 posted on 08/07/2024 11:35:33 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I checked. This is not from Babylon Bee.


14 posted on 08/07/2024 11:44:34 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dfwgator

https://youtu.be/eaLLRIvWz4M?si=Dcrg1aG7xUmsH7hU


15 posted on 08/07/2024 11:47:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: I want the USA back

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. “Innocent”? Those...people were Israelis, and they were even proud of it! That makes them guilty of anything that anyone accuses them of, because...because they are! They even tricked us into letting their airplane land in Belgium! And...and letting them disembark and throw their Frizbee around! Chutzpah! Someone could have been hurt.


16 posted on 08/07/2024 11:47:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: gitmo

They should be informed. This’d be a great parody.


17 posted on 08/07/2024 11:48:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Ah, the brilliant Belgiums, ban the victims and not catch and punish the perps. Yup, that’s brilliant — and weak.


18 posted on 08/07/2024 11:50:09 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: falcon99

Great short story by Peretz, originally in Yiddish, called The Shabbos Goy. Very apropos.


19 posted on 08/07/2024 11:51:33 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Left has always had “The Heckler’s Veto”.


20 posted on 08/07/2024 12:03:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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