Basketball Ireland’s statement prior to the start of the game read: “Basketball Ireland informed Fiba Europe yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff – including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of anti-Semitism, published on official Israeli Federation channels – that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents.
“This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the Irish national anthem by our bench rather than centre court.
“Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision.”
This was a difficult position for Basketball Ireland.
They stood off lots of domestic calls to boycott the game only to be treated with bad faith and some grave unsubstantiated claims by Israel Federation officials.
They have to be seen to support their players in the face of smears but didn’t want to boycott the game. I can’t blame them for taking the position they did.
Ireland knows all about getting their land messed with and then gaslighted
The Irish got spanked by the Israelis, but they’ll sleep well tonight knowing that they’re the world champions of virtue signalling.
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That must’ve been the only way for such a team to get international media attention…
Based Irish girls🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸
Pathetic. Glad they lost.
Based Ireland, as always.
Fully understandable because Palestinians contrary to Isrealis are well known for such a strong love and respect for women.
Maybe they’ll get a chance to play an exhibition game in Palestine when all this is over. Oh, wait.
Antisemitic bigotry in support of a bunch of murdering terrorists that wouldn’t even acknowledge these players because of their gender. Genius.
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” Israel player Dor Saar said on Wednesday that the Ireland team is “quite anti-Semitic”. “
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Good. I wouldn’t shake the hands of representants of a disgusting state which commits war crimes as well.
This stupid take is expected from the Irish at this point. Omnipresent tax fraud and being super dumb on Palestine are the flaws I learned to overlook with Ireland to not let it poison my otherwise positive take on the country. I try to keep at it even when I sometimes fail.
UNRWA administrators, Pink Floyd ex-vocalist and Irish people didn’t get the memo that Hamas is a murderous islamists group that was founded by a close friend of bin Laden and stands on the same principles as Al-Qaeda and has staggering support among regular Palestinians.
It’s pointless to point out how braindead their takes on Palestine are. They think it’s the same issue as the one taking place in Northern Ireland and never bother to read a single wiki page.
And then as a bonus, wannabe IRA lunatics will just flood your inbox and start harassing you every time you call our their bs. Happened to me twice before I blocked half a brigade and one dudes alt accounts.
Free palestine. support from Ireland.
I can’t wait for the Olympic Games later this year. It will be a blast. 😅
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Good on them
Good thing they lost. Pathetic.
Good for Ireland
But they would shake hands with the chinese team right?
Don’t want the genocide rubbing off on them
Ireland, the only country with the balls to do the right thing.
Congratulations on this open show of antisemitism hidden behind the face of „supporting Gaza“ fuck off, I pulled any financial relation I had to Irland earlier this year when they refused to call the October attacks a warcrime while calling out Israeli roof knocks as warcrimes. Fuck Irland.
I like Ireland
Good on Ireland
Even saying that there won’t be any handshaking in advance is still bad sportsmanship. If nothing like this happened when Ireland played a British team during the Irish Troubles, their reasoning is beyond me.
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So they responded to accusations of antisemitism by being discriminatory against a team just because they represent Israel, which some people would argue, is antisemitic?
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Messed up.
This sub is actually embarrassing and has been invaded by israeli bots over the last couple of months and overall most people have braindead takes on a conflict that spans 75 yrs . No Palestinian deserves to die and no Jew deserves to die.
Both sides deserve to live in peace but the truth is both sides have been poisoned against each other but another true is one side is funded and supported by the largest economy in the world and its government lobbies have been bought out by israel lobbies to control them and to make sure America keeps sending israel money. American taxpayers literally pay for israeli healthcare. They can barley afford good healthcare for their own why are they paying that.
While Palestinans have had israel displace them from lands their ancestors lived on for generations. Most jews immigrated to the region during the later 1800s and 1900s and many were Ashkenazi. Mizrahi jews only outnumber them now due to higher birth rates, look it up.
Israeli society has been posilned with a victim mindset that everyone is out to get them, arabs, europeans, etc. They’ve been taught to hate just as hitler brainwashed germans to hate jews. Israelis are scared of being replaced just look at how the israeli govt did to ethiopian jews(they steralized their women so they couldnt have black babies)
Israeli arabs are treated as 2nd class citizens and are forced to live in certain parts of israel(sounds awfully similar to jewish ghettos in the 1930s)
Jewish trauma from ww2 formed theie society and this is what was created.
Palestinians trauma and history has created a people willing to fight to the death for freedom and their own.
Both sides were made this way due to , u guessed it colonialism. Specifically UK and US meddeling in the region. They drew the boarders and made falss promises and look how it ended up.
If you are pro-Ukriane u should be pro-palestine. There is no actual other argument but most everyone here is actually just Racisit towards arabs and Islamophobic but what a shock there are secular Palestinians and Christian palestinans too.
And Ireland being pro-Palestine is not a suprise considering they were a former british colony and they have always been against the Uk’s colonialism , so palestine another former english colony will be supported by the latter same how ireland was anti apertheid in south africa in the 80s and 90s
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Basketball Ireland’s statement prior to the start of the game read: “Basketball Ireland informed Fiba Europe yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff – including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of anti-Semitism, published on official Israeli Federation channels – that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents.
“This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the Irish national anthem by our bench rather than centre court.
“Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision.”
This was a difficult position for Basketball Ireland.
They stood off lots of domestic calls to boycott the game only to be treated with bad faith and some grave unsubstantiated claims by Israel Federation officials.
They have to be seen to support their players in the face of smears but didn’t want to boycott the game. I can’t blame them for taking the position they did.
Ireland knows all about getting their land messed with and then gaslighted
The Irish got spanked by the Israelis, but they’ll sleep well tonight knowing that they’re the world champions of virtue signalling.
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That must’ve been the only way for such a team to get international media attention…
Based Irish girls🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸
Pathetic. Glad they lost.
Based Ireland, as always.
Fully understandable because Palestinians contrary to Isrealis are well known for such a strong love and respect for women.
Maybe they’ll get a chance to play an exhibition game in Palestine when all this is over. Oh, wait.
Antisemitic bigotry in support of a bunch of murdering terrorists that wouldn’t even acknowledge these players because of their gender. Genius.
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” Israel player Dor Saar said on Wednesday that the Ireland team is “quite anti-Semitic”. “
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Good. I wouldn’t shake the hands of representants of a disgusting state which commits war crimes as well.
This stupid take is expected from the Irish at this point. Omnipresent tax fraud and being super dumb on Palestine are the flaws I learned to overlook with Ireland to not let it poison my otherwise positive take on the country. I try to keep at it even when I sometimes fail.
UNRWA administrators, Pink Floyd ex-vocalist and Irish people didn’t get the memo that Hamas is a murderous islamists group that was founded by a close friend of bin Laden and stands on the same principles as Al-Qaeda and has staggering support among regular Palestinians.
It’s pointless to point out how braindead their takes on Palestine are. They think it’s the same issue as the one taking place in Northern Ireland and never bother to read a single wiki page.
And then as a bonus, wannabe IRA lunatics will just flood your inbox and start harassing you every time you call our their bs. Happened to me twice before I blocked half a brigade and one dudes alt accounts.
Free palestine. support from Ireland.
I can’t wait for the Olympic Games later this year. It will be a blast. 😅
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Good on them
Good thing they lost. Pathetic.
Good for Ireland
But they would shake hands with the chinese team right?
Don’t want the genocide rubbing off on them
Ireland, the only country with the balls to do the right thing.
Congratulations on this open show of antisemitism hidden behind the face of „supporting Gaza“ fuck off, I pulled any financial relation I had to Irland earlier this year when they refused to call the October attacks a warcrime while calling out Israeli roof knocks as warcrimes. Fuck Irland.
I like Ireland
Good on Ireland
Even saying that there won’t be any handshaking in advance is still bad sportsmanship. If nothing like this happened when Ireland played a British team during the Irish Troubles, their reasoning is beyond me.
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So they responded to accusations of antisemitism by being discriminatory against a team just because they represent Israel, which some people would argue, is antisemitic?
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Messed up.
This sub is actually embarrassing and has been invaded by israeli bots over the last couple of months and overall most people have braindead takes on a conflict that spans 75 yrs . No Palestinian deserves to die and no Jew deserves to die.
Both sides deserve to live in peace but the truth is both sides have been poisoned against each other but another true is one side is funded and supported by the largest economy in the world and its government lobbies have been bought out by israel lobbies to control them and to make sure America keeps sending israel money. American taxpayers literally pay for israeli healthcare. They can barley afford good healthcare for their own why are they paying that.
While Palestinans have had israel displace them from lands their ancestors lived on for generations. Most jews immigrated to the region during the later 1800s and 1900s and many were Ashkenazi. Mizrahi jews only outnumber them now due to higher birth rates, look it up.
Israeli society has been posilned with a victim mindset that everyone is out to get them, arabs, europeans, etc. They’ve been taught to hate just as hitler brainwashed germans to hate jews. Israelis are scared of being replaced just look at how the israeli govt did to ethiopian jews(they steralized their women so they couldnt have black babies)
Israeli arabs are treated as 2nd class citizens and are forced to live in certain parts of israel(sounds awfully similar to jewish ghettos in the 1930s)
Jewish trauma from ww2 formed theie society and this is what was created.
Palestinians trauma and history has created a people willing to fight to the death for freedom and their own.
Both sides were made this way due to , u guessed it colonialism. Specifically UK and US meddeling in the region. They drew the boarders and made falss promises and look how it ended up.
If you are pro-Ukriane u should be pro-palestine. There is no actual other argument but most everyone here is actually just Racisit towards arabs and Islamophobic but what a shock there are secular Palestinians and Christian palestinans too.
And Ireland being pro-Palestine is not a suprise considering they were a former british colony and they have always been against the Uk’s colonialism , so palestine another former english colony will be supported by the latter same how ireland was anti apertheid in south africa in the 80s and 90s
Ireland just took a massive L.
Free Palestine