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Big time hypocrite
average global-northern leftist elected politician, unfortunately.
I am seeing no hypocrisy here based on her motto
How are you reading it? Angrily?
Technically wouldn't being a democracy be an aggravating factor for Israel wrongdoings, which makes the population more responsible compared to Russian or Belarussian one (therefore including athletes)?
I don't really agree with the rationale, although I personally wouldn't have supported a ban on Israelis athletes (similarly to how I generally don't agree with the same ban on Russian athletes - unless you are specifically a supporter of values that go against the Olympics such as genocide...- e.g., I agree with Karjakin being banned from any chess competition).
What for? Not familiar with the guy
Blind (I mean literally, he said he supports doesn't matter what) support to Putin and his imperial effort, public support for the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, helped gathering money for military equipment, showed up to the front to "support troops" and other stuff like that.
Wikipedia has a few lines, with a few sources linked.
You can see also a video (in Russian): https://smotrim.ru/video/2587296
Essentially the equivalent of an IDF groupie. Yuck.