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Ireland women's basketball team refuse to shake hands with Israel (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

To be even more fair, it's culture washing as the Palestinians are a semitic people, and the Israeli player called the Irish players anti-Semitic because of their well known support of the Palestinian people.