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2024-02-10 International-UN-NGOs
Irish basketball team refuses to shake hands with Israelis, proceeds to lose by 30
[IsraelTimes] Basketball Ireland backed national women’s team forgoing pleasantries after Israeli player called them antisemitic; Israel captain: It was a lot more than a win, it became personal

The Ireland women’s team shunned normal pre-match courtesies when it faced Israel in EuroBasket qualifying on Thursday after it said it was outraged by accusations of antisemitism by an Israeli player.

The accusations, by Israeli player Dor Saar on the Israeli Basketball Association’s official channels, prompted Basketball Ireland to file a report to governing body FIBA Europe.
Whining Losers are proven
Forfeiting the match was rejected because Ireland would have faced sanctions.

Instead, there were no handshakes or other pleasantries before the qualifier in Riga, Latvia, an alternative venue because of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Israel won 87-57. The teams are in a group with La Belle France and Latvia. Ireland is scheduled to host Israel on November 10.

"I’ve been in sports for a long time, I’ve never seen something like this my whole life," Israeli coach Sharon Drucker said on the Israeli Basketball Association’s website after the game.

"There was never a game where you don’t give a gift, shake hands, wish well to each other. [The Irish] totally took a side, and they received their punishment today. Sports need to bring people together and bridge gaps. They took a side without even thinking about what they were doing," Drucker said.

"Basketball Ireland informed FIBA Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff — including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of antisemitism, published on official Israeli federation channels — that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents," a Basketball Ireland statement read on Thursday.

"This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the national anthem by our bench, rather than center court. Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision."

While Ireland defied pressure to boycott the match — the federation said it was not feasible — several players opted not to travel to Riga.

"It’s known that they are quite antisemitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected," Saar, a United States-based student, had said in an interview before the match published by the Israeli Basketball Association.

"We have to show that we’re better than them and win. We talk about it among ourselves. We know they don’t love us and we will leave everything on the field always and in this game especially."
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-10 2024-02-10 02:48|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 The Real History of Ireland Warts and All

...I happened to purchase out of curiosity a copy of Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. I was rather astounded to find that the version of German history Hitler preached was uncannily like the version of Irish history I had been taught in school. Both were derived from the racial theories of the early nineteenth century, of the special Geist or genius of each race, and the Darwinian Rassenkampf or wars of the races, resulting in the survival of the fittest or strongest.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 04:07||   2024-02-10 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Pre-competition incentivisation.
Blame the coaches.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-10 06:14||   2024-02-10 06:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Not up to scratch on sportsmanship or basketball.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-10 07:05||   2024-02-10 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Cambridge Press, 2016: The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) in particular has had the most influence in the institutionalisation of Islam in Ireland. Its involvement in the creation of Muslim networks in Ireland is complex and varies from case to case. There might only be historical links to the Muslim Brotherhood in certain Irish Muslim institutions, whereas others have come to share similar ideological orientations over time. There are also Muslim organisations in Ireland that openly involve direct participation of members of the Muslim Brotherhood at varying levels, while others share links that are only circumstantial.
Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-02-10 08:30||   2024-02-10 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 So, why is there a picture of Notre Dame du Paris in an article about Israelis playing Irish in Latvia?
Inquiring minds are confused...
(My personal opinion about the story is there seems to be a whole lot of a$$holes involved, and they're fairly evenly distributed.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-02-10 08:40||   2024-02-10 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The only person who won't agree "You meet an Irishman, you are meeting an azzhole," are other Irishmen. And then only about 10% of the time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-10 08:43||   2024-02-10 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds sorta like Larry Bird, you trash talk me and I'll drop 30 on you.
Posted by AlanC 2024-02-10 08:55||   2024-02-10 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Bassetbaw is no way to relate to life, son...
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-10 09:09||   2024-02-10 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 'Hamas a future partner for peace': says new Nationalist Northern Irish First Minister
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 09:39||   2024-02-10 09:39|| Front Page Top

#10 why is there a picture of Notre Dame du Paris

Part of the auto-translate for Europe, ed.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-10 10:41||   2024-02-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Here ya go, EiT.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-10 11:30||   2024-02-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Happy my great great grandfather left Ireland in the 1840s.
Posted by Tom 2024-02-10 12:33||   2024-02-10 12:33|| Front Page Top

#13 An article about the Irish being fractious - how ordinary!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-10 13:17||   2024-02-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Russia torments millions of Jews over centuries, gets millions killed through sheer lunatic incompetence, scares off most survivors under her control. Grom: "Yay Russia!"

Some Einstein calls the Irish prodigious antisemites and a few nitwits reply, "Go feck yerselves!" Grom: "Irish are Nazis!"

Smiling Irish sigh. Anyone know, offhand, the demographics of the actual boycotters?
Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-10 18:14||   2024-02-10 18:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry, I wasn't fair, there. Should've been "Some Irish guy says Irish are Nazis!" That said, you can nuke the awful place any time you like. Dead to me for years.
Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-10 18:53||   2024-02-10 18:53|| Front Page Top

#16 #15 Sorry, I wasn't fair, there. Should've been "Some Irish guy says Irish are Nazis!" That said, you can nuke the awful place any time you like. Dead to me for years.

And yet...
Posted by badanov 2024-02-10 23:03||   2024-02-10 23:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Heh, touché. Half kidding, of course. Can't deny a little residual affection for the old sod. Nor that, having never heard me sainted mither's people breathe a single antisemitic syllable, i might take too personally a generalization for which they (and all but a handful of other Irish I've known) were living counterexamples.

But yeah, it does seem to be pretty much screwed lately.
Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-10 23:54||   2024-02-10 23:54|| Front Page Top

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