Using Hamas propaganda as a pretext for virtue-signaling.
“Fury in France after politician says Israelis ‘not welcome’ at Paris Olympics,” by Jane Prinsley, The JC, July 22, 2024:
French Members of Parliament for La France Insoumise (LFI) parliamentary group, Thomas Portes (L), has been accused of putting Israeli athletes under threat with his comments (Photo: Getty Images)
A hard-left French politician has sparked outrage after saying that Israeli athletes were not welcome at the Paris Olympics.
Thomas Portes, an MP for the radical-left France Unbowed party (LFI), encouraged protest against the Israeli presence at the Games.
Portes told an anti-Israel rally in Paris on Saturday: “We are just a few days away from an international event to be held in Paris, the Olympic Games. And I’m here to say that no, the Israeli delegation is not welcome in Paris.
“Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Olympic Games in Paris. We have to use this deadline and all the levers we have to mobilise.”
Head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Yonathan Arfi, condemned Portes’s comments as “irresponsible”.
Writing on X, Arfi accused Portes of “putting a target on the backs of Israeli athletes, already the most threatened in the Olympic Games” and recalled the 1972 Munich Olympics where 11 Israeli athletes were “murdered by Palestinian terrorists”.
But Portes doubled down on his comments, telling a Parisian newspaper that “France’s diplomats should pressure the International Olympic Committee to bar the Israeli flag and anthem, as is done for Russia”.
“It’s time to end the double standard,” Portes said.
Portes’s comments have been criticised by politicians from the left and right of the French political spectrum….
England Invaded says
Doesn’t seem like comments are welcome here either. Not quite as touchy as other sites but not far off.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sometimes, comments appear in a thread after you’ve posted several of them. Like yesterday, I had to post 4-6 comments on a thread before all of them appeared. It might be a platforrm dependent thing: right here, I’m using a Chromebook
Nabil Bissada says
The left in France do not have any idea whenever Muslims will have the power, they will arrest them according to the Koran and the sharia law.
I cannot believe who are living in Europe still do not understand the true. That all the trouble in Gaza and according to the people of Gaza is made by Hamas.
The left in Paris or in any western country need to know that all the Arab Muslims countries do not trust Hamas. And they are considering Hamas as a terrorist’s organizations.
Very important to know that the Arab Muslims countries are refusing to accept the members of Hamas as a refugee.
The Members of Hamas are a terrorist per example they killed hundreds of the Egyptians soldiers at the border without any excuse.
If you like Hamas go and live with them for 6 months. And you will be sure how much you were ignorant.
if you are trusting Hamas, same you are trusting evil when he talks about honesty.
Brigitte from Germany says
I love Israel.
God bless Israel.
God safe Israel.
somehistory says
A report tonight says that France is banning the mozlum scarf at the Olympics.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I have a feeling that these Olympics in Paris will be even more disastrous than the one in Rio in 2016. A point is likely to come where fewer nations will be enthusiastic about hosting it
James Lincoln says
So, Thomas Portes, how long has France been an islamic Republic?