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

submitted 9 months ago by MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be clear here, "Anti-semetic" is the slur, not whatever imagines slight Israeli players accused Ireland of.

[–] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, exactly. Whipping out a charge of anti-Semitism against folks who just don't happen to agree with how your government is handling their business is absolutely a slur.

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

handling their business

It's okay to say "committing genocide."