In the last hundred years, the Palestinian people have endured a number of catastrophes caused by Zionism and its offspring, Israel, which can be difficult to describe in words. Today, Israel uses anti-Semitism as an excuse to rationalize the world's outrage over its crimes against the Palestinian people. In fact, there is no hostility toward Jews, but rather anger and resentment toward Israel due to its genocide in Gaza. It’s a matter of fact that Israel's criminal behavior generates hatred against Zionism rather than anti-Semitism.
Israel claims that
every protest (including the call for the expulsion from UEFA and FIFA) against
its crimes strengthens Hamas. There is a clear correlation between Israel's
role as a victim and accusing others of anti-Semitism. By blaming others for
anti-Semitism, Israel portrays itself as a victim, a mission that is a part of
its policy. Anti-Semitism is used to
silence and repress anyone in support of Palestine. In Israel's perspective,
the law is irrelevant to it, it is always above the law, and its ability to
enjoy impunity is one of its most important advantages. And if the world criticizes
it for its behavior, it will be viewed as anti-Semitism.
“A clear and simple way to define anti-Semitism is bigotry
or discrimination against Jews just for being Jews. Palestinians have
always clearly spoken out against anti-Jewish bigotry. It overtly conflates criticism
of Israel and Zionism, on the one hand, with anti-Jewish bigotry, on the
other,” wrote Nora Barrows-Friedman.
According to Maura
Finkelstein, anti-Semitism is used by Israel to divert focus from its genocide
in Gaza, the real material violence that we should be condemning. Resistance to
the Jewish supremacist project of Zionism, which is an inherently settler
colonial project of genocide, is not anti-Semitic. It is instead an anti-colonial
form of resistance.
Israeli media
criticized the Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso for breaking his silence in a
courageous moment that upholds the ideals of sports and the spirit of the
Olympics. During his speech, he described with great emotion his deep shame and
anguish at facing the team of Israeli footballers.
Israel is the one
who is responsible for the humiliation. There is growing outrage and hatred
worldwide due to its genocide in Gaza. Furthermore, it is difficult to
exonerate these Israeli athletes, since most of them are supporting the war of
ethnic cleansing and genocide against in Gaza. The majority of the younger
generation in Israel has been affected by 'Nazification', a process that a
large part of the younger generation has been subjected to as a result of
Zionist ideology. Historically, Zionism has been viewed as a manifestation of
racism and racial discrimination.
Most of
the protesters who protest the genocide in Gaza today are the same ones who condemned
the Holocaust that was perpetrated on the Jews by Nazi Germany during the
Second World War. The Jewish survivors of the Holocaust have condemned Israel's
genocide and have declared that it was not committed in their name. We are also
seeing large numbers of anti-Zionist Jews participating in the protests against
the genocide in Gaza, doing their utmost to expose and discredit Zionism,
demanding that the US administration stop sending weapons to Israel and halt
the genocide in the Gaza Strip. The fact that many Jews (including
intellectuals, artists, and clerics) condemn Israel, horrified by horrific scenes of
murder and starvation, is not a surprise either. As a matter of fact, many
observers and human rights workers have pointed out that Israel has outdone
Nazism and fascism in terms of its crimes and arrogance.
The world is now aware, however, that criticizing Israel and
speaking out about its occupation and genocide does not equate to anti-Semitism
in any way. It is to be noted, however, that if Israel fails to accuse its
opponents of anti-Semitism, it will have to come up with other methods filled
with deception and falsity in order to justify its crimes and genocide in
Palestine and create a bright image of itself around the world.
In 1928, Arthur Ruppin,
described by an Israeli writer as the “godfather” of Zionist colonization in
Palestine, wrote:
It became clear to me how hard it is to realize Zionism in a
way compatible with the demands of universal ethics. I was quite depressed.
This was not uttered by someone who was anti-Semitic, a Jew
hater, but by someone who was a strong proponent of Zionism.
Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister and later a
Prime Minister once said:
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in
our generation without deceit and adventurism.
In addition to
being powerful tools for inclusion, sports are also essential instruments for
the development of peace and development. In spite of the boundaries and
differences between societal groups, they serve as a means of uniting people
from all over the world in order to work together towards confronting global
challenges. Sport, as a platform for social change, challenges biases and empowers
marginalized communities, as well as their connections, through the platform of
social change. Sport is a universal language that promotes the values of
respect, dignity, equality, toleration, and fairness, and can be used to raise
awareness, enhance understanding, and promote the application of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights by promoting the values of respect, dignity,
equality, and fairness.
In recent years,
it has become increasingly evident that the link between sport and human rights
is unreliable due to a number of factors. One of sport missions is to bring
about change in society and help those suffering injustice and inequality. It
is unfortunate that sport governing institutions, such as the International
Olympic Committee (IOC), FIFA, and others, have applied double standards to
Israel. They do not consolidate the foundations of justice and equality. These
institutions do not adhere to the statutes, constitutions, and principles upon
which they were founded. Unfortunately, these principles are only used as
rhetoric for the media and personal interests.
On the one hand, we
have heard a lot from these institutions about their fight against racial
discrimination and anti-Semitism by speaking out against it. The reality we are
witnessing now on the ground, especially the genocidal war being waged by
Israel, is completely incompatible with the "humanitarian" principles
on which these institutions were founded and continue to exist today. Silence
and neutrality of the IOC, FIFA, UEFA, and others is a form of complicity in
Zionist crimes in itself. It is a form of cooperation with the crimes.
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