• LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Not only that but they might have been banned for 5 years. Basketball has gotten huge in Ireland in the past couple of decades. I don’t see this justifying their decision. They still should have boycotted it, it’s an actual genocide. They ended up losing and the match was used as PR for Israel. They were used.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlM
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      9 months ago

      They were certainly used and the decision to boycott Israel should have come from the federation that organized the match. Once again we see how good and bad countries are decided on purely capitalist reasons by the bourgeoisie.

      However, I don’t think the victory did much for Israel’s PR. Maybe inside Israel itself, but everyone still stands with the Irish team for their decision not to meet the opposite team face to face.