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News ID: 129700
Publish Date : 24 July 2024 - 21:42

Israeli Olympics Flagbearer ‘Signed Bombs’ Targeting Gaza Civilians

PARIS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s male flagbearer at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have signed bombs prior to them being fired against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu has reported. 
Peter Paltchik, 32, used social media to show him writing “From me to you with pleasure” on munitions destined for Gaza.
Leyla Hamed, a sports journalist based in the UK, said the presence of the Zionist regime’s athletes such as Paltchik “is going to make this Olympics (in Paris) to be remembered as the Genocide Games.”
Hamed hastened to add that Paltchik was part of the judo team that disrupted a pro-Palestinian protest in Japan and harassed protestors while wearing his Olympic uniform.
“Does this represent the @Olympics spirit,” she asked.
Her tweets came in response to a post by the Israeli Olympic team on July 5 stating that Paltchik and Andi Murez would be flagbearers for the Zionist regime’s contingent at the Paris Olympics.
Max Blumenthal, a U.S.-based journalist and editor of the Grayzone website, responding to Hamed’s tweet wrote that the Zionist regime “seldom wins gold because there are no Olympic competitions in slaughtering masses of children and manipulating Western political hacks.”
Kieran Cunningham, the chief sports writer for the Irish Daily Star, also reacted to Paltchik being the Israeli team’s flagbearer at the Paris Olympics, calling it a “disgrace.”
“It is a disgrace that apartheid Israel are allowed to take part in the Olympics,” he wrote.
Boren Kraunt, a Jewish peace activist, in a post on X, shared Paltchik’s photos – him posing with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, shells signed by the judoka and him harassing pro-Palestine protesters.
“Peter Paltchik Israel’s flag bearer at the Olympics. Above all, he carries the standard of war and has simple pleasures: posing with Netanyahu, signing shells, misusing Judaism to bless massacres or his kimono to intimidate demonstrators for a ceasefire,” he wrote.
Anita Rama, an Algerian activist, also took to X to introduce Israel’s Olympic 2024 flagbearer to her followers.
“Here is Peter Paltchik, the standard bearer of the Israeli Olympic delegation, best known for having signed and autographed bombs intended to massacre Palestinian children in particular,” she wrote.
“These are not the Olympics of sportsmanship but of genocide and shame.”
A U.S.-based rights advocacy group says Israel should be barred from the Olympic Games over a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the occupying regime’s barbaric crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Fadi Quran, executive director at nonprofit organization Avaaz, made the statement in a social media post on Tuesday following an ICJ advisory opinion asserting that the regime is committing apartheid and systematic discrimination against Palestinians and has effectively annexed large portions of their territory through its occupation.
“The IOC has a policy prohibiting apartheid and systematic discrimination, necessitating a ban” on those engaging in such practices, Quran said, adding, “The ICJ has confirmed that Israel is guilty of these actions.”