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Tag: International Olympic Committee

0 Sports Politics

Those viral images of Israeli Olympians advocating to ‘Bring them home’ are not actually from the Olympics

Jacob Gurvis in JTA · 30 Jul

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman shared a misleading video purportedly showing Israel's national gymnastics team at the Paris Olympics performing a routine with a "Bring Them Home" theme, which turned out to be from an acrobatics club in Israel, not the Olympics.

0 Politics Sports

Palestinians will compete at the Olympics — without a state to represent. Here's why Jews should be outraged

David B. Isenberg in Forward · 26 Jul

Jewish readers should be outraged by the fact that Palestinian athletes will participate in the Olympics without a state to represent, highlighting the lack of Palestinian statehood and its implications for their daily lives and sporting activities.

0 Holocaust Sports

This Video of Holocaust Survivor and Olympian Agnes Keleti Is So Moving

Lisa Keys in Kveller · 9 Jan

Agnes Keleti, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and gymnast, is the oldest surviving Olympic champion and the most decorated Jewish female Olympic athlete of all time.

0 Holocaust Sports

Israeli Munich Olympics Terror Victims Were Brutalized and Castrated

Forward · 2 Dec 2015

Family members of the Israeli athletes brutally murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palestinian group Black September revealed harrowing details of their treatment two decades later.

0 History Sports

Black September

Erika Dreifus in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

The text discusses the 1972 Munich Olympics where eleven Israeli athletes were murdered by Black September, a group linked to the Palestine Liberation Organization.