Paris, 14 March 2024

A French extreme-left group has demanded to ban the Israeli flag from the next Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Palestinian “sports” groups have called on all Arab and other countries to prevent Israel’s participation.

The International Olympic Committee’s President, Thomas Bach, has so far “made clear that there was no issue regarding Israel participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics,” cautioning others against discrimination in Paris.

Bach had apologized for the many years it took the IOC to commemorate the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich 1972 Games as “the darkest days in Olympic history... an attack on the Olympics and its values.”

Wiesenthal Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, recalled that Bach had also held a moment of silence at the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Games to remember “the Munich 1972 terror murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian Black September.”

Samuels called on French President, Emmanuel Macron, “to ensure that Israel be present in these Paris Games and to prevent any BDS campaign (the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel), that would be reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s antisemitism, and not befitting the host country, France, nor the spirit of sport and of the Olympics.”

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