Paris 2024: Israeli Flagbearer (Ukrainian born) signed Bombs aimed to Palestinians Kids. Athletes’ ‘Solidarity’ with Gaza in Olympics opening
In the cover image Israeli team’s flagbearer at the Paris Olympics, Peter Paltchik, is known for signing bomb shells aimed at Palestinian civilians in Gaza. (Twitter)
by Gospa News Editorial Staff
Pro-peace Olympic teams at the Olympic Games opening ceremony are to show solidarity with Palestinians trapped under Israeli fire in the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to pro-Palestinian protest organizers.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony is scheduled to be held on Friday with some 90 vessels carrying Olympic teams from countries participating in the event down a 6km route along the Seine.
According to reports, the flag-bearer of the Israeli contingent at the Paris Olympics will be Peter Paltchik, a Ukrainian-born Israeli judoka who competes in the under-100 kg weight category.
Social media users have pointed out that Paltchik, a former European champion, was one of those who signed bomb shells aimed at Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
Pro-Palestine protest organizers expect to hold high-profile demonstrations at the event in a “show of solidarity” with Gazans.
“We call on participating delegations to join calls for a ceasefire now and to stop Israel’s Gaza genocide. We urge Olympic athletes to use their platform to take a stand for Palestinian rights,” said Stephanie Adam from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
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“While the International Olympic Committee and host country France would like to hide the dissent, including through repressive and underhanded tactics, the strong popular opposition to genocidal Israel’s presence in the Olympics made itself heard and seen at the Israel-Mali Olympic football match on Wednesday,” she said.
On Wednesday, during the Israeli-Mali football match, pro-peace demonstrators booed the Zionists’ team to protest the months-long Israeli genocidal war on Palestinian people, mostly women and children, trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip without water, food and medicine.
Pro-Palestinians also demonstrated Palestine flags during the event.
Adam said pro-Palestinians were in discussions for massive action and demonstrations to be held during events over the next three weeks till the ending of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 11. “The dissent will only grow during the Games.”
However, French authorities warn security will be tight with 45,000 police and gendarmes deployed, in addition to 2,000 Games’ guards.
Till now more than 39,175 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli war machine. Iran has condemned the Israeli delegation’s participation in the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Iran says the Israeli regime is not qualified for membership in any group or organization dedicated to upholding and promoting human rights. The Palestinian Olympic body called earlier this week on the International Olympic Committee to expel the Zionist entity’s delegation from the Paris Olympics.
Israeli Olympic team flagbearer (Ukranian Born) signed Bomb Shells aimed at Palestinian children
Israeli team is set to participate in the Paris Olympics starting Friday after the French government as well as the International Olympic Committee turned down calls to ban it over the genocidal war on Gaza.
Netizens have been fuming at the body responsible for organizing the Olympic Games and Emmanuel Macron’s government for allowing “mass murderers” to participate in the marquee sports competition.
According to reports, the flag-bearer of the Israeli contingent at the Paris Olympics will be Peter Paltchik, a Ukrainian-born Israeli judoka who competes in the under-100 kg weight category.
Social media users have pointed out that Paltchik, a former European champion, was one of those who signed bomb shells aimed at Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, after the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged territory in October 2023, Paltchik shared a photo of munitions signed by him.
“From me to you with pleasure,” he wrote in the tweet, which stirred up the hornet’s nest. Leyla Hamed, a sports journalist based in the UK, said the presence of Israeli 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 Israeli contingent at the Paris Olympics.
Max Blumenthal, a US-based journalist and editor of the Grayzone website, responding to Hamed’s tweet wrote that Israel “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 cease-fire,” 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.”
Fadi Quran, the campaign manager for Avaaz, a rights and advocacy group, in a post on X, stated that the ICJ advisory opinion mandates that the Olympics officially ban Israel. “The IOC has a policy prohibiting apartheid and systematic discrimination, necessitating a ban on governments engaging in such practices. The ICJ has confirmed that Israel is guilty of these actions,” he wrote.
“Allowing Israel to participate violates the IOC charter. Ignoring the Palestinian Olympic Committee’s request will permanently stain the Paris Olympics and every member of the Olympic committee.”
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