June 29, 2024 | New York Sun
The Palestinian War on Israel’s Olympic Team
The violent hostility of Jibril Rajoub to Israel goes back more than half a century.
June 29, 2024 | New York Sun
The Palestinian War on Israel’s Olympic Team
The violent hostility of Jibril Rajoub to Israel goes back more than half a century.
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The Palestinian Arab sports chief Jibril Rajoub once declared regarding Israel, “I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning.” The next best option for Rajoub: attempting to boot Israel from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Rajoub serves as president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee and the Palestinian Football Association. He briefed the International Olympic Committee president on Monday regarding alleged Israeli crimes against Palestinians, in line with his call for Israel to be banned from the games.
David May is a research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy. Noy Barel, a research intern at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, assisted in the authorship of this piece.