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That’s rich. Muslims have been persecuting Jews since the invention of Islam. The war against the Jewish state is just the latest in the long jihadi war against the Jews.
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Brooklyn College Athletes Draw Ire For Kneeling During Israel’s National Anthem
By Adam Kredo, WFB, February 25, 2020:
Student athletes at Brooklyn College are facing criticism after kneeling during the singing of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, before a volleyball match against Jewish students of Yeshiva University.
At a men’s volleyball competition that took place during the weekend, two players from Brooklyn College can be seen on video taking a knee as Hatikvah plays. The kneeling Brooklyn players were subsequently identified as Omar Rezika and Hunnan Butt in social media posts on the event.
The two basketball players from @BrooklynCollege pic.twitter.com/UNUKYgr0iY
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) February 24, 2020
The episode is already making waves in the pro-Israel community after video of Rezika and Butt kneeling was posted on Twitter. The incident is just the latest in a long line of student athletes refusing to compete with, and even mistreating, their Jewish challengers. It has become commonplace in recent years for athletes to engage in anti-Israel political protests during sports competition. One of the more high-profile incidents occurred during the Rio Olympics in 2016, when Egyptian judoka fighter Islam El Shehaby refused to shake the hand of his Israeli competitor.
Dr. Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, told the Free Beacon he was disappointed to see that Brooklyn players “disrespected” Israel’s national anthem.
“It is unfortunate that some members of the opposing team disrespected Israel’s national anthem,” Berman said. “We are proud to be the only university who sings both the American and Israeli national anthems before every athletic competition and major event. Nothing makes me prouder to be an American than living in a country where our religious freedom, our Zionism and our commitment to our people will never be impeded and always be prized.”
While some alleged that Rezika and Butt refused to shake hands with the Jewish athletes, officials with both Brooklyn College and Yeshiva disputed that claim. They told the Free Beacon the players shook hands after the game ended, which is commonplace in volleyball matches. Video of the event posted online does not show whether the players shook hands.
A Brooklyn College spokesman, when reached by the Free Beacon for comment, defended the students’ rights under the First Amendment to kneel during Israel’s national anthem.
“Brooklyn College strongly condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and hatred,” the school official said. “The two students who knelt during the national anthem did not refuse to shake hands with players from the other team. Their kneeling is protected by the First Amendment.”
Yeshiva wrote on Twitter that claims a handshake did not take place are “not accurate.” It added “Please rest assured that if anything like that should ever occur we would handle it through the proper channels.”
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29 Comments
4 years ago
maybe he was on his period
4 years ago
they took a knee hoping to suck off some of the YU players.
4 years ago
How about we stick to the National Anthem here in America? Let them kneel to that…
4 years ago
Ban muslim immigration.
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
I agree, ban all muslim immigration and all muslim travel to the USA
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
I agree, ban all muslim immigration and all muslim travel to the USA
4 years ago
I’m tired that all the points are given to Muhammadists in the media.
We must make clear that a new sherrif is in town & I mean me & my supporters & we’re about to bring healthy food, free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania & make Africa free again.
4 years ago
Perhaps they’re hoping for a sweet Nike deal ?!!
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Most racial,ignorant and evil ppl on the face of the earth are Black PPl
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Most racial,ignorant and evil ppl on the face of the earth are Black PPl
4 years ago
Next time they win kneel when their anthem is played
4 years ago
Mitt Romney Used Trump to get elected, but immediately turned on him even before he was sworn in. That shows his value set. Politics being what it is, he has a critical place in the Senate to maintain a Senate majorit in matters such as confirming justices, so while he used Trump to get elected, Trump will like need to use Romney to have court justices confirmed, unless Romney makes a complete reversal, becomes independent, and caucuses with the Democrats, which I wouldn’t be surprised to see.
4 years ago
butt says it all
4 years ago
One of the many reasons why a muslim will always be a wild animal
4 years ago
If anyone thinks this is as bad as its going to get between f’ing muslums and Jews in the USA I’d refer them to muhammad the pedophile for profit’s massacre of Jews in khybar or the Granada massacre of 1066, or the Yerushalem pogrom of the 1920’s, or the Farhud pogrom in the 1940’s or the ethnic cleansing of Jews from practically the entire muslum world.
4 years ago
I agree that “americans” have the right to their own OPINION. I also agree that the organization sponsoring the event has the RIGHT to KICK OUT an OFFENDING participant!!!!!!
4 years ago
First of all, THANK YOU Pamela for referring to the “invention” of Islam. The “inventor” was Muhammad whose “divine” revelation is highly disputed.
4 years ago
Even in the poorest and underveloped countries one must accept the customs and traditions – or being ready to kicked out.
REMOVE THESE MUSLIMS FROM US SOIL !
4 years ago
And I say they absolutely should kneel to Israel! Israel is so high above them, they are metaphorically on their knees anyway. I look at it as an honor to Israel. Kneel! Kneel! Kneel before your betters!
4 years ago
Kick them off the team and send them back to their original country of origin.
4 years ago
Mozzlem “athletes” ?? Do they require more timeouts than their teammates, so they can take their prayer breaks ?? Sounds as much an oxymoron as “mozzlem scholars”…..
4 years ago
They should have been forced to forfeit for their disrespect and lack of sportsmanship. Islam is evil.
4 years ago
They should have been forced to forfeit for lack of resepect and unsportsman like conduct.
4 years ago
Islam believes in the total annihilation of Israel. Negotiate with that….how?
4 years ago
Could some enterprising muslum apologist tell me if these athletes were “islamists”? Maybe proto-islamists? Crypto-islamists? Moderate islamists?
