Boycott the Maccabiah Games – The Maccabiah Games is a racist event that makes the 1936 Berlin Olympics seem liberal | haaretz.com
The 20th Maccabiah Games, which opens July 4, is a racist and ultranationalist event that violates the spirit of the Olympics. The Olympics are based on universal values of rising above differences of race and religion. But the condition for participation in the “Jewish Olympics” is racist. Only Jews take part in the Maccabiah. Not the best athletes from around the world, but only Jewish athletes. Some Israeli Arab athletes have taken part in the Maccabiah Games over the years, but that doesn’t change the event’s nature as the „Jewish Olympics.“ As the new jingle for the games goes, „80 states, one heart. And the heart, after all, is Jewish.“
Yung Gerd Henning
»The 20th Maccabiah Games, which opens July 4, is a racist and ultranationalist event that violates the spirit of the Olympics. […] Only Jews take part in the Maccabiah. […] Some Israeli Arab athletes have taken part in the Maccabiah Games over the years, but that doesn’t change the event’s nature as the „Jewish Olympics.“ « ?