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PA daily: Anti-normalization organization honors a Yemenite athlete for refusing to compete against Israel

Headline: "The Palestinian National Committee for the Struggle Against Normalization in Sport applauds the step – Yemenite judoka resigns from contest against 'Israeli' in Germany"
"Secretary General of the Palestinian National Committee for [the Struggle Against] Normalization in Sports, Jihad Uwaydah, praised the step taken by a participant on the Yemenite judo team, Ali Khasrouf, [who resigned] from the competition against an Israeli judoka as part of the Judo Grand Prix [2012] competition, which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany… Uwaydah asked the honorary president of the Palestinian Judo Association, Hani Al-Halabi, to invite judoka Khasrouf in order to honor him, as soon as possible, in Amman, the Jordanian capital. Uwaydah [the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Committee for the Struggle Against Normalization in Sports,] emphasized that the Aikido training camp, to be held in mid-March at the Al-Istiqlal University in Jericho, would be named after judoka Khasrouf."

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