Letter sent to International Olympics Committee protesting hate speech by the PA’s Olympics Committee, exposed by PMW
Letter sent to International Olympics Committee protesting hate speech by the PA’s
Olympics Committee, exposed by PMW
Olympics Committee, exposed by PMW
Headline: Where is PA Olympic Chief's 'Fraternity and Fellowship'?
Sub-headline: PA Olympics Committee head endorsed "slaughter of [Jewish] settlements." Protest sent to International Olympic Committee.
by Hillel Fendel
Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Authority's Olympics Committee, is on record as having endorsed, in an interview on PA TV, the "slaughter of [Jewish] settlements."
A letter of protest has been sent to Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee. It was written by Dr. Hillel Appelbaum, on behalf of the terrorism-stricken Applebaum family, with assistance from Mattot Arim, an Israeli NGO that has long been working towards "peace for peace."
Dr. Hillel's cousin Dr. David Applebaum, together with his daughter Nava who was to have been married the next day, were brutally murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in Jerusalem, together with five others, in September 2003.
The letter of protest to Mr. Thoma Bach, President of the Lausanne-based International Olympics Committee, calls his attention to a video produced by Palestinian Media Watch, in which Rajoub is seen telling a TV interviewer this past August as follows: “Fatah has decided that our relations with the Israelis are relations between enemies. There is no kind of coordination between the Israelis and us… OK, brother, here is the occupation: Am I stopping you from slaughtering a settlement? No one is stopping anyone... Our political decision is resistance in the occupied territories in order to bring an end to the occupation [using] all forms of resistance.”
The letter requests that Mr. Bach "do the utmost you are able to do with the considerable powers of your position" to redress the situation. It then concludes: "After all, the Olympic spirit strives to build a world of brotherhood [as the Olympic hymn states]: Let all the flags of every land In brotherhood unfold, And let fraternity and fellowship surround the soul of every nation…"
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