Anti-Israel protests are demanding that Israel be treated like Russia at this summer’s Paris Olympics and that Israeli athletes compete under a neutral flag.
Russian and Belorussian athletes have been barred from competing under their national flags at the 2024 Summer Olympics as punishment for Russia’s 2022 invasion, which was aided by Belarus, of Ukraine. Officials from both of those countries have also been banned from the Paris Olympics.
Protesters assembled outside the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, demanding Israel receive the same punishment, citing its war in Gaza with Hamas terrorists.
A demonstrator demanding the boycott of Israel during the Olympic Games demonstrates with a poster reading, “No Games for genocidal, boycott Israel” outside the Paris Olympic organizing committee headquarters on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Alexander Turnbull)
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