The Jewish community of the Russian Federation is outraged by the anti -Semitic trick of the Lebanese team at the Olympics in Rio

The Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia is outraged by the behavior of the Lebanese national team at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and call on the International Olympic Committee to take strict measures.

“Unfortunately, the disgusting manifestation of anti -Semitism has also been added to the already unnecessarily politicized background of the Olympiad. There is and should be rivalry between sports teams, but it should never flow into insults on national soil. What happened, undermines the spirit of the Olympic competitions and contradicts the peace -loving idea of ​​the Olympic Games,” the statement said in a statement by the chapter The Department of Public Relations Feor Borukh Gorin, who entered Wednesday to the editorial office of the Interfax-religion portal.

So he commented on the incident that occurred during the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Athletes from Lebanon and Israel, according to the distribution and schedule compiled by the organizers of the games, were supposed to get by one bus to the Marakan stadium. During the landing in the Liva team, the Israeli athletes did not allow Israeli to take one bus with them. The latter were forced to change the bus.

“Usually they say that sport, and even more so Olympiads, is outside the politics. But, unfortunately, we see that this principle is grossly violated. This situation is from a number of anti -Semitic incidents, which used to come in international competitions, where Israeli and Arab athletes performed. The penetration of hatred at the Olympic Games is an alarming symptom,” Gorin said.

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It is not clear to him why the International Olympic Committee responded to this incident only by reprimand.

“I think that in cases of such aggressive xenophobia, we should talk about the removal of the team from further participation in games. We urge the IOC to respond so that this serves the whole lesson for the future so that no one has occurred to anyone in the future to behave in this way,” the representative Feor emphasized.