Baruch Shmailov's gold medal celebrations yesterday (Thursday), at the opening of the Tel Aviv Grand Slam, went awry a bit, after a video posted by the World Judo Association on Instagram caused dozens of angry pro-Palestinian reactions.
The World Association has released a number of videos, including Shmaylov's win, Timna Nelson Levy's bronze and Elon's impressive iPhone on a US opponent, and shared the account of the Israeli Judo Association, which also uploaded, but the "congratulations" were not long in coming.
Screenshot of the unsympathetic reactions received by Baruch Shmailov,
Among the captions, one can find "Liberate Palestine", Fuck "" Israel, child killers, when in the Israeli union can not delete the comments, since it is a linked account and only the global union can remove the same comments that come from seemingly blunt.
This is not the first time that athletes have encountered such cases and even some of them have had to close their accounts for a short period in the past, especially after sporting achievements, when only yesterday, during the opening ceremony, union chairman Moshe Ponti received from the world chairman Marius Wieser the statuette "C" And Do for Peace "for the promotion of judo in a variety of cultures and the pursuit of peace and a better future.
The chairman of the union, Ponti, was moved and said: "I really appreciate Marius Wieser, he is a true friend and friend of Israel and of Israeli judo. I am excited and thank him for all his work for judo in Israel."
Chairman of the Judo Association, Moshe Ponti, at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam, Photo: Oren Aharoni
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