Israel should have pulled its Ambassador from Austria after such an insult!
Nov 15, 2009 2:25
Israeli wins gold in fencing; Austrian hosts don't play 'Hatikva'
Israeli fencer Daria Strelnikov won the gold medal at the cadet's fencing world championship in Austria Saturday night. However, as the 14-year-old athlete stood at the podium waiting to hear the Israeli national anthem, she was greeted by a disturbing quiet.
Strelnikov and a fellow teammate on the podium decided to fill in the silence by singing Hatikva themselves. They were joined by their coach, and other supporting voices in the crowd.
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i dont think that israel should pull its ambassador over this -- way too minor. who even knew there was a fencing tournament in austria?
did the austrians explain or apologize? were they asked for an explanation?
if they have no justifiable reason for this insult [technical malfunction, etc. + apology] then israel should issue some kind of statement of protest.
a big kol hakavod, though, goes to the israeli team for taking the initiative and singing hatikva on their own.
a, "minor?" What's so minor about an extremely rude insult to a sovereign country? Israel always accepts treatment that no other country would accept, like the fact that our state capital is snubbed. I protest!
tnj, amazing that nothing is being done.
Was she competing on Shabbat like most athletes? The I commend those goyim for not supporting hilul Hashem!
Jews are not representing Israel when they compete on Shabbat and I think no sane 'normal' rabbi would give a heter for that. If they choose to compete on Shabbat, they are representing only themselves.
C'mon josh, that's not the point here, and you don't know when it was.
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