Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 30.07.2024
According to imperialist propaganda, there is no room for politics in the Olympic games. Yet this is another lie, as questions of who will participate, who will be banned, and where the games will take place are political questions.
The Olympic committee decided to hold the Olympic games in Paris despite the decision of the French government to allow the representatives of the Zionist monster to compete even against Athletes from Arab and Muslim states against their will. Any athlete who refuses to compete against a Zionist athlete is suspended, even though they represent a state with a long record of genocides.
Yesterday (Sunday), the Algerian judoka Massoud Driss arrived at the weigh-in weighing 73.4 kg, which led to his disqualification for sporting reasons, which would prevent his suspension. He was supposed to compete against the Zionist Toher Botbol in the category of up to 73 kg.
This event comes three years after another Algerian judoka, Fati Nourin, was handed a 10-year ban by the International Judo Federation after pulling out against Butbol also in the first round, saying his support for the Palestinians prevented him from stepping on the mat.
This brings to mind the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. At that time, Germany was under the rule of the Nazis. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps. The alternative to Berlin was Moscow, but the Olympic committee operating from the US preferred the Nazis.
The first camps were established in March 1933, immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Initially, most prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany, but as time went on, different groups were arrested and sent to the camps.
Dachau opened in Germany in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp of the Nazi regime. Prisoners were subjected to horrific conditions, forced labor, and medical experiments. Road signs showed the way to Dachau.
The Olympic committee demanded to remove the signs and, on this condition, approved the site in Berlin.
“Responding to reports of the persecution of Jewish athletes in 1933, Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee (AOC), stated: “The very foundation of the modern Olympic revival will be undermined if individual countries are allowed to restrict participation by reason of class, creed, or race.”[i]
“Like many others in the Olympic movement, Brundage initially considered moving the Games from Germany. After a brief and tightly managed inspection of German sports facilities in 1934, Brundage stated publicly that Jewish athletes were being treated fairly and that the Games should go on, as planned.”[ii]
“The United States, which traditionally sent one of the largest teams to the 1936 Olympics, was the center of debate over participation. By the end of 1934, the lines on both sides were drawn. Avery Brundage opposed a boycott, arguing that politics had no place in sport. He fought to send a US team to the 1936 Olympics, claiming: “The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.” He wrote in the AOC’s pamphlet “Fair Play for American Athletes” that American athletes should not become involved in the present “Jew-Nazi altercation.”As the Olympics controversy heated up in 1935, Brundage alleged the existence of a “Jewish-Communist conspiracy” to keep the United States out of the Games”.[iii]
“Judge Jeremiah Mahoney, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics. He pointed out that Germany had broken Olympic rules forbidding discrimination based on race and religion. In his view, participation would indicate an endorsement of Hitler’s Reich. Mahoney was one of several Catholic leaders supporting a boycott. New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, New York Governor Al Smith, and Massachusetts Governor James Curley opposed sending a team to Berlin. The Catholic journal The Commonweal (November 8, 1935) advised boycotting an Olympics that would set the seal of approval on radically anti-Christian Nazi doctrines. Another important boycott supporter, Ernst Lee Jahncke (a former assistant secretary of the US Navy), was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in July 1936 after taking a strong public stand against the Berlin Games. The IOC pointedly elected Avery Brundage to fill Jahncke’s seat. Jahncke is the only member in the 100-year history of the IO0 years to be ejected.”[iv]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not become involved in the boycott issue, despite warnings from high-level American diplomats regarding Nazi exploitation of the Olympics for propaganda purposes. As a matter of historical fact, Roosevelt supported the Nazi regime because it was anti-communist.
Down with the Zionist monster!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-movement-to-boycott-the-berlin-olympics-of-1936
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid
[iv] Ibid