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The Palestinian War on Israel’s Olympic Team

The violent hostility of Jibril Rajoub to Israel goes back more than half a century.

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Palestinian sports chief Jibril Rajoub at the FIFA Congress at Bangkok, May 17, 2024. AP/Sakchai Lalit
DAVID MAY
DAVID MAY

The Palestinian Arab sports chief Jibril Rajoub once declared regarding Israel, “I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning.” The next best option for Rajoub: attempting to boot Israel from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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DAVID MAY
DAVID MAY

David May is a research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.

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