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How Can a Minute be "Racist"?
by Marc Goldberg
Times of Israel
July 27, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/2843/how-can-a-minute-be-racist
Excerpt:
Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian Authority Minister for Sport, wrote a letter to IOC head Jacques Rogge thanking him for not caving to demands for a minute of silence at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, saying that "sports are meant for peace, not for racism… Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading of peace among nations; it must not be a cause of division and spreading of racism" (translation by Palestine Media Watch).
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