Irish fighter calls out IDF soldier in ring
Paddy McCorry screams "Free Palestine" while beating an Israeli fighter with IDF service history. Look, I get the politics, but mixing combat sport with military service gets messy fast. The framing here (IDF = terrorists, Israelis = cowards) is exactly the kind of dehumanizing language that poisons actual discourse. You can be pro-Palestinian and anti-occupation without reducing individual fighters to their military past or military institution. This validates exactly what pro-Israel people point to when they say Palestinian solidarity has become cover for plain old bigotry against Israeli people. Bad politics. Bad sportsmanship.
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