Israel 'blamed' as Australia cancels ice hockey World Championships - Michael West

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Victoria Police advised us that there was a high chance of an incident occurring during the championship due to the escalating anti-Israel sentiment in Melbourne.”

  If this is true and the cops a back-peddling you’d want to hope that IHA kept the receipts.

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  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think there’s possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of ‘incident’ here.

    What is meant by ‘incident’? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?

    I think there’s probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.

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• Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Solution: Kick Israel out of the contest. They should be barred from the international stage entirely.

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