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Argentinian soccer team boycotts Israel -- and 'NY Times' whitewash fails to quote a single player | Mondoweiss | The New York Times faced a dilemma. How to downplay this stinging defeat for Israel in world opinion? The Times has a correspondent in Buenos Aires, Daniel Politi, and here's what he did [NYT] in today's sports pages; he did not quote Higuaín or any other player for Argentina. Instead, he spent 22 paragraphs partly peddling an alternate conspiracy theory: that Argentina canceled not for political reasons, but because the team feared "violence" from Palestinians. (Some pro-Palestinian activists had been waving bloody shirts at a peaceful demonstration in Barcelona, where the Argentine team is fine-tuning before Russia.) . The article at least pointed out that Israel's sports minister, the notorious Miri Regev, had moved the scheduled match from Haifa to Jerusalem, a propaganda ploy meant to imply a stronger endorsement of Israel. Captain Messi: There's #NothingFriendly about Israel killing peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza! @Argentina, don't team up with Israeli apartheid. Cancel "friendly" match in Jerusalem! https://t.co/Ye2WZXXGSf #ArgentinaNoVayas #Nakba70 #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/CgSXKKS9Kb— PACBI (@PACBI) May 17, 2018
The New York Times faced a dilemma. How to downplay this stinging defeat for Israel in world opinion? The Times has a correspondent in Buenos Aires, Daniel Politi, and here's what he did [NYT] in today's sports pages; he did not quote Higuaín or any other player for Argentina. Instead, he spent 22 paragraphs partly peddling an alternate conspiracy theory: that Argentina canceled not for political reasons, but because the team feared "violence" from Palestinians. (Some pro-Palestinian activists had been waving bloody shirts at a peaceful demonstration in Barcelona, where the Argentine team is fine-tuning before Russia.) .
The article at least pointed out that Israel's sports minister, the notorious Miri Regev, had moved the scheduled match from Haifa to Jerusalem, a propaganda ploy meant to imply a stronger endorsement of Israel.
Captain Messi: There's #NothingFriendly about Israel killing peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza! @Argentina, don't team up with Israeli apartheid. Cancel "friendly" match in Jerusalem! https://t.co/Ye2WZXXGSf #ArgentinaNoVayas #Nakba70 #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/CgSXKKS9Kb— PACBI (@PACBI) May 17, 2018
Captain Messi: There's #NothingFriendly about Israel killing peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza! @Argentina, don't team up with Israeli apartheid. Cancel "friendly" match in Jerusalem! https://t.co/Ye2WZXXGSf #ArgentinaNoVayas #Nakba70 #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/CgSXKKS9Kb
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