Paris Olympics: Support for Palestine on display at the Parc des Princes during the Mali-Israel football match

The first national anthems have barely resounded in the arenas of the Olympic Games of generalized cynicism, when the West is already draping itself in the banner of infamy… In Washington, by offering an unthinkable platform to the butcher of Gaza, Benyamin Netanyahu, under the dome of the Capitol; in Paris, by reserving for the athletes of the genocidal Israeli state an intolerable preferential treatment, from which the Russian athletes, doomed to the pillory, did not benefit.

The games of the circus of the City of Light have not yet been officially inaugurated, with a grandiose enchantment, which will only dazzle those who have blinkers on their eyes, that they are already gangrened by an odious double standard.

If it is fashionable at the Paris Olympics to brandish the Israeli flag stained with the blood of thousands of Palestinian martyrs, in the stands of the stadiums, particularly at the Parc des Princes, the response is ready-made… Fervent support for Palestine is on display for all to see and is heard, as was the case yesterday by supporters who came to watch the Israel-Mali football match. They booed the Israeli anthem, while unfurling Palestinian banners and chanting the slogan “Free Palestine” with their T-shirt.

We do not know what will remain of these Olympic Games of trivialized Western hypocrisy, except that their double standards, of which the oligarch Macron proudly makes himself the standard-bearer, are of an unheard-of violence so immoral they are.