An unprecedented attack by supporters of Zionism in the West on athletes who support the Palestinian nation.
Westerners, who always claimed that sport is not political, have resorted to different ways, including threatening to kill these athletes, after expressing sympathy and solidarity with the oppressed people of Gaza.
In a report about this, Al Jazeera added: Karim Benzema – a French football player of Algerian origin – is at the top of those who have been the target of this unprecedented attack.
Benzema expressed his sympathy with the residents of Gaza on his page X (Twitter), which has received 47 million visitors, and this is the reason why the former French minister Tadin Murano accused him of being a mercenary for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Valerie Boyer has also asked the French senators to take away Benzema’s French citizenship.
Nasir Mezrawi, Moroccan football star and Bayern Munich team player, also wished the Palestinian nation to win over the Israeli regime. One of the representatives of the German Parliament demanded his expulsion from the Bayern Munich club and Germany, and the German Bild newspaper also accused him of supporting terrorism, but Mezrawi did not back down from his position in supporting Gaza.
Youssef Attal, a player at the international level from Algeria and a player for the Nice club in France, has also criticized the occupying government in several articles he has published.
Eric Ciotti has asked French politicians to take action against Youssef Atal.
Anwar al-Ghazi is also a Dutch and Moroccan player whose contract with the German club Mainz was terminated after the club’s fans attacked him.
Anas Jaber, the Tunisian tennis star, was not spared from this attack because she was threatened to prevent her from participating in the Professional Women’s League Cup after the official complaint of the Israel Tennis Federation.
The European Union also punished the Egyptian swimmer Abd al-Rahman Sameh by removing his picture from the official pages of this union. Sameh confirmed that he was threatened with death because he supported Palestine.
Mesut Özil, the former star of the Real Madrid club, was not spared from these attacks and published a tweet with the flags of Turkey and Palestine. His fans censured him after his actions.