A dispute between Israel and Ireland’s women’s basketball flared into the open on Thursday as they assembled to play the 2025 EuroBasket qualifier.
The Ireland team refused to shake hands with the Israeli team as teams normally do before or after the game. You can see here before the square-off how the Israel team comes out to line up for the normal exchange, but the Irish team just ignores them in a disgusting lack of sportsmanship.
Losers on and off the field 👎🏻
In an incredibly racist & unsportsmanlike behavior, the Irish Women’s Basketball team (@BballIrl) refused to shake hands with their Israeli opponents in the #EuroBasketWomen game.
Oh, and then they also lost to Israel 57-87! pic.twitter.com/RofqT8f20B
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 9, 2024
The backstory was that there had been a talk of Ireland boycotting the game over the Israel-Hamas war. The…
