The world has come to realize that we cannot separate sports and politics, but is fair to harass individual athletes for the policies of their homeland? That, it seems, is what is happening to Sahar Peer, an Israeli tennis star. Apparently boisterous peace protesters are heckling her at every match at the Australian Open and prior to that at a tournament
in New Zealand. The protesters are heckling Peer because of "Israeli human rights
abuses against Palestinians."
One has to wonder why it is that these protesters focus on Peer when there are many players from other countries (China and Russia) with terrible records of human rights abuse. Is it about human rights or antisemitism?
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