Tehran (IQNA)- In honor of dozens of athletes and sports clubs, the Global Campaign for the Return to Palestine has organized the “International Forum to Honor Anti-Normalization Athletes” under the slogan “Gold Medal Al -Quds” in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Fathi Nourin, an Algerian and world champion who withdrew from four different competitions after discovering he would be competing against an Israeli competitor, was punished by the International Judo Federation which stripped him of his Olympic accreditation, but he told Press TV that nothing is more significant than Palestine.
The honored athletes threw their matches in international and regional tournaments to protest against the presence of Israeli players or teams. Two chess players also had their share of a gold medal. Just like 14-year-old Mauritanian Mohammad Abdelrahman.
The Global Campaign for the Return to Palestine has stressed that it wants to launch this initiative to show that those athletes who have paid a price, whether they have been kicked out of international tournaments or deprived of important medals and precious prizes, have won the respect of people for their position in favor of Palestine and the culture of resistance.
These athletes say they decided to cancel an international competition and prize if it meant acknowledging the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime, but little do they know that in doing so they have become champions of millions of hearts across the world. Arab and Muslim world.
