Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.

On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.

The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.

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[–] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (41 children)

Usually take Iran's side on stuff, but this is kinda pointlessly petty tbh

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah usually I find it absurd when anti Israel (Israel, for the lobs reading this, is a murderous fascistic apartheid state actively doing a genocide) stuff is painted as antisemitism, but this is sure seems to be

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes this antisemitic? As far as I can tell, the issue is that the other competitor was an official representative of Israel, not that they were Jewish

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

should have specified that it was purely vibes based analysis, i apologize for my liberalism

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like what?

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[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Iran tackling the important issues

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Commenting so that when it turns out to be fake news I can farquaad-point

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