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VIDEO: Jewish Olympics Widows To IOC: "Shame On You For Anti-Semitism"
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Joel Leyden Jerusalem, Israel --- August 7, 2012 ... After being ignored by the IOC for 40 years, after countless pleas, petitions from over 100,000 people and world leaders the relatives of the Munich Olympic terror victims spoke out last night. "Shame on you IOC, because you have forgotten 11 members of the Olympic Family." The widow of Israeli fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, Ankie Spitzer continued: "You're discriminating against them only because they are Israelis and Jews."
To a standing ovation in London and a seated, red faced IOC President Jacques Rogge, Spitzer stated: "We will come back until we hear the words you need to say because you owe them. Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Sometimes I wonder if I am the last person left who believes in the Olympic ideals." "Is the IOC only interested in power, money and politics? Did they forget they are supposed to promote peace, brotherhood and fair play?" "My husband Andre was chosen to go to the Olympics, probably with the same dreams as Jacques Rogge and Seb Coe when they went to the Games - the only difference is our loved ones came home in coffins. "But they were members of the same Olympic Family and that is why we want them remembered as such. "Not here in this beautiful Guildhall, not in the Hilton Hotel in Beijing, not in the backyard of our ambassador in Athens, but within the Olympic framework." The IOC had bowed to Arab terrorism once again, this time in the form of political terrorism where 40 Arab nations threatened to boycott the London Olympics if there was any mention in the Olympic stadium of the Jews who were murdered in 1972. “We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” Rogge said a week before the London Olympics were to start. Yet, there were two separate minutes of silence during the Opening Ceremony for British soldiers and British citizens who died during the 7/7 Islamic terror bombings in London. The IOC in preserving the Games, may have had very little choice by choosing Arabs over dead Olympic heroes. The International Olympic Committee will have one final chance to set things right at the London Olympics Closing Ceremony. We will all finally know if it was Arab political blackmail or truly an IOC which embraces anti-semitism and discrimination which has buried a moment of silence for murdered Jewish Olympians. A petition containing hundreds of signatures from the group Minute4Israel.com requesting that the IOC provide a Minute of Silence for the Munich 11 at the London Olympics Closing Ceremony will be handed to Jacques Rogge this week. We encourage every reader to take one minute and enter their name on this petition which is located below.
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