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The Price of Solidarity: How Israel Weaponized European Footvolley and the Institutions that Looked Away
Representational image of a footvolley player in action -- Charliew92, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rufus Wiena My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete. I was leaving for my safety. Hours earlier, a four-time European champion with over 25,000 Instagram followers had posted a story asking his fans what should be done with me. The res

The Left Chapter
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