“Victoria Police advised us that there was a high chance of an incident occurring during the championship due to the escalating anti-Israel sentiment in Melbourne.”
If this is true and the cops are back-peddling you’d want to hope that IHA kept the receipts because otherwise they are gonna get tossed under all the buses.
I think there’s possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of ‘incident’ here.
What is meant by ‘incident’? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?
I think there’s probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.
Solution: Kick Israel out of the contest. They should be barred from the international stage entirely.
