Sylvan Adams with members of his team Start-Up Nation at his velodrome in Tel Aviv in June 2020 (Emmanuel Dunand - AFP) Jonathan Liew The Guardian / January 24, 2022 The soft power objective of Israeli sport is for us to focus on a cycling team or a visit by Lionel Messi rather than Palestine. In the summer of 2020 a group of five cyclists from Ramallah were out on a ride when they were stopped by a group of Israeli settlers. According to Reuters, on discovering the cyclists were Palestinian, the settlers began hurling stones at them . Four...