Palestinians welcome the courageous stands of international athletes and teams refusing to normalize Israeli apartheid and denouncing the hypocrisy of selective action by Western-dominated international sporting bodies in cases of grave human rights violations. Sporting bodies governing football, tennis, swimming, judo, fencing, rugby, volleyball, athletics, basketball, cycling, rowing, boxing, gymnastics and others enacted swift sanctions against Russia over its illegal aggression against Ukraine merely weeks into its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Athletes using their platforms to stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people have been cheered and celebrated by these bodies. Yet, many of these same bodies, including FIFA ,...