Malaysia’s conservative Islamic Party demanded that the government expel an Israeli table tennis team from the country or face “undesirable consequences.” Men’s and women’s teams from the Jewish state have been playing in the weeklong World Team Table Tennis Team Championship in Kuala Lumpur since Sunday.
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