The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid has placed Israeli tennis star Shlomo Glickstein and other Israeli athletes on a blacklist of 350 sportsmen who compete in South Africa. The list includes athletes from 30 countries.
The Committee, in a report issued here this week, named the following Israeli athletes and teams as collaborating with South Africa: Limor Friedman, in gymnastics; the Petah Tikva soccer team; and the Alpha-Beton volleyball team. Tennis players, in addition to Glickstein who were named only with their first initials and last names are: J. Shenish, O. Jacob, A. Green and T. Frischer.
The Committee accused the U.S. and Britain of being “the main collaborators” in the field of sports with South Africa, where Blacks and whites are segregated by law. The Committee did not call for any measures to be applied against the athletes who played in South Africa, but said that “those who profess to abhor apartheid, and continue to collaborate with South Africa, must be exposed.”
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