US marathon runner waves Palestinian flag at Olympic trials

The Olympics have never been apolitical, and this year, athletes have already begun to make political statements ahead of the games in Paris this summer. During the Olympic marathon trials, three US athletes unfurled the Palestinian flag at the finish line. As Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unimpeded by the US and Europe, the possibility of the Paris Olympics turning into a political battleground for the international Palestinian solidarity movement grows more likely. Jesse Joseph, one of the athletes at the center of the recent display of solidarity at the Olympic trials, joins Edge of Sports to explain his and his fellow athletes' actions, and discuss how Palestine could figure in the upcoming games.
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[@fadius17]

Thank you Jesse for standing up for the palestinians

[@susanmercurio1060]

In other words, he's not a sociopath who just focuses on himself ❤️

[@paulheydarian1281]

Or herself, as in the case of the American VP, *Ms. Laughing Gas Kamala.* 😏

[@janisjackson7322]

These runners have the absolute right to protest against the sickening massacre that is taking place in Gaza which is supported by the US. Running is free as all the imprisoned people of Gaza should be free. They are running for their lives. Free Palestine now!!!

[@user-kl3hs9wy5y]

我们禁止称以色列美国在加沙进行的种族灭绝行为，这实际上是以色列美国给加沙人民带去民主自由的选择🎉

[@daltonadams4672]

​@anm2945 why?

[@tonyfincham6126]

Israel as Russia should be banned from these games till they abide by international law .

[@lyndatroidl9006]

Not@ sure what user...is trying to say...is it justification for the Gaza genocide? Sincerely hope not. Palestine 🇵🇸 forever

[@NotAPacifist825]

I assume then that all NATO countries should be similarly banned. ​@@tonyfincham6126

[@SA-km3oh]

Great gesture from Jesse 🙏

[@JavierFernandez01]

free palestine.

[@AlexAnder-oz6eg]

defender of humanity 👍🇵🇸🇳🇿

[@samara6041]

What a beautiful gesture of solidarity 🤍

[@Swan-atl]

Thank you Jesse for your activism 🙏

[@jboomhauer]

Kudos to Jesse! ❤

[@slidinghills]

Thank you for sharing this conversation. So much respect for you, Jesse.

[@fredg.sanford2951]

🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[@jamesdevlin6373]

Such a decent human being. Respect from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@user-cu2zn9dr5i]

We stand with all three of you ❤

[@christinetaia8735]

Much Respect to you Jessie for your stand for Palestine ❤️🇵🇸🕊️ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Kia Kaha ❤️🇳🇿 STAY STRONG New Zealand 🇳🇿🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸

[@seadcausevic6901]

Yes Jesse

[@Melo-rt3zk]

Respect to these marathons runners for their solidarity with innocent Palestinians ❤🇺🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@PennyFestus-wj6wm]

You go Jesse! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@maryrobby7134]

HEART OF GOLD!!!!!❤

[@user-xz1nc3vc3n]

you already got the gold as far as i am concerned

[@kateoneal4215]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!!!!!

[@raziablanchard2711]

Jessie, we have do much Respect for You. Standing up for the voiceless, we applaud 👏 You. Please please do whatever You can to get israhells banned from sports.

[@jacklanham7311]

Rock on Palestine. Love from the USA

[@paulheydarian1281]

You can be sure the U.S. Tax-Payer funded IDF is gonna *Rock* that Sh*t.

[@birdiemiller4219]

Thank you! Africa still needs to be included in the Olympics, considering all the taxes and other fees paid to France, for decades.

[@susiex6669]

God bless all those who support this righteous cause. ❤

[@DIEGOGONZALEZ-np9ed]

We need more athletes like this!!!

[@chiocampo3124]

This is bravery making a statement Jesse..i am so proud of you!

[@JavierFernandez01]

all three. wow. very cool.

[@carpediem44]

Jesse Joseph and those 3 other heroes, thank you! ❤️🖤🤍💚

[@d.i.d12]

🇵🇸🙏🏼🙌🏽💯

[@3g0st]

Excellent. I'm starting to better understand "sportswashing"

[@rachelcorrie8928]

Thank you Jesse

[@krystaln8665]

Thank you and ur fellows for running with the flag where my roots started.

[@ahmeda.3198]

Also that lady from the Athens marathon. What an incredible shot that she raises the flag as she’s about to cross the line.

[@user-ze2on2eo9e]

Jesse Joseph 👍

[@mahlataban686]

Thank you Jesse❤❤

[@mickymiller6130]

Bravo!

[@user-ov4bx4of9v]

❤Thank you for speaking up for humanity

[@trollthumpermicnastywitit2001]

That FBA energy just hit different. I see why every body appropriates our culture. Nice intro

[@logicandreasons]

Thank you and thanks for everyone in this earth who stands for justice, equality and freedom for all❤❤❤

[@bertbaker7067]

Solidarité 🇵🇸✊

[@ahmeda.3198]

Excellent discussion, thank you Jesse.

[@PacoSmith]

Thia is very encouraging. I respect his stance.

[@tothelighthouse9843]

Jesse Joseph is truly an athlete we can admire & emulate. Fantastic use of his platform. Well done, Jesse!

[@meganbaker9116]

We love you, Jesse and Dave!! ❤

[@hannaelfar4271]

These are the people that will be remembered in history

[@rikajeong4443]

Saya banyak ucapkan terimakasih kepada pelari marathon us yang mendukung perdamaian FREE Palestine dia memiliki hati & pemikiran yang bagus apa yang dilakukannya itu memberikan positif energy untuk perjuangan rakyat Palestine semoga Allah membalas kebaikannya✌️✌️❤❤❤❤✌️

[@mamadoufarissou7312]

Boycott the Olympic Games in Paris this year

[@nedkelly8495]

Sending greetings of solidarity to the athletes and to Palestine from Newzealand Aotearoa

[@mikecorbeil]

Very good episode. It is interesting to listen to this Olympic athlete, Jesse Joseph. Let us hope that the gestures they pose will do some real good for waking up more people to or about the crisis Palestinians, in what little remains of Palestine today, does real good.

[@robertstan298]

Thank you brother! And thank you TRNN, one of the few real ones left.

[@jeanwyman5421]

What a wonderful and brave man. Thank you for your gesture to peace and decency. And thank you Dave for being the greatest sports writer ever!

[@antiegonz6007]

Love this❤❤❤

[@criticalcookie2579]

Thank you for standing for those who are not able to stand for themselves.

[@MrDastardly]

Is rail doomed?

[@rachelcorrie8928]

Free PaIestine!

[@tymax6751]

Thank you, Jesse. Very enlightening.

[@user-pf7tf3rf1u]

Thank you to all 3 runners for not looking away.🇵🇸🇺🇸

[@AnarSchism.]

SHANI LOUK SAY HER NAME

[@mahlataban686]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@UTubeISphere]

Thanks, Jesse and the twobother runners, for seeing things holistically and not compartmentalising.

[@knobtata836]

The world of Sport, of Sports Competitions is international affair. Men and women representing different countries of our planet meet up in one selected place to compete with each other. They communicate with each other. They tell about their countries, their cities and towns, their customs, and they discuss important events taking place around the globe. People may feel support or disagreement concerning certain events in the world, and at these kind of events, they get a chance to exchange their views, share their experience and get facts from the witnesses. As for the participants who are taking part in the competitions, they have a special visibility: millions of eyes are watching them; so raising a flag or a banner, these heroes tell the world, that is watching them, about their values.

[@rachelcorrie8928]

This HoIo caust is being Iive streemed around the worId.

[@abedalbasha5509]

Truly impressive human being, I hope all athletes take a stand like the courageous human being.Jesse is.all the love and respect.

[@danybeland1229]

From 🇨🇦❤🇵🇸

[@user-qf1zg4zz8j]

We are all drops of water in an ocean of need but I can see that ocean filling - Thank you Jesse Joseph you represent more than a few drops.

[@heynowls3058]

I’m ashamed of the American flag and I’m ashamed to be an American. Cease fire now in Palestine.

[@user-pf7tf3rf1u]

Thanks to Dave for the term “sports washing”. I recognized the concept but never knew what to call it.

[@minion0777]

What an AMAZING country!!

[@FrissonCat]

Love it! 🇵🇸

[@jessicabosco3009]

West Bank too

[@uzmaali9746]

❤

[@kiter9271]

Someone who cares knows not to poke the bear

[@ballaemad6169]

😮

[@user-pf7tf3rf1u]

He convinced me. Ban apartheid Israel from sports.

[@AnarSchism.]

SHANI LOUK SAY HER NAME

[@Yourefreekinbrilliant]

Fine.

[@maithanhnguyen1428]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@brianc4594]

Good fellow

[@DC90X]

Really wish this show was offered as a regular RSS audio podcast, couldn't find a link on the substack.

[@therealnews]

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[@peterfisher541]

Sports and politics should be like oil and water. People go to see their fav sport to RELAX ! And take time out to focus on exceptional human endeavor and celebrate human achievement...it is our sanctuary

[@vivalaleta]

Why did you do that? Because, when you have the stage that's your opportunity to fight for Palestine!

[@JacintaPalerm]

Free Palestina. Stop genocide

[@redenacionalistaeducacaoet809]

#freepalestine

[@md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037]

"It is with great sadness that I must also conclude that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime. It is time for the international community to recognise this reality as well." Michael ben-yair, former attorney general of Israel

[@AnarSchism.]

SHANI LOUK SAY HER NAME

[@CrazyBear65]

An active duty Airman actually _immolated himself_ in front of the Israeli embassy, stating that he refused to participate in genocide. Free Palestine.

[@shawndorv8953]

Protest, Bds, raise awareness.

[@AnarSchism.]

SHANI LOUK SAY HER NAME

[@shawndorv8953]

@@AnarSchism. Rachael Corrie, Aaron Bushnell

[@AnarSchism.]

SHANI LOUK SAY HER NAME

[@stevehollahan3533]

I am usually not for mixing athletics and politics. But, thank you

[@jessicabosco3009]

Free Palestine! Im impressed!

[@user-xj2mu1vk2f]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@paulatling8844]

Stupid or psychotic? Violence and injustice wher was his protest in October

[@monologic4806]

I recall a time when palestinians made a statement at the Olympics. It was 1972 Munich. I guess these fhs would have rooted for the palestinians then, too.

[@odessafile75]

The 72 Olympics and the resultant massacre of the Israeli athletes was in Munich, not Berlin.

[@monologic4806]

@odessafile75 Thanks. IDK why I put Berlin.

[@odessafile75]

@monologic4806 they are both German cities, and you may have thought of the 1936 Berlin Olympics .

[@flynn7274]

Free Palestine!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@jerryfirth6985]

Guy obviously knows his history....Thank you Jesse Joseph ! ! GOD Bless you and protect you.... The Balfour Declaration was a public statement. issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.........This Paragraph is Copied from Wikipedia. .....(more than just a statement I'd say Wikipedia, it was the creation, of a totally new country/state, by the rich bankers of the time, by stealing lands from Palestine. who were never even approached, diplomatically, so please update your site wiki, get it right).....

[@dannysthoughts]

Americans representing America in the Olympics and no other.

[@drakekoefoed1642]

in that case they represent the first amendment of the constitution of usa.

[@dannysthoughts]

@drakekoefoed1642 In that case they are a representative of the United States of America.

[@Rufustfirefly2112]

I waved the flag of Atlantis

[@puck61luck64]

Very leftist thoughts, some good. Some not.

[@lotfyken2759]

🔯👺🔯

[@jodycordell1972]

He should be running for Palestine not USA

[@catdooley4616]

No, this is exactly the place for it. The USA is complicit in this instance and USA citizen have every right to call it out. Do you also say this to all the military members that are calling it out also?

[@futuredoc7303]

Nothing wrong with showing solidarity with a people that are being attacked horrifically thanks in large part to the USA, especially if those people showing solidarity represent the US in one way or another.

[@tedmaloof234]

And what do you think of all the politicians in the US government that have dual citizenship with isRahell? Shouldn't they go to isRahell? They don't represent American citizens if their thoughts are isRahell first.

[@drakekoefoed1642]

usa represents genocide and not free speech?

[@patthebaker2156]

Politics should be kept out of sports

[@fredg.sanford2951]

no it shouldn't

[@equinos111]

Olympics should be banned. In France?

[@DeeprajChauhan-oh8vv]

Chuslims community spreading peace everywhere

[@user-kl3hs9wy5y]

我们禁止称以色列美国在加沙进行的种族灭绝行为，这实际上是以色列美国给加沙人民带去民主自由的选择🎉