{"id":13903,"date":"2018-09-05T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2018-09-05T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:24:13","slug":"uae-judo-event-reinstated-after-israel-promised-equal-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13903","title":{"rendered":"UAE judo event reinstated after Israel promised equal treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An international judo competition in the United Arab Emirates<\/a> has been reinstated after organisers promised that all participating nations, including Israel<\/a>, will compete under equal conditions at the three-day event next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The International Judo Federation (IJF), the sport’s governing body, confirmed<\/a> in a statement on Monday that the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2018, which was suspended in July, will now take place from October 27-29.\u00a0<\/p>\n

IJF said the “historic decision will allow all nations to display their national insignia and national anthem, including Israel”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lauding the commitment by the UAE Judo Federation, which made its pledge in a letter, IJF said “the fair play, mutual friendship and respect” shown by Emirati authorities represent a “huge step forward in establishing and promoting peaceful relationships between all nations of the world”.<\/p>\n

In July, the federation had stripped<\/a> both the UAE and Tunisia<\/a> from hosting their respective tournaments over discrimination at past events, urging the two nations to guarantee equal treatment of all member nations.<\/p>\n

IJF, in its statement at the time, did not specifically mention Israel being denied raising its flag and playing the national anthem in the two Arab countries.<\/p>\n

At the Abu Dhabi event last year, Israeli athletes competed under the IJF flag due to the UAE’s non-recognition of Israel as a state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Normalisation of ties’\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The UAE, like many Arab countries, does not have diplomatic and economic relations with Israel. But there have been signs of normalisation of ties, especially on the sporting field.<\/p>\n

Miri Regev,\u00a0Israel’s culture and sports minister, welcomed the UAE’s decision.<\/p>\n

“The first flag of Israel in Abu Dhabi. Honour!” she wrote<\/a> on Twitter on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Israeli athletes will now be accorded the respect and dignity that all other athletes are accustomed to,” Regev said in a video message<\/a> on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n

In May, Israel hosted<\/a>\u00a0the cycling teams of UAE and Bahrain at the 101st Giro d’Italia cycling competition in Jerusalem<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recent US media reports have also revealed security cooperation between Israel and the UAE.<\/p>\n

UAE leaders\u00a0have allegedly used<\/a>\u00a0Israeli spyware to spy on Gulf leaders, including the Qatari emir.<\/p>\n

The steps of informal normalisation between Israel and UAE come as artists<\/a> and sports teams<\/a> refuse to participate in activities held in Israel in protest against its occupation of the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An international judo competition in the United Arab Emirates has been reinstated after organisers promised that all participating nations, including Israel, will compete under equal conditions at the three-day event next month.\u00a0 The International Judo Federation (IJF), the sport’s governing body, confirmed in a statement on Monday that the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2018, which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}