{"id":20022,"date":"2018-10-27T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20022"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:24:30","slug":"11-israelis-take-part-in-uae-judo-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20022","title":{"rendered":"11 Israelis take part in UAE judo competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"91.2\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Eleven Israeli players are taking part in a judo competition in the United Arab Emirates after the tournament was temporarily suspended last year over a ban on Israeli symbols during the medal-awarding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Abu Dhabi Judo Grand-Slam, which started on Saturday and runs for three days, includes athletes from 62 countries. Israel is represented by six male and five female competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The International Judo Federation suspended the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam from its schedule, but it was reinstated in September after its UAE organisers promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/uae-judo-event-reinstated-israel-promised-equal-treatment-180904085856791.html\">equal treatment<\/a> to Israeli athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the UAE organisers had singled Israel out with a ban on displaying its flag or playing its anthem during the tournament when one of its athletes was awarded a medal.<\/p>\n<p>At the Abu Dhabi event last year, Israeli athletes competed under the IJF flag due to the UAE&#8217;s non-recognition of Israel as a state.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>In May, Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/05\/outcry-uae-bahrain-send-cycling-teams-race-held-israel-180506173715318.html\">hosted<\/a> the cycling teams of UAE and Bahrain at the 101st Giro d&#8217;Italia cycling competition in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/city\/jerusalem.html\">Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent US media reports have also revealed security cooperation between Israel and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>UAE leaders have allegedly used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/uae-israeli-spyware-hack-phones-belonging-opponents-180831113905857.html\">Israeli spyware<\/a> to spy on Gulf leaders, including the Qatari emir.<\/p>\n<p>The steps of informal normalisation between Israel and UAE come as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/lana-del-rey-cancels-israel-concert-backlash-180901093447677.html\">artists<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/06\/argentina-cancels-friendly-israel-jerusalem-180605204850600.html\">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":"<p>Eleven Israeli players are taking part in a judo competition in the United Arab Emirates after the tournament was temporarily suspended last year over a ban on Israeli symbols during the medal-awarding ceremony. The Abu Dhabi Judo Grand-Slam, which started on Saturday and runs for three days, includes athletes from 62 countries. Israel is represented&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20022","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\/20022","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=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}