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Israel 'blamed' as Australia cancels ice hockey World Championships - Michael West (michaelwest.com.au)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

“Victoria Police advised us that there was a high chance of an incident occurring during the championship due to the escalating anti-Israel sentiment in Melbourne.”

If this is true and the cops are back-peddling you'd want to hope that IHA kept the receipts because otherwise they are gonna get tossed under all the buses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think there's possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of 'incident' here.

What is meant by 'incident'? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?

I think there's probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.