Balls, Boycotts and Bullets: Israel at Play

by Declan Hayes

Following on from Hitler's Jewish Golfers: Zionism's Irsh face, acclaimed Irish academic Dr Declan Hayes now broadens his examination of Zionism at play to consider the various roles Jews, Zionists and Israel have played in sports from baseball, basketball and soccer to golf, weight-lifting and Gaelic and American football. As well as cataloguing the decades of unspeakable torture Israel subjected Jordanian weight-lifer Nader Afouri to and Israel's murder of soccer-loving Palestinian children, Hayes traces Israel's main sporting societies back to their pre-Independence days as serial, sectarian killers. Although Hayes tracks the various successes of Jews, Zionists and Israel on and off the pitch, he binds all of their experiences together by his emphasis on the violent Zionist creed of muscular Jewry and their emphasis on the Zionist project, which got them to bribe, bully and lie to FIFA as early as the 1930s, when they dishonestly secured FIFA membership and immediately set about having Syria, Lebanon and Turkey banned. Hayes also compares and contrasts Israel's enthusiastic, if somewhat hypocritical support for NATO-led boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns with its reactions when Israel finds itself in the same sort of cross hairs. Although Hayes does acknowledge and praise the contributions a large number of Jewish athletes have made to a great many games over the years, he concludes that Zionism's obsessive mission of conquest, coupled with the self-enrichment tactics of many individual Jews, have negated all of that.In a long and distinguished career, Dr Hayes has lectured in finance at both undergraduate and graduate level in leading universities and to Fortune 500 companies in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Here follows what the media and establishment politicians think of his peace process efforts: Declan Hayes is a notorious Assad supporter: Huge Gye, The Sun.A dangerous extremist: The Sunday Times.A controversial academic who writes for a think-tank run by a Vladimir Putin ally: Mail on Sunday.An Assad apologist... on an Interpol watchlist: Mail on Sunday.Assad and Putin apologist Declan Hayes: James Bickerton, political editor of Backbencher.An alleged member of a Putin-linked policy group: Daily Mail.Dangerous Assad apologist: Sunday Express.An apologist for tyrant Bashar Assad: Marco Giannangeli, Sunday Express.A dangerous extremist: Sunday Express.The fact that the leader of the (British) opposition was getting advice from someone (Hayes) who is peddling the Russian story is worrying and distressing: Col Hamish de Bretton Gordon.Hayes' views on the merits of NATO and Western values, and the democratic freedoms that NATO seeks to protect, will not give any comfort to those whose duty it is to protect the UK. Frankly, it's dangerous: Crispin Blunt, MP.Some of Declan Hayes' views on the situation in Syria tend to be very one-sided, so some of what he says and writes should be treated with caution: Commandant Edward Horgan, former military commander of Portlaoise Concentration Camp, Ireland.Regime supporter Declan Hayes said he was proud to have spent the last three months with the Syrian Arab Army: Mark Boothroyd, British coordinator for Syrian terrorist support groups.Declan Hayes, a notorious Assad apologist: Order-Order, a notorious far-right website.

122 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2019