The grandmaster made his decision identified through a unhurried-evening Facebook put up after the match pairing between Bangladesh and Israel became confirmed.
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21 September, 2024, 02:30 pm
Final modified: 21 September, 2024, 02:34 pm
Bangladeshi Grandmaster Enamul Hossain Razib has announced by ability of social media that he might perhaps well well now not be playing in Bangladesh’s tenth spherical match against Israel within the Chess Olympiad at the present time.
The tenth spherical is scheduled to open at 7:00pm Bangladesh time in Budapest, where the occasion is taking disclose.
Razib’s put up read: “Russia and Belarus weren’t allowed to participate as groups within the 2024 Hungary Chess Olympiad and the 2022 Chennai Chess Olympiad. So how is Israel allowed to participate under the latest circumstances? The following day, we face them. I am boycotting.” His message became accompanied by the hashtags #BoycottIsrael and #StandWithJustice.
Despite the indisputable truth that Bangladesh has no diplomatic ties with Israel, encounters between sportspeople from the 2 countries, namely in chess, are rare but now not out of the ordinary.
The boycott follows sturdy resentment in Bangladesh in direction of Israeli policies, which intensified after the Hamas attack on an Israeli reside performance on 7 october final year. Israel’s subsequent retaliation has resulted within the deaths of over 40,000 of us in Gaza and assorted occupied territories.
It remains unclear if Bangladesh will field a corpulent four-member group without Razib or within the occasion that they can face any sanctions from FIDE, the governing body of chess, might perhaps well well just level-headed they resolve to now not.
Makes an try to attain Razib for extra comment were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Syed Shahabuddin Shamim, the general secretary of the Bangladesh Chess Federation at this time with the group in Budapest, became also unavailable for comment no subject a few attempts.
