Security presence has been heightened in the city to ensure that the Games are safe, and Israeli athletes have been provided with even more protection.

The sensitive data of several Israeli athletes in the Paris Olympic Games was published on Telegram in an alleged doxing attack on Friday.

A hacking group calling itself “Zeus” (likely a nod to the Games’ Greek origins) is allegedly responsible, and also purportedly leaked the military status of Israeli athletes on social media a day prior.

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6522·
    4 months ago

    Good. Many of these “athletes” served in the israeli occupation forces and will have participated in human rights abuses against Palestinians which have now become completely normalized in that society.

    Israel should not be participating in these games It is a stain on the Olympics.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      4220·
      4 months ago

      “Good”? I’ve seen some really strange takes here, but this is wild. I’m pretty sure Israel has compulsory service for nearly all citizens, so serving in the IDF isn’t exactly a choice they would have necessarily made willingly. To suggest that they deserve to be doxxed for something they had no say in is absurd.

      Point your anger at the right people.

      • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        168·
        4 months ago

        Fuck that. They have an international platform to say something against the ongoing genocide and are instead supporting it by participating under the Israeli flag.

          • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            217·
            4 months ago

            Yes. They are supporting genocide. And it’s not even “silence is compliance” but they’re literally ‘advertising’ their country during a genocide. And yes I know that the Olympics is an extremely big and important thing for athletes, but that’s exactly why you have the option to compete without representing a nation.

            • Chozo@fedia.io
              87·
              4 months ago

              And what do you think doxxing the athletes accomplishes, exactly? What good do you think comes of it? What purpose does it serve?

              • tjsauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                4 months ago

                Exactly!!! If we’re already assuming they served in the military, why do we need any more information than their name? What is the end goal of the dox?

                  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    41·
                    4 months ago

                    For the stupid people like me, what is the conversations they are trying to have. All I see is someone advocating they since they are Israeli they should be doxxed for being so.

              • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
                54·
                4 months ago

                I haven’t looked at the dox, but if they have apartments/properties outside of Israel, it’ll lead to some good ol’ vandalism. With addresses inside Israel it’s most likely gonna be harassment in the form of letters and packages. Same goes for phone numbers and email addresses.

                Essentially, make their lives as uncomfortable as possible. And because they know they’ve been doxed, it’s unlikely to lead to physical violence, because I doubt they’re stupid enough to stay at (now publicly known) addresses outside of Israel.

                • polumrak@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  4 months ago

                  Oh no, a German calling all the Jews criminals indiscriminately and calling for extreme lawless measures against “that nation of criminals”. That is such a fresh take.

                • Chozo@fedia.io
                  47·
                  4 months ago

                  And because they know they’ve been doxed, it’s unlikely to lead to physical violence, because I doubt they’re stupid enough to stay at (now publicly known) addresses outside of Israel.

                  Huh, so you’re a supporter of forcing people out of their homes when they’ve committed no crime other than have the misfortune of being born in the wrong country? Where have I seen this one before…

                  • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    74·
                    4 months ago

                    Huh, so you’re a supporter of forcing people out of their homes when they’ve committed no crime other than have the misfortune of being born in the wrong country? Where have I seen this one before…

                    Reading comprehension just isn’t your thing is it?

                    I literally said it’s about them advertising their country and not speaking out despite having the platform. It has nothing to do with where they’re born.

    • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      73·
      4 months ago

      The Olympics were literally held in Nazi Germany, they have no respectability to stain…

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      1310·
      4 months ago

      Why “athletes” in scare quotes?

      The only reason Russia isn’t directly participating in the games is their athletes are dopers. You think otherwise Russia is a stand-up country? Yet their “athletes” (?) are there.