>> And the tower has come down. That is the al-Jalaa tower.
>> In Gaza, the Israeli Defense Force targeted a building that housed media outlets in the
Middle East. The Associated Press worked out of the al-Jalaa tower. The world will know
less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today, said their CEO.
They were given one hour to evacuate. >> My Jewish values teach me to oppose apartheid.
>> I'm always sick, I don't know. I can't do anything. All of this, what do you expect
me to do? Fix it? I'm only 10. I can't even deal with this anymore.
>> Palestinians are continuously under attack in what feels like a one-sided war.
Children are dying, and the Israeli government continues to deflect blame from their atrocities.
>> You see all of the kids around me, they're just kids. Why would you just send a missile
to them and kill them? >> Speaking of children, as of this taping,
the death toll is 192, 58 of which were kids.
The arm of sports around the globe refuses silence. Here are two players celebrating
Leicester City's triumphant FA Cup win over Chelsea with a show of solidarity. Arsenal's
Mohamed Elneny, an Egyptian midfielder for the club, posted his support for Palestine
on Instagram and Twitter, where he has more than 8 million followers combined.
Maybe the most notable athlete stateside is Brooklyn Nets superstar, Kyrie Irving.
>> My God, you guys, a lot of stuff is going on in this world. And basketball is just not
the most important thing to me right now. There's a lot of stuff going on overseas.
All my people are still in bondage all across the world, and there's a lot of dehumanization
going on.
So I apologize if I'm not gonna be focused on your questions. It's just too much going
on in the world for me to be talking about basketball.
>> Kyrie, like many of us share the feeling of helplessness, of despair, and he poured
his feelings out to the press.
>> My goal out here, my purpose is to help humanity. And I can't sit here and not address
that. I don't care which way you stand, on either side, if you're a human being, then
you would support the anti-war effort that's going on. There's a lot of people losing their
lives, children, babies, and that's just what I'm focused on.
>> I understand where Kyrie is coming from because I have likely seen what he has seen.
The non-stop death, the pictures and videos, the constant visuals of loss of life. People
being driven from their homes, where they have lived for decades and decades. The forced
occupation, folks going from a roof over their head to homeless, and the state of being a
refugee in their own country.
One cannot sit on the sidelines for the greater good.
>> Just treat every human being the way you expect to be treated, no matter who they are,
what they look like, where they come from. If you truly believe in a standing as one,
then you will stand with us in fighting against this.
>> Is it really this difficult? The inhumane conditions Palestinians must live under is
torturous. The constant firing of rockets, the air strikes, the colossal loss of life,
the limitation of civil rights, the forced entry into their homes, the forced displacement
for many, many years. Still, in global sports, there have been limitations.
Recall Elneny of Arsenal. Club sponsor Lavazza, via The Mirror and ESPN put out a statement
saying, we are concerned about the club associated with such a message. And that the company
is fully committed against racism and antisemitism. It is a talking point many do not care to
understand.
>> So now we start with Trump's wild conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel.
>> Right, I mean, I don't know what's happened to them, but they are totally anti-Israel.
Frankly, I think they're anti-Jewish. >> AnneFrank.org put it in plain writing,
criticism of Israel or of the policies of the Israeli government is not automatically
antisemitic.
For example, anyone is free to reject or criticize the Israeli government's policy regarding
the Palestinian territories. This happens in Israel too. The Jerusalem Post even wrote,
objecting to Israeli policy in Gaza and the disputed West Bank is not antisemitism. Calling
for the destruction of Israel and the death of Jews is.
The condemnation from one of the most powerful extensions of global sport, that being sponsors,
continues to keep the conversation stuck in the mud because they are firing a warning
shot to not speak out. As Dave Zirin wrote, this silence is enforced by a bipartisan consensus
that Israel has the right to defend itself, even when its military goes on offense, occupying
neighborhoods and expelling their residents.
Palestinians are never, in the eyes of the US, granted that same privilege of the right
to defense. Fears of transgressing a political consensus and of being branded as antisemitic
have bred quietude in the face of violence and occupation.
>> When you're paying attention to this, when you're aware of what's going on, you're conscious
of what's going on in the world.
And you feel it. But what are you gonna do about it? Are you gonna write about it? Are
you gonna tweet about it? Are you gonna be out there with them? Are you gonna protest?
Are you gonna plan and strategize for what we can do better as a community?
Meaning a community that stands with unity and liberation, not just for one race or one
religion, because they justify it on these means or these grounds. I'm just using this
time to really address that I'm standing with everyone that stands on the righteous things
that's going on in our world, in protecting everybody as one