Jack Anderson: Amid crimes against humanity, sport has been largely silent and played on

Surely now for international sport, there cannot be a wrong argument when it comes to the need to do something, anything, symbolic, meaningful or otherwise to condemn what is happening in Gaza?

Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy en route to Gaza City, in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Pic: AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi

Teaching sports law in a law faculty is a bit like teaching PE at a school or being a sports journalist, most of the time you are dismissed as the toy department. 

This week, in contrast, a bunch of truly serious, global scholars (in international law) came together to issue a resolution calling on Israel to “immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.”