Grandmaster Razib boycotts Israel game

Bangladeshi Grandmaster Enamul Hossain Rajib has declared through social media that he would be boycotting Bangladesh’s 10th round game of the Chess Olympiad against Israel today.
The GM made the declaration through a Facebook post late last night, after the pairing of the round was fixed between the two countries. The 10th round match will get underway at 7:00pm Bangladesh time, with the event taking place in Budapest.
“Russia and Belarus did not get to participate as a team in the 2024 Hungary Chess Olympiad and the 2022 Chennai Chess Olympiad. Then how can Israel participate in the current situation? Tomorrow we have a game against them. I am boycotting,” read Razib’s Facebook post, accompanied by hashtags #BoycottIsrael and #StandWithJustice.