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They refused to shake hands because one of the israeli players called them all antisemites in the pre game interviews.
Ireland has a long history of supporting the palestinian cause - consistently the highest in europe - which is what the player was intentionally mischaracterising as antisemitism.
Sorry, let me get the full quote and some more context:
An official quote at a formal press interview that implicates the entire team.
See my comment you originally replied to.
If an official representative of the team slags off the other side without reason before the game, and says the entire team thinks this, with no apology or attempt to clarify that that person was wrong and only speaking for themselves, that's shitty behavior from the entire team.
The Israeli player was culture washing. The Palestinian people are a semitic people.