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I don't recall any of the snubbing of Russian teams/athletes back in 2022 being derided as Russophobic or suchlike.
Republic of Ireland ranked 8th most democratic nation in The Economist's Democracy Index for 2022 and termed a full democracy. Israel ranked 29th and termed a flawed democracy. There is nothing antisemitic about protesting the excesses of a flawed democracy in my opinion, or of having the freedom to find a way of resisting the boycott calls from within their own nation and finding a way to go ahead and play the game.