MONTREAL — Protesters gathered at the foot of Mount Royal to demonstrate against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal on Sunday.

In a social media post, the groups Cyclists for Palestine, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) and Divest for Palestine called on citizens to mobilize and urged event organizers and sponsors to “exclude the team complicit in genocide from the Grands Prix in Quebec.”

The organizations accuse Israel-Premier Tech of being “complicit with the genocidal entity” and engaging in “sportswashing,” a term used when an organization uses sports to improve its reputation and cover up its wrongdoings.

The three organizations stressed that Sunday’s demonstration is a “last resort” to demand Israel-Premier Tech’s exclusion,

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