New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- In the two years since Israel began its indiscriminate killing of civilians in Gaza and buried the city under bombs, many people from all walks of life have raised their voices against the atrocities-from doctors to dock workers, actors and professors, writers and musicians, and indeed, Jewish organisations and groups of holocaust survivors. Even as the political establishments of countries like the US and Great Britain laid bare their total moral collapse, choosing political expediency over the killing of babies, children and women, ordinary people have taken to the streets for Palestine across the world.

There is only one community whose silence on the issue has been deafening-sportspeople.

Except a handful of at...