Granada ahead Shon Weissman has launched a prolonged assertion lamenting his failed transfer to German aspect Fortuna Dusseldorf. The deal has collapsed because of protests from Fortuna followers, citing his views on Israeli assaults in Gaza, which have been classed as a genocide by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice.
Weissman, 29, has spent many of the final 5 years in Spanish soccer after arriving from Wolfsberger in Austria. Spending three seasons at Actual Valladolid, he would transfer to Granada, the place he additionally had a mortgage spell at Salernitana in Serie A. Weissman is because of depart Los Nazaries this summer time, and had agreed a deal to go away for Fortuna.
Fortuna Dusseldorf pull out of transfer for Weissman
Nonetheless after earlier posts from Weissman on social media emerged, Fortuna Dusseldorf followers mobilised in opposition to the signing. requesting that the membership didn’t undergo with the transfer. Weissman commented on one submit of an Israeli soldier asking to ‘shoot them within the head’, whereas in one other commented ‘ Can anybody give me one logical motive why 200 tonnes of bombs haven’t been dropped on Gaza but?’
This isn’t the Thirties. Shon Weissman wasn’t dropped for being Jewish. He was dropped as a result of he defended the mass bombing of civilians in Gaza.
That’s not “politics,” it’s accountability.
Don’t help genocide and also you received’t get boycotted. https://t.co/GRaVp3zyPP pic.twitter.com/3nRnpkJexd— Leyla Hamed (@leylahamed) August 5, 2025
After being made conscious of the posts, Fortuna introduced on social media that they’d not be pursuing the transfer, after a interval of ‘intensive consideration’.
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Wir haben uns intensiv mit Shon Weissman beschäftigt, uns aber closing entschieden, von einer Verpflichtung abzusehen.#f95 | 🔴⚪
— Fortuna Düsseldorf (@f95) August 5, 2025
Weissman responds: ‘An individual will all the time stand with their nation it doesn’t matter what’
Weissman responded to the transfer with an impassioned risk on Twitter/X, explaining that he ‘wouldn’t permit himself to be painted as an individual of hate’ over ‘3 likes and 1 remark that was deleted immediately’.
I’m a son of a nation nonetheless grieving from the horrors of October seventh. That black day, when complete households have been murdered, kidnapped, and brutalized, stays an open wound for me. as an individual, as an Israeli, and as an athlete representing my nation.
— shonweissman9 (@shonweissman9) August 5, 2025
The 29-year-old ahead went on to comment that his nation was nonetheless grieving from the terrorist assaults on the seventh of October in Israel, and that individuals exterior of Israel couldn’t perceive his perspective. He vowed to proceed representing Israel with pleasure, and would ‘stand with Israel it doesn’t matter what’ – the crux of the failed signing.
Again in 2023, after the posts made by Weissman, Osasuna followers protested in opposition to him throughout a match in opposition to Granada by displaying Palestine flags within the stands. Weissman didn’t truly play within the match because of fears over his security.
Shon Weissman’s full statements:
I’m a son of a nation nonetheless grieving from the horrors of October seventh. That black day, when complete households have been murdered, kidnapped, and brutalised, stays an open wound for me. as an individual, as an Israeli, and as an athlete representing my nation.
It’s each potential and essential to oppose hurt to harmless individuals on each side. However I received’t permit myself to be painted as somebody who promoted hate with 3 likes and 1 remark that was deleted immediately.
If that’s laborious for some to simply accept, they need to take one other have a look at what occurred on October seventh.
Whereas I settle for all criticism, it pains me that the total context was not thought of. In a second of nationwide and private heartbreak, I stay dedicated to the values of humanity, sportsmanship, and mutual respect.
On the finish of the day, an individual will all the time stand with their nation, it doesn’t matter what.
No outsider can ever really perceive what we’ve been by.
Loyalty isn’t up for debate. Particularly not when your individuals are nonetheless burying their lifeless.
I’m deeply grateful for the help I’ve acquired from individuals that really know me.
I’ll proceed to proudly carry the Israeli flag wherever I play.