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If you think football shouldn't support genocide, tell FIFA to ban Israel

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Despite Israel committing genocide in occupied Gaza for at least 19 months, international cultural institutions from FIFA to the Eurovision Song Contest have refused to ban the apartheid state from participating. This helps Israel to ‘sportswash‘ and ‘artwash‘ its heinous war crimes against Palestinians. FIFA must ban Israel The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called on people to: Take action in advance of the upcoming FIFA Congress on 15 May …

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Palestinian children playing football in Gaza City / AFP FIFA, the governing body of world football, is meeting this week in Asunción, Paraguay, to hold its annual Congress on May 15, casually on Nakba Day. From the BDS Movement (Boicot Disinvestment and Sanctions) they reiterate the call for the expulsion of Israel from FIFA, something that happened, for example, with Russia immediately after its attack on Ukraine in 2022. By ANRed. Both FIFA a…

The Palestinian women in Gaza are literally starving because of Israel's ban on all humanitarian aid and fuel. Hundreds of Palestinian footballers were killed by the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Palestinian sports stadiums and facilities were razed. Israel continues to intensify and expand its brutal military occupation of the Palestinian territory, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice, and the Israeli Football Federation maintai…

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BDS France broke the news in on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
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