FIFA, the world football governing body, meets in Asunción, Paraguay for its annual Congress this week, on May 15, Nakba Day. FIFA is complicit in Israel’s ongoing Nakba against Palestinians.
Palestinians in Gaza are literally being starved to death due to Israel’s ban of all humanitarian aid and fuel.
Hundreds of Palestinian footballers have been killed by Israel’s Gaza genocide and Palestinian stadiums and sports facilities have been razed to the ground.
Israel continues to escalate and expand its brutal military occupation of the Palestinian territory, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice, and the Israel Football Association maintains teams in illegal settlements.
A year ago, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) presented a motion to FIFA calling to ban Israel over its Gaza Genocide, its illegal settlement teams and its attacks on Palestinian sports.
Meanwhile, corrupt FIFA and its shady and autocratic president Gianni Infantino continue to shield genocidal Israel from accountability.
