FIFA, the world governing body of football, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have teamed up to shamefully ensure that genocide has a place in the Paris Games.
Today, as the first Olympic football matches kick off in Paris, there’s one team that should not be playing but is: genocidal apartheid Israel.
Israel has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Experts say that number could grow to as many as 186,000 due to the long-lasting effects of Israel’s Gaza genocide, including its war of starvation against 2.3 million Palestinians.
Among the Palestinians that Israel has killed are 69 Olympians, including Hani Al-Mossader, coach of the Palestinian Olympic football team, and Majed Abu Maraheel, the first-ever Palestinian Olympic athlete.
Let’s use this match to take action for Hani, Majed, and the hundreds of Palestinian athletes killed in Gaza.
During the Israel v Mali match today, keep the spotlight on Israel’s Gaza Genocide
The Western-controlled IOC has ignored calls to exclude Israel from the Olympics from the Palestinian Olympic Committee, over one million people around the world, members of parliament, international athletes, and Mandla Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson.
Last week, FIFA stepped in to postpone a decision on banning Israel from world football until after the Olympics, shielding Israel from accountability and ignoring calls from hundreds of thousands, including footballers and athletes from Gaza.
The International Court Of Justice has ruled that international bodies such as the IOC and FIFA have an obligation not to recognize or facilitate Israel’s trifecta of grave crimes against Palestinians: war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Join us as we pledge No Olympics As Usual.
Stay tuned for more action during the Olympics