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Act now as European football shamefully votes on Israel joining its Executive Committee

Following calls to boycott, Italian sportswear company has withdrawn from a sponsorship contract with the Israel Football Association. Palestinians urge new sponsor Reebok to withdraw or face boycotts, as Erreà, PUMA and Adidas before them.

Israel is carrying out large scale military aggression in the illegally occupied West Bank. This comes just days after a shaky Gaza ceasefire agreement that Israel’s far-right government was finally forced to accept, according to Israeli media reports, following its failure to achieve its main objectives from its ongoing genocide.

On January 1, 2025, Italian sportswear company Erreà will enter into a sponsorship contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA) as Israel escalates the unspeakable horrors of its genocide in Gaza. Erreà will take over from the German multinational PUMA. In December 2023, PUMAleaked news that it would not be renewing its contract with the IFA following a 5-year global boycott campaign over the IFA’s complicity in Israel’s decades-long apartheid regime and military occupation, and more recently, its Gaza genocide.

Israel’s unspeakable horrors against Palestinians in Gaza continue unabated, emboldened by the complicity of international organizations such as FIFA.

Corrupt FIFA was forced, thanks to you and many around the world, to finally hold its vote on banning genocidal apartheid Israel last week. FIFA first hijacked the General Assembly vote last May in order to restrict the vote to the FIFA Council. It then postponed the Council vote, not once but twice!

The FIFA Council is set to vote on October 3 on whether genocidal apartheid Israel should be banned from world football. Banning Israel from FIFA should be a no brainer.

Israel has killed at least 410 Palestinian athletes in its Gaza genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians and destroyed or damaged all sporting facilities there.