FIFA hypocrisy after Israel murder over 400 Palestinian footballers

The Board of Peace and FIFA have announced plans to build 55 football pitches, an academy, and a national stadium in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has murdered over 400 footballers, destroyed every football pitch in the country, and made millions of Palestinians homeless.

Yet now, a board of rich, old, and (all but one) white men is deciding Gaza’s fate. This is after supplying weapons and supporting Israel’s genocide for over two years. 

The hypocrisy is off the charts. 

Since October 2023, Israel has murdered at least 437 Palestinian footballers — and that figure could actually be far higher.

Over half of these were children.

Israel destroyed all 51 football clubs, along with 9 stadiums and the communities that came with both.

Turning pitches into graveyards

At one point, Israel bombed a football pitch at a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon, whilst 13 children were playing on it.

Israel then claimed it struck a ‘Hamas training compound’.

Of course, FIFA has turned a blind eye for over two years as Israel has murdered innocent people.

FIFA quickly suspended Russia from international tournaments after it illegally invaded Ukraine. But of course, it did not take the same action when Israel launched its full-scale genocide on Palestine.

As the Canary previously reported:

FIFA has ignored restrictions on the movement of Palestinian players and the targeting of stadiums and sports facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the imposition of Israeli clubs in settlements at the expense of Palestinian federations.

Now, FIFA is using a Trump-esque AI video. Could they create something more fucked up if they tried?

Anyway, in what world is this Gaza:

This looks more like the UAE than Gaza.The men’s attire shown above is primarily associated with Gulf states. The racist AI video generator clearly cannot distinguish between different Arab populations — and FIFA apparently didn’t bother checking what its own use of AI produced before publishing it.

Orientalism at its finest.

FIFA enabling ethnic cleansing

As if it was not bad enough that FIFA has been allowing Israel to compete internationally. Now, it is an active participant in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Israel has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians, and the West collectively ignored it. Now they’re going to jump on the graves of children to expand their capitalist empires as if Palestine has not suffered enough for the last 70 years.

We can only presume that this is some sort of soft launch for a future tournament in Israel. Of course, the powers that be – who happen to be mainly friends-of-nonces- will have no intention of including Palestine in said tournament. That’s if there are even any footballers left to invite because Israel has murdered them all.

If the board of peace, Israel, or FIFA think that a few new stadiums will make the world collectively forget the brutality of the last two years, they have another thing coming.

And who’s to say Israel would not bomb new stadiums as soon as Palestinians set foot in them? The rest of the world watches on as Israel labels whatever the hell they like Hamas targets and gets away with cold-blooded murder.

Neither a sporting governing body nor a ‘board’ made up of rich old men should be allowed any part in building on the graves of children.

Feature image via VERTEX/YouTube