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		<title>IOC and FIFA must ban United States and Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following text is from Black Alliance for Peace, and has been used with their permission. En français ci-dessous &#160; Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Must Demonstrate a Commitment to Universal Human Rights by Banning the United States and Israel from Hosting or Participating in International Sporting Events [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The following text is from Black Alliance for Peace, and has been used with their permission. </em><br />
<em>En français ci-dessous</em></p>
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<p><strong>Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Must Demonstrate a Commitment to Universal Human Rights by Banning the United States and Israel from Hosting or Participating in International Sporting Events</strong></p>
<p>The United States has become dangerous for members of the global community, and specifically for non-white/non-European people. The world is witnessing massive violations of human rights and the Constitution of the United States as masked agents using unmarked vehicles raid work places, homes, and places of public assembly to incarcerate and disappear Black, Brown, and Indigenous people and, in too many cases, denying them legal representation and basic information as to their whereabouts and wellbeing to their families and attorneys.</p>
<p>Under the current U.S administration anyone suspected of residing in and/or visiting the United States with or without “proper” documentation, including U.S. citizens, are being harassed, questioned about their political beliefs and even detained without due process. This repressive environment has created a sense of insecurity and anxiety for travelers to the U.S. including students, and even some diplomats of “foreign nations.” Even individuals while in transit to other countries have been subjected to harassment and intimidation.</p>
<p>But this is just part of the story.</p>
<p>The State of Israel, with direct assistance from the United States, is committing gross and profound violations of human rights and international law through military adventures, and carrying out an ongoing genocide in addition to other war crimes including, but not limited to collective punishment and starvation. This is on top of Israel’s eight decade pogrom of apartheid against the Palestinian people, as well as a perpetual disregard for the sovereignty and self determination of the Lebanese, Yemeni, Syrian, and Iranian people and their respective governments and bodies of leadership. The global community, everyday, witnesses Israel’s wanton slaughter of people and pillage of lives with the full endorsement of the United States which continues to fund, arm, and promote Israel’s tactics of terror and barbarity.</p>
<p>Both FIFA and the IOC have previously denied the hosting of, and participation in international events for nations and governments who have acted in ways they deem antithetical to their stated core values of human rights, anti-discrimination and global sustainability. For instance, both IOC and FIFA banned Germany and Japan from international competition following the second world war. Additionally, IOC banned the Republic of South Africa from participating in the Olympic Games from 1964 to 1992 due to the nation’s racist system of apartheid, and FIFA banned the nation from participating in its matches between 1961 and 1992 for the same reason. And, more recently, the IOC has instituted a standing ban on the Russian Federation from participating in its summer and winter games due to what is deemed an illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine.</p>
<p>This raises the question as to why FIFA and IOC are affording the United States and the State of Israel with preferential treatment over other nations who have been and are currently sanctioned and banned from competition and the hosting of international sporting events for violations of the core values of both bodies.</p>
<p>Therefore, we, the undersigned, as members of the global community and people/institutions of conscience demand that FIFA and IOC withdraw the United States and the State of Israel from hosting or participating in international competition events until such time that both nations demonstrate a willingness to adhere to each agency’s core values and further operate in ways that adhere to international law and human rights.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">No sports-washing genocide, war crimes and apartheid.<br />
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-world-cup-or-olympics-in-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Call on FIFA and IOC to ban USA and Israel</a></h3>
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<p><strong>La Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) et le Comité International Olympique (CIO) doivent manifester leur engagement en faveur des droits humains universels en excluant les États-Unis et Israël de l’organisation et de la participation à des manifestations sportives internationales</strong></p>
<p>Les États-Unis sont devenus une menace pour les membres de la communauté internationale, en particulier pour les personnes non blanches/non européennes. Le monde assiste à des violations massives des droits humains et de l&#8217;état de droit ancré dans la constitution des États-unis : alors que des agents masqués à bord de véhicules banalisés font irruption sur les lieux de travail, les domiciles et les lieux publics pour arrêter et faire disparaître des personnes noires, racisées et autochtones, refusant dans de trop nombreux cas à leurs familles et à leurs avocats l&#8217;accès à un·e représentant·e légal et à des informations élémentaires quant à leur sort et leur état de santé.</p>
<p>Sous l&#8217;administration États-Uniennes actuelle, toute personne soupçonnée de résider ou de séjourner aux États-Unis avec ou sans papiers en règle, y compris des citoyen·nes états-unien·nes légalement documenté·es, est harcelée, interrogée sur ses opinions politiques et même détenue sans procédure légale. Ce climat répressif a créé un sentiment d&#8217;insécurité et d&#8217;anxiété chez des personnes voyageant aux États-Unis, y compris les étudiant·es, et même chez certain·es diplomates de nations étrangères. Même des personnes en transit vers d&#8217;autres pays ont été victimes de harcèlement et d&#8217;intimidation.</p>
<p>Mais ce n&#8217;est qu&#8217;une partie de l&#8217;histoire.</p>
<p>L&#8217;État d&#8217;Israël, avec l&#8217;aide directe des États-Unis, commet des violations flagrantes et sévères des droits humains et du droit international à travers ses opérations militaires, et perpétue un génocide en plus de mener d&#8217;autres crimes de guerre, incluant, mais sans s&#8217;y limiter, des punitions collectives et l&#8217;utilisation de la famine comme une arme de guerre. Ce n&#8217;est que le point d&#8217;orgue des huit décennies d&#8217;apartheid perpétré par Israël contre le peuple palestinien, ainsi que de son mépris perpétuel pour la souveraineté et l&#8217;autodétermination des peuples libanais, yéménite, syrien et iranien et de leurs gouvernements et dirigeants respectifs. La communauté internationale est chaque jour témoin du massacre arbitraire de civils et du saccage de vies humaines par Israël, avec le soutien total des États-Unis, qui continuent de financer, d&#8217;armer et de promouvoir les tactiques terroristes et barbares d&#8217;Israël.</p>
<p>Tant la FIFA que le CIO ont par le passé refusé d&#8217;accueillir ou de participer à des événements internationaux organisés par des nations ou des gouvernements ayant agi d&#8217;une manière jugée contraire aux valeurs fondamentales défendues par ces organisations, à savoir les droits humains, la lutte contre la discrimination et la durabilité à l’échelle mondiale. Par exemple, tant le CIO que la FIFA ont interdit à l&#8217;Allemagne et au Japon de participer à des compétitions internationales après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ailleurs, le CIO a interdit à la République d&#8217;Afrique du Sud de participer aux Jeux olympiques entre 1964 et 1992 en raison du système raciste d&#8217;apartheid en vigueur dans ce pays. De son côté, la FIFA a interdit à ce pays de participer à ses matchs entre 1961 et 1992 pour la même raison. Plus récemment, le CIO a interdit à la Fédération de Russie de participer à ses jeux d&#8217;été et d&#8217;hiver en raison de ce qu&#8217;elle considère être une invasion et une occupation illégales de l&#8217;Ukraine.</p>
<p>Cela soulève la question suivante : pourquoi la FIFA et le CIO accordent-ils un traitement préférentiel aux États-Unis et à l&#8217;État d&#8217;Israël, alors que d&#8217;autres nations ont été ou sont actuellement sanctionnées et interdites de compétition et d&#8217;organisation d&#8217;événements sportifs internationaux pour avoir violé les valeurs fondamentales de ces deux instances ?</p>
<p><em>Par conséquent, nous, soussigné·es, en tant que membres de la communauté mondiale et personnes/institutions de conscience, exigeons que la FIFA et le CIO excluent les États-Unis et l&#8217;État d&#8217;Israël de l&#8217;organisation ou de la participation à des compétitions internationales jusqu&#8217;à ce que ces deux nations démontrent leur volonté d&#8217;adhérer aux valeurs fondamentales de chaque agence et d&#8217;agir de manière conforme au droit international et aux droits humains.</em></p>
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		<title>Call on the Asian Football Confederation: Insist FIFA suspend Israeli Football Association</title>
		<link>https://kickoutapartheid.org/call-on-the-asian-football-confederation-insist-fifa-suspend-israeli-football-association/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jordana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 01:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for hosting this event in one of its member countries. It is exciting this is the first time the World Cup will be hosted by an Arab country. Momentum is building with support for wearing Palestine arm bands among Arab teams—ask the AFC and its members to support [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for hosting this event in one of its member countries. It is exciting this is the first time the World Cup will be hosted by an Arab country.</p>
<p>Momentum is building with support for wearing Palestine arm bands among Arab teams—ask the AFC and its members to support this.</p>
<p>Keffiyehs and Palestine flags in the stadiums and on the streets show the strong support for ending the double standards for the Palestinian Football Association.</p>
<p><a href="https://kickoutapartheid.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AFC-stand-with-PFA-Nov-10-2022.pdf">We have written to AFC</a> telling them now is the time that the AFC hold FIFA and the UEFA accountable to suspend the Israeli Football Association its violations of the FIFA and UEFA statues.</p>
<p>President Al Khalifa as a FIFA Senior Vice-President needs to speak out and act with integrity. All members of the AFC need to insist President Al Khalifa acts.</p>
<p><strong>Take one-minute to write to the AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa and AFC General Secretary Datuk Seri Windsor John, and Asian Football Associations that you call on them to stand with Palestine.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-letter-to-the-asian-football-federation-afc-in-support-of-the-palestinian-football-association?source=direct_link&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Write your own letter</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For many years, the Israeli Football Association has been in</strong> <strong>serious breach of FIFA’s own statutes as they relate to human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality for the promotion of football in a globally accessible and unifying manner.</strong></p>
<p>FIFA has failed repeatedly for many years to address the Palestinian Football Association’s (PFA) documented complaints.</p>
<p><strong>The Count Down is On. It is now the time for the AFC to take the lead given the Palestinian Football Association (FPA) is one of its members.</strong></p>
<p>IFA was kicked out of AFC for its violations related to human rights, anti-discrimination, and inequality, and still the UEFA and FIFA has tolerated these violations for three decades.</p>
<p>This situation warrants the severest sanctions against IFA now. IFA did not learn the lesson because it feels it’s above the law and therefore is emboldened to continue its racism and breach of the rules with impunity. Allowing IFA to sport wash an apartheid state is a stain and embarrassment to all who care about the sport of football.</p>
<p><strong>Initiating organizations</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://bdscoalition.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Canadian BDS Coalition</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Just Peace Advocates</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.fosna.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Friends of Sabeel North America</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/palestinehouse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Palestine House (Palestinian Canadian Community Centre)</a></p>
<h5 class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://twitter.com/AdvocatesJust/status/1582847313260601344" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">#KickOutApartheid</a></h5>
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		<title>Breach of FIFA’s own statutes as they relate to human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality</title>
		<link>https://kickoutapartheid.org/breach-of-fifas-own-statutes-as-they-relate-to-human-rights-anti-discrimination-and-equality/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jordana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost 100 organizations and more than 700 individual have written to President Infantino and Secretary General Samoura concerning a serious breach of FIFA’s own statutes as they relate to human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality for the promotion of football in a globally accessible and unifying manner. See the letter below. The statement is also  available in Arabic, Spanish and French Read [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost 100 organizations and more than 700 individual have written to President Infantino and Secretary General Samoura concerning a<strong> serious breach of FIFA’s own statutes as they relate to human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality for the promotion of football in a globally accessible and unifying manner.</strong> See the letter below.</p>
<p>The statement is also  available in <a href="https://kickoutapartheid.org/fifa-campaign-kick-out-apartheid/">Arabic, Spanish and French</a></p>
<p><a href="https://kickoutapartheid.org/fifa-campaign-kick-out-apartheid/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read more</a> about the campaign</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs5gPlJaL96PJ3OrgjQ2Gjg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">View webinar</a> in English, Arabic, and Spanish on our YouTube Channel.</p>
<p>Read the letter below: (<a href="https://kickoutapartheid.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Letter-to-FIFA-from-international-community-June-17-2022-1.pdf">Download the letter</a>)</p>
<a href="https://kickoutapartheid.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Letter-to-FIFA-from-international-community-June-17-2022-1.pdf" class="pdfemb-viewer" style="" data-width="max" data-height="max" data-toolbar="bottom" data-toolbar-fixed="on">Letter-to-FIFA-from-international-community-June-17-2022-1</a>
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