Fighting to get Israel sanctioned at
@FIFAcom
for gross violations of FIFA Statutes, serious foul play and violent conduct. Creator of Red Card Israel Letter ⬇
We broke the Action Network! Due to the 7.2 MILLION letters YOU sent
@FIFAcom
, we are unable to update the text to reflect FIFA's CONSTANT delays. But while FIFA keeps time-wasting, this letter's still open! New emails will still get to them!
@FIFA
doesn't want you to know it can expel Israel on Saturday 20th July for gross violations of its own Statutes and Palestinian human rights. Please take 10 seconds to tell its Council Members to urgently
#RedCardIsrael
to isolate it internationally
@fifa
Thanks for all the support🩷. 800,000+ letters sent in 24 hours! Please keep putting pressure on the decision makers to URGENTLY expel Israel from
@FIFAcom
via They cannot delay this meeting!
Just a reminder that Russia was banned from
@FIFAcom
the day before the players' union
@FIFPRO
reported Russia had killed its first 2 Ukrainain footballers.
Israel has killed 297 Palestinian footballers and all FIFA can do is hit snooze on the legal case to ban it.
Our thoughts are with the families, friends, and teammates of young Ukrainian footballers Vitalii Sapylo (21) and Dmytro Martynenko (25), football’s first reported losses in this war.
May they both rest in peace.
Thanks to your actions, we have sent 1.2+ million letters to
@FIFAcom
in one day🙌...incredible effort! Let's get it to 2 million! FIFA cannot keep delaying the inevitable sanctioning of Israeli teams- the need to
#RedCardIsrael
is urgent to isolate it internationally!
A must-watch on how
@FIFAcom
's decision to delay Israeli sanctions is only punishing Palestinians- from one of the sports journalists at the heart of the issue
@AbubakerAbedW
.
🗣️"Only one of Gaza's ten stadiums remains intact. At the same time, almost every club in Gaza has been destroyed. This war has been the deadliest...the most demolishing."
Talking on the importance of banning Israel from FIFA on
@AJEnglish
Breaking: Shameless
@FIFAcom
deliberately delays the opportunity to
#RedCardIsrael
by 43 days, so Israel can go to the
@Olympics
. Angry about this?…. In the meantime, perhaps we can speed things up if we go to VAR?
...in just 4 days. Every time you extend your deadline
@FIFAcom
, we extend ours📩. P.s. yesterday's ICJ ruling that "All states and international organizations must end any aid or assistance to the occupation" applies to you.
#RedCardIsrael
now
Dear
@FIFAcom
how much more suffering needs to happen before you
#RedCardIsrael
? You have the power to help end this TOMORROW at your Council meeting. I'll leave this here:
You can't spell
@FIFAcom
without them.
- 313 footballers killed in 365 days
- Football grounds used as concentration camps + mass graves
- Gross violations of
#FIFA
Statutes & int. law- including 9 clubs with operations on Palestinian land.
Link in bio to make it 8 million.
A reminder that while
@CelticFC
fans do this for Palestine, their club is yet to issue a word. Today we ask that you reach out to ask them to make a statement in solidarity, to raise funds and to build relations with Palestinian teams.
PublicRelations
@celticfc
.co.uk
Footballers: your silence speaks volumes. Is another type of footballer not possible—one who speaks out against injustice, instead of being willfully silenced by the chains of capitalism that got us here?
#StandWithGaza
#HumanityOverProfit
Breaking:
@FIFAcom
once again shows it is devoid of leadership and morals but fully complicit in genocide by delaying the opportunity to
#RedCardIsrael
Calling all
@England
fans. Did you know that the Chair of the FA, Debbie Hewitt is also the FIFA Vice-President? She doesn't want you to know she can vote to
#RedCardIsrael
this afternoon in solidarity with Palestinians. The vote will happen at 1pm.
So
@FIFAcom
, yesterday
@hrw
@Avaaz
@fairsqprojects
and
@UN
experts told you to expel Israel from football. Israel has illegal settlement clubs, football's used a tool for colonial expansion and to motivate IOF to commit genocide.
Genuine question: what do you need more time for?
This statement is a lie
-Sources informed me the legal assessment was already submitted to FIFA a week ago. The NYT corroborates this.
-Both parties agreed on an extension of 9 days, not 43 days.
FIFA is wasting time so Israeli athletes, who are IDF, can play in the Olympics.
1) Football grounds were used as detention centres and concentration camps
2) 9/10 of Gaza's stadiums destroyed
3) 1 stadium remains intact, now used to shelter thousands of people
4) They are being used as mass graves
@FIFAcom
is this what you call developing the game?
A must-watch on how
@FIFAcom
's decision to delay Israeli sanctions is only punishing Palestinians- from one of the sports journalists at the heart of the issue
@AbubakerAbedW
.
@CelticFC
This is despite the club being fined numerous times for fans waving Palestinian flags. In August, amidst their government's campaign of genocide, Maccabi Haifa football club funs held up this sign. They weren't fined by
@UEFA
. Stand up to them
@CelticFC
!
Say his name today
@FIFAcom
. Along with the 305+ others from the Palestinian football community, including its Olympic football coach, Hani al-Masdar, who did not live to see the outcome of your repeatedly delayed vote.
I can think of other people I'd rather have lead a vote on Israeli sanctions, but here we are. What will he do? Does
@FIFAcom
value some lives more than others or will this be the moment they
#RedCardIsrael
for gross violations of internaitonal law and FIFA Statutes?
What a PR nightmare
@nyjets
, and another one for the museum archives- sports hall of shame. Robert Saleh has more integrity than you'll ever have for this show of support.
⚡️BREAKING: Just two days after coach Robert Saleh wore Lebanon’s flag on his sleeve, he has been dismissed as the head coach of the New York Jets.
I wonder why…
Israel Premier Tech riders will be looking back in anger at this one for quite a while...or is that the look of regret? Still time to pull out of
@TourofBritain
and stop pedalling genocide!
@FIFAcom
Let's not pretend to welcome referees in with open arms when we send them away in body bags, FIFA. Hani Mesmeh was one of yours. Where is his post?
Arriving late but still want to show your solidarity? No problem! We'll be at the start/finish line in the main square until 3pm. Let's make sure our message is heard loud and clear✊️
@AbubakerAbedW
@BBCWorld
Honestly, we'd rather listen to an on-the-ground sports journalist who is an expert in colonial oppression, than journalists at
@BBCWorld
who are tools of the colonial empire. Keep writing! We are reading.
"Israel does not allow international journalists from media organisations, including the BBC, independent access to Gaza, making it hard to verify the facts on the ground."
@BBCWorld
put this here at the end, belying all of our work as journalists and showing its real face of
A dictator losing his grip? As Bach announces his 2025 retirement from
@olympics
some say he couldn't run a bath. Others say he ran a pretty big bloodbath these past 2 weeks.
@FIFAcom
Will you have finished counting illegal Israeli settlement clubs by then in time to deliver a verdict or will you need more time?
#askingforafriend
Infantino will be the undoing of
@FIFAcom
who are being swamped by messages on all social media formats asking it to
#RedCardIsrael
. In the social media age there is no place for him to hide! How long can this go on?
#FIFA
's Council is meeting in the coming days to decide on Israeli sanctions. Please tell
@FIFAcom
Infantino must
#RedCardIsrael
to dent its legitimacy + isolate it internationally in solidarity with Palestinians.
FIFA can help end this genocide NOW if it wants to.
Is it time yet
@IanMurrayMP
? Or must we wait for genocide, apartheid etc etc that is happening under your government to be confined to the history books?
@adorasroses
thanks for promoting our campaign!
@FIFAcom
has (as usual) delayed its decision to try and buy more thinking time so we are keeping this open until 31st August! Let's see how much pressure we can pile on them from now until then to
#RedCardIsrael
✊
@FIFAcom
@Olympics
@Paralympics
the targeted killing of Palestinian athletes by Israel and the deliberate destruction of its sporting facilities is genocide. Sport is the only place where Palestine is internationally recognised. Protect Palestinians and
#RedCardIsrael
.
@fifa
BREAKING NEWS:
@FIFAcom
is expected to meet to decide on this within THE NEXT 24HRS. Let's keep pushing! FIFA needs to show leadership on this! It can't keep allowing its employees and civilians to be killed by Israel without consequence!
#RedCardIsrael
You can't sportswash a genocide, but what if we knew sport was being targeted by the
#IOF
to ethnically cleanse Palestinians? Would athletes stand up for
#Palestine
in the only place it's internationally recognised: world sport? Or continue to play Israeli athletes at
@FIFAcom
?
@AbubakerAbedW
Please tell him he is very welcome, to keep his dreams alive and we'll see him in the Bernabéu soon 🫶. The Madridistas are thinking of him and send their love and prayers to him and his family.
Thank you for bringing Mohammed's story to our attention!
Talked to Mohammed yesterday on the phone while he was afraid of Israeli bombardment.
He really didn't believe that message to be real. The happiness in his voice was unparalleled. He told me:" The best thing ever in my life."
Thank you,
@ScotSport4Pal
@GaryLineker
could you accidentally RT something about FIFA needing to
#RedCardIsrael
for using football as a tool for colonial expansion and a way to commit war crimes?
The IOC has become a bastion of authoritarianism under of its president Thomas Bach—exactly what the French have rejected at the ballot box, write
@EdgeofSports
and
@JulesBoykoff
.
@HSV
@DFL_Official
How can you have a background pic that says "Nazis out" when you simultaneously defend the Zionists who besiege and starve millions of Palestinian civilians, keep them in cages and in concentration camps and are known to have carved Stars of Davids on their backs?
@jon_dutton72
what were you thinking? Did this go differently in your heads
@BritishCycling
? Stop pedalling genocide with your nightmarish and morally bankrupt business strategies
@hangolem
@_Mzza_
@Olympic
Pretty sure they got thrown out the Asian federations some time ago for human rights abuses in the region, among other offences
@AbubakerAbedW
Football could help end the regime by rallying together to BDS Israeli companies and by asking
@FIFAcom
to
#RedCardIsrael
. Instead FAs and clubs are turning away from the fans who die alone with their players' names on their backs.
@lola_ackerman
Thank you Lola!
@FIFAcom
Council decided to delay for 47 more days so that Israel can compete in the
@Olympics
. Sickening! All of your letters will still be counted on 31st August though- in fact, there will be more of them!
@_Mzza_
Get this guy on a rebuilt version of the IOC and kick out
@thomasbach76
for being irrelevant, authoritarian and out of touch with what the people want
Remember Israel would be at
#Euro2024
if they hadn't been knocked out in the playoffs. Can we get this to 1 million signatures before
@FIFAcom
meets to decide on Israeli sanctions in July?
#RedCardIsrael
@MarwaHosny91
@fifa
@FIFAcom
people are connecting the dots...by refusing to expel Israel from your organisation, you are complicit in genocide and apartheid
@cineswans
Thanks for promoting our campaign!
@FIFAcom
has decided to delay the inevitable but its back is really against the wall. We now have until the 31st of August to tell world football it is time to
#RedCardIsrael
to isolate Israel internationally and help Palestinian liberation 🍉
Bosses at
@BritishCycling
woke up and chose genocide this morning so
@scottishpsc
and
@ggecc
will be in Kelso Square til 3pm.
@jon_dutton72
shame on your for lining your pockets with blood money- where is your leadership? Where are your morals?