Sport and politics do mix, as FIFA’s hypocrisy demonstrates

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Sport and politics do mix, as FIFA's hypocrisy demonstrates

Israel's war on Palestinian sport is as old as the settler-colonial state itself. Sport is a critical aspect of popular Palestinian culture, and since culture itself is a target for the decades-old Israeli attack on Palestinian life in all of its manifestations, sport and athletes have been targeted purposely as well. Despite this very obvious fact, world football's governing body, FIFA, in line with other international sports organisations, has done nothing to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinian sport. Now that FIFA, along with UEFA, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and others have joined the West's anti- measures following the latter's invasion of e on 24 February, Palestinians and their supporters are puzzled. Years of relentless advocacy to […]

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