Research by Kick It Out Israel “found 367 instances of racist chanting at Israeli Premier League matches in the 2024-25 season, a record total & an increase of 67% on the previous campaign.” @fairsq.bsky.social concluded that this “provides clear grounds for Uefa to act and suspend the Israel FA.”

Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders

Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders. FairSquare said the Kick It Out Israel report “provides clear grounds for Uefa to act and suspend the IFA”. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A thread on Barney Ronay's article criticising the decision Birmingham City Council and supported by West Midlands police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from traveling to Birmingham. It might be a depressing decision but it's not a terrible one. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Gulf repression came under the spotlight in the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, in expert discussions on the UAE’s rights crisis, and transnational repression across MENA. fairsq.org/gulf-repress...

fairsq.org/uefa-amsterd... In light of ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters attending Aston Villa match and Starmer's claim that this is anti-Semitic, see @fairsq.bsky.social letter to UEFA for a summary of key evidence

Imagine: the “Peace Cup,” a 96-team event held in the demilitarized zone between two historic enemies. North and South Korea? India and Pakistan? Israel and Palestine? For Infantino, anything is possible, so long as it is sponsored by Coca-Cola and Aramco www.sportspolitika.news/p/nfantino-p...

“Infantino has abandoned all pretense of the political neutrality that FIFA espouses & is statutorily committed to uphold, & has put FIFA firmly in the corner of Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu,” said @ncgeehan.bsky.social, director of the human rights advocacy group @fairsq.bsky.social

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit? Featuring comment by FairSquare’s @ncgeehan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

FairSquare has called FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s presence and comments at the Sharm el-Sheikh ‘Peace Summit’ yesterday “highly significant and deeply troubling”. Read the full quote and FairSquare's other work on Israel and Palestine using the link in our bio.

Highlight of @playthegame-org.bsky.social 2025 in Tampere was undoubtedly meeting Qatar 2022 whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais and then seeing him collect the Play The Game award alongside the remarkable Maggie Nichols www.playthegame.org/news/whistle...

"The volte-face increasingly looks like the last act of a piece of political theatre that allowed UEFA’s senior leadership to signal its support for the people of Gaza, while avoiding taking any action to help them." Read the analysis from @ncgeehan.bsky.social below ⬇️ fairsq.org/uefa-virtue-...

For anyone interested in understanding why FIFA has adopted a dynamic pricing model for the 2026 World Cup and why there is violent unrest in Morocco because of the 2030 World Cup, chapter 3 of @fairsq.bsky.social 's 2024 report Substitute is worth a read 👉 fairsq.org/substitute-r...

FIFA, Formula 1, ICC Under Fire For Aramco Sponsorships www.forbes.com/sites/vitasc...

ALQST has joined @fairsq.bsky.social and a coalition of human rights and climate NGOs, supported by a number of professional athletes, in challenging FIFA and other sports organisations to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Aramco. fairsq.org/aramco-lette...

Criticism of FIFA’s Aramco sponsorship amplifies ahead of 2026 World Cup www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/10/02/c...

The world's biggest sports' bodies taking money from the world's biggest corporate polluter in the middle of an existential climate crisis is - at very best - wildly reckless. 🧵 👇

Six of the world’s biggest sports organisations, including FIFA, the International Cricket Council & Formula 1, are being challenged to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Saudi Aramco. These partnerships may place them in breach of international human rights standards.

Multiple well-sourced articles, including a piece today in The Guardian, suggest UEFA is on the verge of suspending the Israel Football Association. A 🧵 on some of the background to this www.theguardian.com/football/202...

My latest @theguardian.com: "Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel." As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for soccer’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Excellent as always from @julesboykoff.bsky.social, laying out the case for the expulsion of the Israel Football Association from FIFA and UEFA. A moral imperative, anchored in governance rules and principles www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A Israeli academic asked his followers on X which sanction would really convince ordinary Israelis that they are isolated internationally. "Expulsion from football tournaments" was the most popular answer, followed by "ending visa-free travel to Europe"

column on why is the far right is obsessed with dubai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brady: "Under Gianni’s leadership football has reached farther and welcomed more people in. He’s championed inclusion and access, making sure the beautiful game belongs to everyone". Infantino: "Can we clap hands once more?"

A wonderful day for a remarkable man and his amazing family fairsq.org/alaa-abd-el-...

UN experts call for suspension of Israel from international football amid unfolding genocide in occupied Palestine www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

FairSquare's @lynchj.bsky.social: “Alaa and his family have been through a terrible ordeal lasting more than a decade – it’s beyond time for that to come to an end... We hope to see him released and reunited with his son in Brighton without delay.” fairsq.org/alaa-abd-el-...

🎥 Gaza’s Vanishing Stadiums The football story that is being ignored. Hundred’s of footballers killed, stadiums destroyed, illegal matches in occupied territories and almost complete silence from FIFA. Please watch and share our latest film here 👇 youtu.be/cfjDXFif8Yw?...

Bohemians have co-signed a letter to UEFA calling for the suspension of the Israel FA amid "violence, death and man-made famine" in Gaza. The League of Ireland club, with FairSquare and Irish Sport for Palestine, has accused the IFA of breaching UEFA and FIFA statutes. www.thesun.ie/sport/158518...

The IDF shot and killed "The Pele of Palestine", Sulaiman al Obaid, while he waited on line for food. No comment from FIFA. So we've made calls to FIFA. Whatever good that will do, at minimum aren't going to afford them the privilege of looking away. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.” A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The UK must overhaul its response to transnational repression. In evidence submitted to parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights, @fairsq.bsky.social, BIRD and ALQST urged the UK to act consistently, regardless of ties with perpetrating states like #SaudiArabia. alqst.org/en/post/uk-m...

Former Palestine national team player, Suleiman Al-Obaid killed in an Israeli strike while waiting for humanitarian aid. www.sportsjoe.ie/football/pal...

With unfair costs already being paid by migrant workers, we back the Employer Pays Principle as a means to reduce the risk of exploitation in the Seasonal Worker Scheme. Read our joint statement on the Employers Pay Principle Feasibility Study: labourexploitation.org/news/seasona...

What do the Saudi kingdom, FIFA, and a club tournament in the U.S. have to do with one another? Listen to @ncgeehan.bsky.social, co-director of @fairsq.bsky.social, connect the dots on the unlikely bedfellows and how the relationship is benefiting all three. bit.ly/4lAm1Da

1/9 The 2026 World Cup is set to be the most polluting ever, a new report from SGR, New Weather Institute, and @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social reveals… 🧪⚽🌍 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Groups express 'deep concern' about 2026 World Cup in US due to Trump's policies - USA Today eu.usatoday.com/story/sports...

@fairsq.bsky.social statement on the U.S. civil society letter sent yesterday to FIFA. A clear expression of discontent with the role FIFA is playing in the United States in advance of next year's men's World Cup. fairsq.org/civil-societ...

From @theathletic.bsky.social: A letter to FIFA, signed by more than 90 civil society groups, expressed "deep concern" about President Trump's immigration policies and their potential impact on the 2026 World Cup. https://trib.al/7pWcmV8

Worth reading this about ‘The Sheikh of Soccer’ by @tariqpanja.bsky.social & Declan Walsh in @nytimes.com. Sheikh Mansour, of course. 🎁article www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

“FIFA’s response [to IFA violations of its statutes]? One might say crickets, but crickets actually make noise. For more than a decade it has foot-dragged investigating good-faith claims against Israel.”

"FIFA Can No Longer Be Silent on Israel's Human Rights Atrocities." My latest for @commondreams.org. Shout out to @fairsq.bsky.social for their vital human-rights work. www.commondreams.org/opinion/fifa...

Will the FIFA's GACC pay attention to the opinion of the world's famous int'l law scholars ? Will they finally complete the assessment of a matter equivalent to pondering whether grass is green? Israeli clubs located in illegal settlements in the West Bank breach both int'l law and FIFA Statutes.

"If [Fifa's] Governance Committee ignores a letter of this nature from academics of this stature, it will only serve to confirm that it is not independent and that FIFA has no interest in good governance.” fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

“Member associations and their clubs may not play on the territory of another member association without the latter’s approval.” Pleased to sign this letter to FIFA coordinated by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of @fairsq.bsky.social fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

Bayern Munich fans at the Club World Cup held up a banner saying "world football is more poorly governed than before" and "smash FIFA". They are not going out on a limb here. A 🧵 on the experts and organisations that recently said the same thing...

FC Bayern fans in Cincinnati pointing out to anyone asking that it is the FIFA Club World Cup indeed.