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[Nasser Mashni @iamthenas]

Or to starve a captive civilian population, or to create the largest cohort of child amputations and orphans in history, or to commit ecocide, scholasticide and genocide! Judaism is not Zionism!

[Jennifer Gai Lambie @JenLambie @JenGLambie]

Chris Sidoti, a man at the coalface, regarding every report on multiple Israeli massacres & mass graves plus individual acts of sadistic cruelty upon Palestinians.

A hero for our times & an Aussie to boot. During Albanese's gov. silence/complicity, Mr Sidoti lessens the shame.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 2028 the Olympics is set to be held in the USA, fascist, racist Donald Trump will still be in charge and like the FIFA World Cup, fans, journalists, referees and athletes will be banned or treated as criminals because of the colour of their skin.

It must be moved.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

South Africa, Germany and other recent #WorldCup hosts were forced by FIFA to promise all accredited officials, players and staff would be guaranteed visas and minimal immigration interference for the tournament duration.

Why is the United States exempt from that @FIFAcom?

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry.

Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances".

Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.

[Micky Jnr @MickyJnr__]

𝐆𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐔𝐊:

“We are now in the process of defining the bid requirements,” Infantino said in 2017.

“In the world, there are many countries that have bans, travel bans, visa requirements and so on and so forth.”

“It’s obvious when it comes to FIFA competitions, that any team including the supporters and officials of that team who qualify for a World Cup, need to have access to the country, 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩.”

“The requirements will be clear. And then each country can make up their decision, whether they want to bid or not, based on the requirements.”

#WorldCupwithMicky
#FIFAWC
#WorldCup2026

[K @Kieranbcfc2]

Why do Yanks think it’s only the English upset?
- 80+ games not sold out
- Forced a Middle Eastern team to sleep outside the nation they’re based in
- Banned Africa’s top ref
- Banned multiple African teams fans
- Banned a Caribbean teams fans
But yeah it’s only the English.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Iranian Football Federation announces the 8% ticket quota allocated to Iran has been revoked by the U.S., leaving the federation currently unable to distribute tickets to supporters.

A case study in political interference, discrimination and FIFA looking the other way.

[Mark Dunlop @AnGarraiDubh]

@NimaTavRood An absolute disgrace and a craven response from FIFA regarding Artan. No referee in the 96 year history of the WC has been banned by the host on the basis of nationality. The US should be a sporting pariah like South Africa was.

[A🇦🇺 @AdzThfc]

Not only is this heartbreaking for Omar, it also sets the precedent for young African/Somali kids who have dreams of making it in this sport. Your dreams are barred by a piece of paper. Just an actual disgrace tbh.

[nico 🏁 @bombdiggy__]

When it was Qatar 2022 BBC, Sky News and ITV News were doing segments for 40 days and 40 nights about human rights abuse and campaigning for alcohol to be allowed during the World Cup. But USA is refusing to allow a referee and Iran’s team in and they’ve gone quiet. Cowards

[Walter J. Black @captain_stavros]

This seems logical.

Why are Australians who fight with the @IDF not investigated when they return @AlboMP ? Humanitarian agencies and media have reported extensive war crimes and civilian murders.

If Ben Roberts Smith can be charged, so can returning IDF war criminals.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

You don't blow up universities unless you're trying to destroy a people, their culture and their future.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

So the United States could just refuse to let anyone else into the country and then claim victory by default? Is that what FIFA is saying?

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Lewis may be particularly insufferable because of how smug he is, but on display here is a cavalier ignorance, bigotry, and tolerance for a genocidal apartheid regime that is shared by *the entire media & political class that has enabled & whitewashed the mass atrocities in Gaza*

[samldn @ms_samldn]

@LBC @lewis_goodall The large scale, industrialised mass murder of an entire people? Yeah, Id say it was pretty comparable!

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Benjamin Netanyahu invoked Amalek, which commands the absolute destruction of an entire group of people, specifically ordering the killing of “both man and woman, infant and suckling.”

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, said, “The only thing that needs to enter Gaza is hundreds of tons of explosives from the Air Force, not an ounce of humanitarian aid.” He also said, “We cannot have women and children approaching the border. Anyone who approaches and poses a threat to security must receive a bullet.” He later said that the West Bank could be turned into Gaza.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Minister of Finance, said, “Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” and that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” He also said that “no one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be justified and moral.”

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Don't vote away our future generations future

Don't vote for evil

Don't vote for the lesser of two evils

That's still evil

When you next walk into the polling booth

Vote for the next generations future

Vote for humanity

Vote for the environment

Vote against genocide.

[Rahul SA 🇿🇦 @Rahul_AJ_1990]

As South Africa, we hosted the World Cup in 2010.

Upon the insistence of FIFA & in accordance with the Host Country & Host City Agreements, we had to waiver laws, by-laws, policies, regulations, processes & the like, to ensure that South Africa became the ultimate hosts of the world during the period.

We passed special legislation specifically to meet FIFA's hosting requirements for the 2010 World Cup. The most important were the '2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act, 2006 (Act 11 of 2006)' and the 'Second 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act, 2006 (Act 12 of 2006)'. These laws were enacted to give legal effect to the guarantees we had made to FIFA during the bidding process.

The special laws effected temporary special provisions & exceptions in certain areas, including: Special visa, work permit, & accreditation arrangements for players, officials, media & visitors.

These requirements were not exclusive to South Africa, as Korea & Japan (2002), Germany (2006), Brazil (2014), Russia (2018), Qatar (2022), had to enact the same.