Iranian Football Federation announces the 8% ticket quota allocated to Iran has been revoked by the U.S., leaving the federation currently unable to distribute tickets to supporters.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.
Israel kills fishermen in boats, doctors in hospitals, aid workers in soup kitchens and refugees in tents—deliberately inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.
That’s genocide.
https://t.co/iRUm4iKerm
"Israeli minister confirms goal of large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza", Emma Graham-Harrison: Israel’s defense minister has said he is committed to Gaza's ethnic cleansing through large-scale migration of Palestinians, part of Israel’s plans. https://t.co/P9yTYRnS97
It is worth remembering that Israel's apartheid in occupied Palestinian territory is imposed not only with laws but also by force, often involving brutality. https://t.co/sOla0lbw9U
Systematic violence and human rights violations are not exceptions to Israel's apartheid regime and occupation, they are integral to it. Israel is using unbridled violence in all the territories under its control, as well as in Lebanon and Iran.
Since October 2023, this policy has escalated:
In Gaza: tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, millions forcibly displaced, entire neighborhoods and infrastructure systematically destroyed
In the West Bank: about 1,082 Palestinians killed, including 239 children and teenagers; 61 communities with at least 4,161 members forcibly displaced and another 15 partially so, with at least 454 members displaced
In Israeli prisons: thousands of Palestinians subjected to systemic torture, violence and humiliation, in inhumane conditions
Under Israel's apartheid regime, Palestinian lives are treated as expendable and millions across the Middle East are at risk.
American journalists once made up a fictitious "Palestinian PLO leader" in Lebanon out of thin air, called him "Abu Rashid", & turned him into "the most quoted PLO commander in the entire middle east", b/c they couldn't/didn't want to interview real PLO leaders
Philip Caputo revealed this 3 decades later
Imagine how many "Abu Rashids" are widely quoted in mainstream media today!
The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.
This World Cup is the worst.
The people of Lebanon can't wait another month for Congress to act. Every day that we do nothing, 11 more Lebanese children are killed or injured by the Israeli military in this U.S.-supported invasion. Congress must pass today's Lebanon War Powers Resolution.
Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.
Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.
Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.
Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.
Breaking: After Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s legal team appealed his arbitrary detention, Israeli authorities transferred him on 3 June 2026 from Naqab Prison to solitary confinement in Nafha as a punitive measure. The move comes amid harsh conditions and denial of medical treatment.
I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.
Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.