max mauro

Loves the Bicycle, Bad Brains, Maradona and life in general.

[max mauro @maxmauro10]

I was interviewed by BBC World Service on racism in football. I questioned FIFA and UEFA credibility in campaigning against racism and discrimination while keeping silent on Palestinian's rights (but acting swiftly for Ukraine).
https://t.co/tszoKyylSG

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Israeli historian @bartov_omer speaking on prime-time TV in Italy:

“[Israel is] a country that is unwilling to face the truth, and that brings us to the issue of genocide... When genocide occurs, the entire society of the country perpetrating it becomes complicit in that genocide.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves: in the case of Israel, where there is a conscript army made up of the sons and daughters of most Israeli citizens, what does it mean for a country to be involved in these activities? It means that everyone becomes part of this event: those who carry it out, those who deny it, and those who do nothing to stop it...

In the case of Israel, this is a country going through a profound phase of denial...

When people say that criticism of Israel, criticism of Zionism, or even the rejection of Zionism is antisemitism, frankly, that is nonsense. It concerns the rejection of a specific ideology that is no longer sustainable.”

(Via @fattoquotidiano) :::

[max mauro @maxmauro10]

Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation  https://t.co/2tpBQIBaAE

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

With Germanys failure to get elected to the United Nations Security Council, this brilliant address by Slovenia, Spain, and Belgiums action in Europe and the weakening of the US/Israeli military by their defeat in Iran, there is real hope that US/Israeli global terrorism may finally be addressed.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

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.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Taybeh: The West Bank's last fully Christian village is on the verge of erasure.

Yesterday, Israeli soldiers stormed the village and attempted to shut down a Catholic Marian festival honoring the Virgin Mary.

The local church had to contact church authorities immediately — escalating the matter until it reached Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Lex Pouliot, manager of Middle East projects for the Vulnerable People Project: "Our fear this morning was that radical settlers would disrupt preparations for the Marian Festival. Instead, it was far more disturbing to watch the Israeli military intervene."

Church leaders and residents are calling on the world to intervene before it's too late — they are under attack by the Israeli army and settlers. So far, no one seems to care, as the attacks on the village continue.

Israel appointed its first-ever Special Envoy to the Christian world this month. Has anyone heard from him about the attacks on Taybeh? https://t.co/tOCw1yfZE0

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Among the reasons most EU states and EU institutions are quiet about Israel's daily slaughter of civilians in the region, is that they do not care: Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian lives are disposable, their loss negligible.
And this is so wrong.
Immoral.
Illegal.
Irresponsible.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

A. lived in Germany since he was 2 months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobin
https://t.co/GE7cd5Albg

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

‘There was permission to kill 300 people as collateral damage.’

Israeli intelligence whistleblowers expose the ‘non-human’ targeting system in Gaza, where strikes are approved in minutes, as more than 70,000 have been killed in Gaza since October 7th.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

On Sept. 9, 1969, ~20 Palestinians from Gaza boarded a plane from Israel, believing they were bound for Brazil. They’d signed up through an Israeli travel agency for a work-abroad program promising higher wages than they could find in Gaza. But that’s not what awaited them. 🧵

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Journalists are allowed to enter israel to cover the Iranian bombing,

But not allowed into Gaza.

[Jamal Dajani جمال @JamalDajani]

FIFA banned Russia, why not Israel? @nkalamb

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Israel has decided to starve Gaza.

The situation is deteriorating rapidly, and yet it unfolds in near silence. The world is occupied with other urgencies. Gaza no longer interrupts the global conscience. It no longer qualifies as breaking news. And so it becomes easier to look away.

Yesterday, the Israeli army announced an extension of the closure of Gaza’s border crossings until March 13. No goods. No supplies. No aid. For at least thirteen more days. For now.

These phrases, bureaucratic and bloodless, conceal what they mean.
Even when the crossings are open, what enters is not generosity but calculation. The quantities are tightly controlled, measured according to daily caloric limits defined by the very authority that enforces the closure. Survival here has been reduced to arithmetic. Not dignity, not life as it is meant to be lived, but the minimum required to postpone death.

And now the crossings are sealed again.
It will take only days before organizations such as the World Food Programme are forced to suspend their operations for lack of supplies. Bakeries will close. Shelves will empty. Families who have already been living on the narrowest margin will find that even the margin has disappeared.

Gaza is being pushed toward hunger while the world directs its gaze elsewhere, and history has shown us what happens when suffering is permitted to proceed quietly. Starvation does not require spectacle. It does not need the noise of bombs. It advances in increments, in administrative language, in closed gates.

One gate. Then another.
Until hunger becomes policy, and policy becomes ordinary.

#WoundedGaza

[Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla @VarshaGandikota]

BREAKING 🚨 South Africa and Colombia, as co-chairs of The Hague Group have called for an emergency meeting on accountability and the enforcement of international law in The Hague on 4 March 2026.

Over 30 states are confirmed to attend.

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

An indictment has been filed at @IntlCrimCourt holding gianni_infantino and Aleksander Čeferin, the heads of @FIFAcom and @UEFA , responsible for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A landmark case, it also holds out the possibility that corporate leaders in general, not just sports leaders, could be held responsible for their actions.
Football is, as the authors of this article point out, without question one of the most popular sports on the planet. FIFA and UEFA are global regulatory monopolies, presiding over a huge, lucrative industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bans have financial consequences and corporate leaders have every incentive for avoiding them i.e. for standing in the way of international law being enforced,
They must not be allowed to get away with it. https://t.co/WSYFiXrMik

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir personally handing out demolition and eviction orders to Palestinians.

"I don't care. Jews are above the law. You have 2 hours to leave."

Yet the EU supports this and in Ireland we're told "play football".

https://t.co/P2KsbDwuNF

[max mauro @maxmauro10]

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations https://t.co/MgdypEUx8d via @AJEnglish

[Henry A. Giroux @HenryGiroux]

On the politics of educational genocide
https://t.co/2EalbZlhXW

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Gaza has been reduced by the Israeli military to a huge refugee camp with unlivable conditions.

[Des Freedman @lazebnic]

Really significant result which is being reported on the BBC website as a local issue to do with Bristol. In fact this has huge implications for the Palestine solidarity movement and protest more generally