Football Against Apartheid
• We support the call by Jibril Rajoub, chair of the Palestinian Football Association, to expel apartheid Israel from FIFA at the FIFA Congress in Brazil in June 2014, because;
o Israel has about 60 established or proposed racist laws (see Adalah), half of which have been proposed in the last three years. It encourages widespread discrimination and practices ethnic clea
nsing and cultural genocide. o Israel was admitted to UEFA in 1994 and has maintained its membership ever since, despite Israel’s restrictions on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and penalising footballers. The restrictions have meant that often a full Palestinian team cannot be brought together. Palestinian footballers are jailed without trial, and denied access to their family even by phone for up to 3 years
The Palestinian national team may have qualified for Olympic final had 8 players from GAZA been allowed to play in the decisive match, which was lost by 5 – 3 on penalties. Palestinian football fans are racially abused and attacked and hospitalised at Israeli league matches, career ending bullets in legs whilst returning home from training. Children playing football in local park have been massacred
The National stadium has been bombed several times
• In October 2010 Mr Platini acknowledged this problem and made threats to expel Israel from UEFA if restrictions were not removed
• We call for an end to billionaire’s control of our game We call for 5% of all share sales to be set aside for democratic control by the fans of every club where shares are exchanged / sold.
• Genuine and transparent elections for every post in football. We want fans views to matter more.
• We want institutional racism out of the FA, UEFA, and FIFA as well as in the Met Police
• We fight against all forms of discrimination on grounds of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, disability, and we celebrate our differences.
• We want procedures in place at the FA to redress the imbalance of white male dominated hierarchy, and football management to be a fair reflection of our multi-cultural society.
• Genuine elections and votes for fans regarding admission of a new “Nation” such as Gibraltar to UEFA.
• Working class fans currently frozen out & overcharged to watch football, especially Londoners: we want 25% of all attendance to be safe, low cost standing room.
• We agree Arsenal / Spurs or fans at fans call themselves anything they like. Yid, Yid army, is anti-anti-Semitic and rhymes and imitates Red, Red Army. But it’s certainly NOT alright for Arsenal fans or any other fans to racially abuse Spurs fans, or indeed any anyone, any where.
• We respect Jewish people and we champion Jewish anti-Zionist campaigners Miko Peled and Ilan Pappe and others who want sport and football in particular to be seen up front opposing racist Apartheid and racist Zionism. (Both Peled & Pappe have written excellent books on the subject).
• We plan joint demonstrations of unity of Football Against Apartheid with home and away Anti-Apartheid banners at as many League Matches as possible every week to inform fans, about apartheid. Local rivalries occur naturally in football, but anti-apartheid fans at all clubs unite to campaign against the evil of Apartheid racism and ethnic cleansing at all our clubs.
• As the World Cup approaches Football Against Apartheid will highlight the dangers of racism, fascism and apartheid and campaign world-wide to kick them out of football, and call on people around the world to sign the petition to EXPEL Israeli Apartheid from world football. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/643/930/477/expel-israeli-apartheid-from-fifa-world-and-uefa-european-football/
• We call on all football fans to ensure that fascists never again get a foothold in our sport
• Support Football Against Apartheid, (FAA) groups are now established at Premiership clubs: Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea & Liverpool, with groups developing at Crystal Palace, and need your support.
• Message Football Against Apartheid on Facebook to consider how we may work together to establish a campaign at your club. Or Email: [email protected]
