UEFA has heard the request of a group of United Nations human rights (UN) and will meet next week to agree on the possible suspension of Israel of their competitions. Thus, to which sources of the highest soccer agency in Europe have moved that “A large majority of the members of the Executive Committee are in favor of the suspension” as they did with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
As collected The TimesUEFA has already maintained this week “important debates at the highest level” on Israel’s actions in Gaza and about how the organization should act in this regard. Last month, in addition, Several European football clubs asked UEFA if they could avoid facing Israeli teams. This Wednesday, the Israeli team MacCabi Tel Aviv faced the Paok in the European League in Salaónica, Greece, where the police had to deploy a large -scale security operation to the protests that happened in the city.
This week, a group of UN independent experts “as a national team of international football in response to address the ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory.” According to these United Nations rapporteurs, “sport must reject the perception that everything remains the same.” “National teams that represent states that commit massive human rights violations can and should be suspended, as has happened in the past”they remembered from the UN.
Although FIFA has not answered the United Nations claim, who has done so has been the United States government. A state department spokesman who The Trump administration will work “to completely stop any attempt to try to exclude the National Soccer Soccer Team of the World Cup”. It should also be noted that The next World Cup will be held next year, 2026, in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
At the moment, Israel participates in the European qualifiers to reach the next World Cup. On October 11 he will face Norway in Oslo. Since the Norwegian Federation of Norwegian football they have moved that they would have liked to avoid such confrontation. Not being able to refuse to participate if they do not want to be eliminated from the competition, Norway has decided that the benefits obtained from the party “will go to the emergency help work that doctors without borders perform on the land in Gaza and the surrounding areas.” “Neither the Norwegian Football Federation nor other organizations can remain indifferent to humanitarian suffering and disproportionate attacks that the civilian population of Gaza has suffered for so long”they have reported from the agency.
Israel’s participation in international sports competitions has been in question above all After the protests that happened throughout Spain for the participation of an Israeli team in the Cycling Tour. Although at first to the International Cycling Union charged against the Government of Spain, at this time the viability of the Israeli team is not safe at all. Its main sponsors.
