FIFA to vote on banning Israel
The world soccer body FIFA will vote tomorrow on a resolution calling on banning Israel from international matches.
Flags with FIFA and Qatar 2022 World Cup logo waving in the wind. Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock.
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported the story publishing extracts from two letters to Football Australia, which holds voting rights, one written by the human rights and former soccer star Craig Foster supporting the ban.
In his letter, Foster cited the International Court of Justice, writing: “Any state found by the ICJ (International Court of Justice) to be plausibly committing genocide must immediately be suspended pending compliance with the provisional measures of the ICJ and with international and humanitarian law.″
The other letter written by The Executive Council of Australian Jewry which argued:”It has been reported falsely, that in its interim ruling on 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Israel had committed ‘plausible genocide’.
The ICJ did no such thing. This falsehood was recently debunked by Judge Joan Donoghue, the ICJ President at the time of the ruling. It was Judge Donoghue who delivered the Provisional Measures ruling in this case.
Judge Donoghue said as recently as 26 April 2024, in a BBC interview: “I’m correcting
what’s often said in the media – it [the ICJ] didn’t decide that the claim of
genocide was plausible.
Instead, she explained, the ICJ held that it was plausible that Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip, like all national, ethnic, racial or religious groups, have the right to
be protected from acts of genocide. The ICJ made it clear that it was not
prejudging whether such acts have in fact been committed,4 and will only
consider this question in the trial phase.”
The ECAJ concluded its letter by writing: “We call upon Football Australia to remain politically neutral and honour the sentiment of Australians by refusing to support any proposal to suspend the IFA from competition.
Sport plays an essential role in bringing people together and emphasising common humanity, and it ought not to be weaponised to stoke division.
The vote will take place in Bangkok tomorrow.
Disgusted with Craig Foster after all that the Lowy’s have done for Football Australia he dhould dtep down
a big percentage of Fifa is owned by qatar which supports hamas.. so no surprises there