Image caption : Karam, a football athlete in Gaza who shared his
testimony with us about being shot by Israeli forces while waiting
for aid. His hand and foot were injured in the
attack. He may never play football again.
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for to finally hold Israel to
account on the world stage for its horrific crimes in Gaza.
After facing growing pressure to ban Israel from football
competitions, FIFA said it would seek legal advice and hold a rare
council meeting to decide what to do.
Now the special meeting is just weeks away – and it’s a race
against the clock to make sure FIFA does the right thing.
First, we’ll hire a lawyer to submit a legal brief on why FIFA must
stand against Israel’s atrocities. Then we’ll deliver the voices of
more than 360,000 Ekō members who signed a petition demanding
Israel be banned from competition with a powerful message
projected onto FIFA headquarters to show decision-makers that the
world is watching.
This is about more than sports – it’s about FINALLY starting to
hold Israel’s government accountable for the horrors in Gaza.
Can you chip in ?
It’s huge we’ve gotten this far. After years of refusing to take a stand
on Israel’s treatment of Palestineans, earlier this year FIFA finally
said they wanted independent legal advice on whether Israel
should be allowed to play.
After reviewing the legal submissions, its main decision-making
body, the FIFA Council, will finally decide what to do in July.
The Council is made up of 37 senior officials from around the world.
So we have a plan to make sure they feel the pressure by bringing
our message straight to their meeting, playing a powerful short
film that shows wounded and killed athletes in Gaza to make it
impossible to ignore the horrific crimes committed by Israel.
Israel cares about its reputation – and football. If we can show its
government that the world will not stand by and allow it to compete
as usual while it continues its relentless assault on Gaza, it could
finally change its calculus.
But we just have a matter of days to pull this off. For this to work,
we need the Ekō community to make as big of a splash as possible
right now. Can you chip in to make this happen ?
We know that pressure works. After Israel's 9-day siege on Gaza in
2021, 140,000 Ekō members called one of the world’s biggest sports
brands, PUMA, to drop its sponsorship of the Israel Football
Association. And thanks to our collective pressure, and the tireless
work of Palestinian solidarity activists over the years, PUMA
announced it ended its relationship with Israel’s football federation
last year, months after Israel’s current invasion.
Together, we can do it again.
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