{"id":56,"date":"2017-09-21T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s398810575.websitehome.co.uk\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-11-01T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:28:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"mhl\"><strong>Apartheid Racism and the ethnic cleansing and genocide it causes is the worst manifestation of racism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"mhl\"><strong>Football Against Apartheid opposes Apartheid Racism:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<ul>\n<li>as\u00a0practiced\u00a0by Israel today and for 66 years against the Palestinian people<\/li>\n<li>as\u00a0practiced by\u00a0Apartheid South Africa which was expelled from African football Confederation in 1958 for reason of Apartheid Racism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\"><strong>FACT: Apartheid Israel was previously expelled by the Asian Football Association in 1974 for reason of Apartheid Racism, but was later accepted into UEFA in 1994 despite being geographically distant from Europe.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<p><strong>Apartheid as practised by Israel means:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Players arrested, tortured and jailed without charge for several years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/#q=mahmoud+sarsak\">(International Mahmoud Sarsak best known case)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 Players attacked shot, maimed and disabled\u00a0 <a title=\"After Latest Incident, Israel\u2019s Future in FIFA Is Uncertain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/178642\/after-latest-incident-israels-future-fifa-uncertain#\">( Best known case\u00a0 Jawhar Nasser Jawhar, Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya, 17 )<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 Football Stadium has been deliberately bombed and destroyed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/after-destroying-paralympic-hq-and-stadium-gaza-israel-must-not-host-uefa\">\u00a0 (most recently on 26 November 2012) <\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 Football and other sporting equipment supplied by FIFA seized by Israel\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc\">(Details is The General\u2019s Son by Miko Peled<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\"><strong>The Israeli military Occupation of Palestine by Israel and division prevents Palestinian football officials, players and fans from\u00a0<\/strong><strong>travelling between the two major parts of Palestine which means Palestinians are:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Unable to play international matches \u201cAt Home\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 Unable to organise national league or cup competitions<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 Unable to travel to watch or support their national team at \u201chome\u201d\u00a0 or \u201cAway\u201d matches<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Football Against Apartheid believes that football fans through out the world must unite to bring apartheid racism to an end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>he governing bodies of football rightly proclaim that racism is a scourge on our sport and rightly tackle incidents of racial taunts by players and fans,\u00a0 but to date:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Football Association (FA) has taken no action to end apartheid racism, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zeitoun_incident\">its massacres<\/a> and ethnic cleansing (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine\">read Ilan Pappe<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), despite the president\u2019s pronouncements against racism has taken no action against apartheid despite<a href=\"https:\/\/jews4big.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/27\/protest-forces-platini-to-defend-uefa-under-21-finals-in-israel\/\"> protests at UEFAs offices, \u00a0 <\/a>on the contrary UEFA has rewarded Israeli Apartheid with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.org\/about-uefa\/executive-committee\/news\/newsid=1589123.html\">prestigious UEFA tournament finals\u00a0 <\/a><\/li>\n<li>FIFA , despite all its talk of fighting racism allowed Apartheid Israel to enter football via the Oceanic Football Confederation and UEFA after Asian Football Confederation expelled it for racism in 1974<\/li>\n<li>FIFA congress in Sao Paulo in Brazil on 10 June 2014 will hear a call from the Palestinian Football Association to expel Apartheid Israel and its genocidal ethnic cleansing from FIFA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\"><strong>How Football Against Apartheid (FAA)\u00a0 campaigns:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<ul>\n<li>FAA puts anti-apartheid football fans in touch with others to establish new groups at every Football Club, world wide. We organise short joint (home &amp; away fans against apartheid) recruitment campaigns for an hour before matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mhl\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mvm uiP fsm\"><strong>Why should Israel be expelled from FIFA:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"id_5333307fc28a76434180098\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">Football Against Apartheid fully supports 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:<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022\u00a0Israel has about 60 established or proposed racist laws (see Adalah), half of which have been proposed in the last three years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 It encourages widespread discrimination and practices ethnic clea<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">nsing and cultural genocide. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0Israel was admitted to UEFA in 1994 and has maintained its membership ever since, despite Israel\u2019s restrictions on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and penalising footballers. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 The restrictions have meant that often a full Palestinian team cannot be brought together.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 Palestinian footballers are jailed without trial, and denied access to their family even by phone for up to 3 years<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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 \u2013 3 on penalties.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 Palestinian football fans are racially abused and attacked and hospitalised at Israeli league matches, career ending bullets in legs whilst returning home from training.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 Children playing football in local park have been massacred<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 The National stadium has been bombed several times<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 In October 2010 Mr Platini acknowledged this problem and made threats to expel Israel from UEFA if restrictions were not removed. He has never followed up on these promises.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>OUR DEMANDS:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>An end to discrimination\u00a0in football<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We want institutional racism out of the FA, UEFA, and FIFA as well as the Met Police<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We fight against all forms of discrimination on grounds of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, disability, and we celebrate our differences.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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. Football wit and fun. But it\u2019s certainly NOT alright for Arsenal fans or any other fans to racially abuse Spurs fans, or indeed any anyone, any where.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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 &amp; Pappe have written excellent books on the subject).<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>Activism in football<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 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:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepetitionsite.com%2F643%2F930%2F477%2Fexpel-israeli-apartheid-from-fifa-world-and-uefa-european-football%2F&amp;h=kAQEsjNCe&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/643\/930\/477\/expel-israeli-apartheid-from-fifa-world-and-uefa-european-football\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We call on all football fans to ensure that fascists never again get a foothold in our sport<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Democracy in football<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We demand an end to billionaire\u2019s control of our game<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022\u00a0We 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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> \u2022 Genuine and transparent elections for every post in football. We want fans views to matter more.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We want genuine elections and votes for fans regarding admission of a new \u201cNation\u201d such as Gibraltar to UEFA.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>An end to the greed in football<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022\u00a0We want an end to working class fans being currently frozen out &amp; overcharged to watch football<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 We want 25% of all attendance to be safe, low cost standing room.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>HOW TO GET INVOLVED:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u2022\u00a0Support Football Against Apartheid<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u2022 (FAA) groups are now established at Premiership clubs: Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea &amp; Liverpool, with groups developing at Crystal Palace, and need your support. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u2022 Message<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Football-Against-Apartheid\/1378557452366799\"> Football Against Apartheid<\/a> on Facebook to consider how we may work together to establish a campaign at your club. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u2022\u00a0Or\u00a0<\/span>Email:\u00a0 join@footballagainstapartheid.org<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\u2022 Twitter:\u00a0 @FAApartheid<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apartheid Racism and the ethnic cleansing and genocide it causes is the worst manifestation of racism Football Against Apartheid opposes Apartheid Racism: as\u00a0practiced\u00a0by Israel today and for 66 years against the Palestinian people as\u00a0practiced by\u00a0Apartheid South Africa which was expelled from African football Confederation in 1958 for reason of Apartheid Racism FACT: Apartheid Israel was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"ru","enabled_languages":["gb","es","fr","pt","ru","no","ar"],"languages":{"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}