On 16 July 1976 millions of the black majority and ethnic groups of people in South Africa celebrated and applauded delegates at the FIFA congress in Montreal, Canada, for taking the decisive steps that would lead to the collapse of the apartheid system of oppression in South Africa.
\nFIFA Delegates voted 9 to 1 to expel South Africa from FIFA after 15 years of prevarications and suspensions \u2013 intended to extend the life of apar<\/p>\n
Why FIFA must EXPEL apartheid Israel at 2015 Congress \u2013 a letter to delegates
\nOn 16 July 1976 millions of the black majority and ethnic groups of people in South Africa celebrated and applauded delegates at the FIFA congress in Montreal, Canada, for taking the decisive steps that would lead to the collapse of the apartheid system of oppression in South Africa.
\nFIFA Delegates voted 9 to 1 to expel South Africa from FIFA after 15 years of prevarications and suspensions \u2013 intended to extend the life of apartheid for every minute possible. The chief proponent of suspension was the FIFA President and pro-apartheid Englishman Sir Stanley Rous. Each delay \/ suspension enabled the apartheid regime to exploit for profit, brutalise and even kill thousands of the most oppressed people on earth, including the massacre of nearly 200 protesting children.
\nHowever Nelson Mandela and Arch Bishop Tutu and Reverend Allan Boesak have told the world many times that the crimes of Israeli Apartheid are far worse than South African apartheid ever was, and are getting worse by the day.
\nOn 16 July 2014 exactly 38 Years to the very day after FIFA expelled apartheid South Africa the world of football gasped in shock as Apartheid Israeli war bombs killed four completely innocent children playing football on the beach in Gaza. Picture headline flashed around every corner of the world including the football world. Shockingly UEFA the governing body of European football remained silent.
\nA Palestinian man carries the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a bomb fired by an Israeli war plane, on a beach in Gaza City July 16, 2014. Photo by Reuters<\/p>\n
During the course of 51 days apartheid Israel launched the most ferocious attack on the civilian population of GAZA and massacred 538 completely innocent children, whilst they slept in their beds, along with 1500 mostly civilian adults. They destroyed 80,000 homes making over 150,000 Palestinian civilians homeless. Apartheid South Africa never even came close to this level of depravity.
\nFootball, footballers and civilians were not systematically attacked in apartheid South Africa with the brutality that Apartheid Israel has exerted against football players, officials supporters, as well as the civilian population.
\nNo doubt you are wondering how the apartheid state of Israel which was already expelled from the Confederation of Asian Football In 1974 for its apartheid racism \u2013 the worst manifestation of racism, could be admitted to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) with such an appalling record on racism, whether or not UEFA accepts that Israel is an apartheid state.
\nUEFA comprises of 53 National Football Associations apart from Israel, but not one of them is on record of even expressing concern at the massacre of 538 innocent sleeping children in July 2014 in Gaza.
\nThe failure of UEFA to take any action whatever regarding the massacre in Gaza which Included football players and Palestine\u2019s most famous player Ahed Zaqout and commentator, encouraged the Israeli Football Association to intensify the Israeli apartheid programme. It decided to illegally segregate children\u2019s football to separate Jewish from non-Jewish teams.
\nOnly 2 months before this 2015 FIFA Congress on 29 March 2015 the only response from FIFA to the massacre in Gaza in July 2014 from the FIFA Task Force Mechanism set up to examine Palestinian complaints of arrests of footballers , imprisonment without trial, torture, shooting, maiming and killing as expected achieved nothing, as it \u201ccame to a dead end\u201d . FIFA and its president Sepp Blatter continue to make promises about tackling racism and veiled threats are made but FIFA refuse to take action against Apartheid \u2013 the worst manifestation of racism.
\nOnly one week ago on 19 May 2015 the Israel Football Association halved Beitar Jerusalem’s punishment for racist misconduct, from the deduction of two points to the deduction of a single point which at that time made a difference between 3rd and 4th place in the League
\nNot only did UEFA fail to follow the example of the Asian Football Confederation in 1974 and expel apartheid Israel but according to Israeli press the UEFA President Michel Platini urged former Israel Football Association chief Avi Luzon, a member of the UEFA executive committee, to enlist Western diplomatic help to avert possible FIFA sanctions against apartheid Israel\u2019s Football Association when The Palestine Football Association president Jabril Rajoub submitted his resolution to FIFA, which reluctantly calls for the Suspension of Apartheid Israel from FIFA, explaining that \u201csuspension is already a concession because they deserve exclusion\u201d
\nJust as Apartheid South Africa mounted a vigorous world-wide diplomatic campaign to prevent EXPULSION from FIFA so too has apartheid Israel started its campaign to defeat the Palestinian plan as advised by UEFA president Platini, and has already targeted an initial list of 100 national football associations.
\nThe FIFA decision to expel apartheid South Africa inspired millions throughout the world to call on their own governments to take action against apartheid and a year later the UN convened its first World Conference for Action against Apartheid, held in Lagos in August 1977
\nIn November 1977 The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 418 declared arms trade with South Africa a “threat to peace” under Article 39 and made the arms embargo mandatory.
\nIn 1978, a mere 2 years after the EXPULSION of Apartheid South Africa from FIFA in 1976 The Free Nelson Mandela movement erupted onto the world. Schools, Hospitals and streets were names after Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid prisoners and fallen heroes of the struggle.
\nBy EXPELLING apartheid South Africa from world Football FIFA had kick started a world-wide movement that lead to the end of the apartheid structures and government in South Africa. The FIFA delegates had initiated a campaign that was now knocking at the doors of governments all over the world to impose sanctions against apartheid South Africa.
\nIn 1985 only 9 years after expulsion from FIFA, the notorious supporter of apartheid racism Margaret Thatcher was fighting a losing battle when she was opposing a motion calling for sanctions against SA at a meeting in the Bahamas of what remained of the British Empire to dismantle apartheid.
\nIn 1985 Nelson Mandela started discussing terms of surrender (Long Walk to Freedom;Chapter 89) with his racist oppressors. It was football, by expelling apartheid from FIFA that kick-started the beginning of the end of Apartheid in South Africa in all its manifestations. Football must now kick start the beginning of the end of Israeli Apartheid and free not just Palestinian football but the whole nation of Palestinian people.
\nBut Israel Apartheid racism is not confined to Palestinians whether Muslim or Christian, Jewish people too who are not white are discriminated against, and Ethiopia Jews have also been targeted for rough apartheid treatment.
\nDespite all Palestine won the Asian Football Confederation Challenge Cup final, and in so doing, qualifying for the Asia Cup 2015 in Australia, Asia\u2019s biggest football tournament.
\nJewish people all over the world including freedom fighters in South Africa not only condemn the Zionist Ethnic apartheid racism and ethnic cleansing, but campaign actively and whole heartedly against it. From the very founding of the racist state intellectuals such as Albert Einstein characterised the newly created Israeli state as fascist.
\nFormer Zionists who supported the founding of the Jewish state following the horrors leading up to and during WW2 and the Holocaust and who served in the Israeli army, now campaign vigorously against Zionism, its apartheid state and ethnic cleansing.
\nOne such former Zionist is Professor Ilan Pappe, and he would like you to read his best seller book \u201cThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\u201d or watch videos of his speeches to university students and football supporters now available with a click of a button on the internet, and then consider that your vote and the votes of other right thinking people at FIFA Congress could end Israeli apartheid, just as FIFA delegates heralded the end of apartheid South Africa in Montreal on 16 July 1976.
\nMiko Peled was a special operations soldier in the Israeli Army and dedicated to Zionism, but became the foremost campaigner in the world against the barbarism that is Zionism. He would ask that you read his best-selling book \u201cThe General\u2019s Son\u201d, and or watch his videos on YouTube, and he will leave you in no doubt that apartheid Israel must be peacefully expelled from FIFA.
\nBoth of the aforementioned former Zionists, and millions of people across the world believe that Zionism is an apartheid racist ideology, and many Jews claim it is anti-Sematic and must be opposed and dismantled as apartheid South Africa was, and that all of the former land of Palestine become a single democratic state, similar to South Africa where the new constitution declares that all people be treated equally. Is this call by former Zionists not a reasonable one? Jews United Against Zionism claims \u201cZionism and its State have no share and no part in the true ISRAEL\u201d
\nThe Jewish group True Torah Jews claim that \u201cZionists are not the saviors [sic] of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide\u201d
\nJews United Against Zionism as well individuals such Nazi concentration camp survivor Hajo Meyer compares Zionism with Nazism, because of attacks against an innocent civilians, who Zionism condemns as guilty of belonging to a different race or religion, & as such an attack on all of humanity.
\nFootball proved to be the catalyst that heralded the end of apartheid in South Africa, but FIFA delegates were not only responding to the discrimination against football and the divisions imposed on it, but against the whole apartheid apparatus, that divided the people.
\nAlthough Football was divided along racial lines in SA there was not a systematic and targeted attack on Football, its players including children, officials, commentators, fans and even the national stadium, as have been and continues to be carried out daily against the Palestinian people.
\nOur only weapon football, is a peaceful one, a beautiful one, and comes completely free, and nobody anywhere will be injured whilst EXPELLING apartheid Israel from FIFA. We believe that the proponents of the beautiful game like yourself will summon the spirit of Montreal \u201976 and peacefully expel apartheid Israel from FIFA.
\nThe purpose of this short letter is to alert you to the possibility that the Palestinian Football Association may submit a resolution to the FIFA congress calling for the expulsion of the Israeli Football Association from FIFA, and we ask that you support that resolution when it is tabled.
\nWe will be happy to meet with you or your representatives to brief you further, and can be contacted at
\nFootballAgainstApartheid@gmail.com @FAApartheid Mobile: 0044 7969 542 629 Website; https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.wordpress.com 21 May 2015<\/p>\n
theid for every minute possible. The chief proponent of suspension was the FIFA President and pro-apartheid Englishman Sir Stanley Rous. Each delay \/ suspension enabled the apartheid regime to exploit for profit, brutalise and even kill thousands of the most oppressed people on earth, including the massacre of nearly 200 protesting children.
\nHowever Nelson Mandela and Arch Bishop Tutu and Reverend Allan Boesak have told the world many times that the crimes of Israeli Apartheid are far worse than South African apartheid ever was, and are getting worse by the day.
\nOn 16 July 2014 exactly 38 Years to the very day after FIFA expelled apartheid South Africa the world of football gasped in shock as Apartheid Israeli war bombs killed four completely innocent children playing football on the beach in Gaza. Picture headline flashed around every corner of the world including the football world. Shockingly UEFA the governing body of European football remained silent.
\nA Palestinian man carries the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a bomb fired by an Israeli war plane, on a beach in Gaza City July 16, 2014. Photo by Reuters<\/p>\n
During the course of 51 days apartheid Israel launched the most ferocious attack on the civilian population of GAZA and massacred 538 completely innocent children, whilst they slept in their beds, along with 1500 mostly civilian adults. They destroyed 80,000 homes making over 150,000 Palestinian civilians homeless. Apartheid South Africa never even came close to this level of depravity.
\nFootball, footballers and civilians were not systematically attacked in apartheid South Africa with the brutality that Apartheid Israel has exerted against football players, officials supporters, as well as the civilian population.
\nNo doubt you are wondering how the apartheid state of Israel which was already expelled from the Confederation of Asian Football In 1974 for its apartheid racism \u2013 the worst manifestation of racism, could be admitted to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) with such an appalling record on racism, whether or not UEFA accepts that Israel is an apartheid state.
\nUEFA comprises of 53 National Football Associations apart from Israel, but not one of them is on record of even expressing concern at the massacre of 538 innocent sleeping children in July 2014 in Gaza.
\nThe failure of UEFA to take any action whatever regarding the massacre in Gaza which Included football players and Palestine\u2019s most famous player Ahed Zaqout and commentator, encouraged the Israeli Football Association to intensify the Israeli apartheid programme. It decided to illegally segregate children\u2019s football to separate Jewish from non-Jewish teams.
\nOnly 2 months before this 2015 FIFA Congress on 29 March 2015 the only response from FIFA to the massacre in Gaza in July 2014 from the FIFA Task Force Mechanism set up to examine Palestinian complaints of arrests of footballers , imprisonment without trial, torture, shooting, maiming and killing as expected achieved nothing, as it \u201ccame to a dead end\u201d . FIFA and its president Sepp Blatter continue to make promises about tackling racism and veiled threats are made but FIFA refuse to take action against Apartheid \u2013 the worst manifestation of racism.
\nOnly one week ago on 19 May 2015 the Israel Football Association halved Beitar Jerusalem’s punishment for racist misconduct, from the deduction of two points to the deduction of a single point which at that time made a difference between 3rd and 4th place in the League
\nNot only did UEFA fail to follow the example of the Asian Football Confederation in 1974 and expel apartheid Israel but according to Israeli press the UEFA President Michel Platini urged former Israel Football Association chief Avi Luzon, a member of the UEFA executive committee, to enlist Western diplomatic help to avert possible FIFA sanctions against apartheid Israel\u2019s Football Association when The Palestine Football Association president Jabril Rajoub submitted his resolution to FIFA, which reluctantly calls for the Suspension of Apartheid Israel from FIFA, explaining that \u201csuspension is already a concession because they deserve exclusion\u201d
\nJust as Apartheid South Africa mounted a vigorous world-wide diplomatic campaign to prevent EXPULSION from FIFA so too has apartheid Israel started its campaign to defeat the Palestinian plan as advised by UEFA president Platini, and has already targeted an initial list of 100 national football associations.
\nThe FIFA decision to expel apartheid South Africa inspired millions throughout the world to call on their own governments to take action against apartheid and a year later the UN convened its first World Conference for Action against Apartheid, held in Lagos in August 1977
\nIn November 1977 The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 418 declared arms trade with South Africa a “threat to peace” under Article 39 and made the arms embargo mandatory.
\nIn 1978, a mere 2 years after the EXPULSION of Apartheid South Africa from FIFA in 1976 The Free Nelson Mandela movement erupted onto the world. Schools, Hospitals and streets were names after Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid prisoners and fallen heroes of the struggle.
\nBy EXPELLING apartheid South Africa from world Football FIFA had kick started a world-wide movement that lead to the end of the apartheid structures and government in South Africa. The FIFA delegates had initiated a campaign that was now knocking at the doors of governments all over the world to impose sanctions against apartheid South Africa.
\nIn 1985 only 9 years after expulsion from FIFA, the notorious supporter of apartheid racism Margaret Thatcher was fighting a losing battle when she was opposing a motion calling for sanctions against SA at a meeting in the Bahamas of what remained of the British Empire to dismantle apartheid.
\nIn 1985 Nelson Mandela started discussing terms of surrender (Long Walk to Freedom;Chapter 89) with his racist oppressors. It was football, by expelling apartheid from FIFA that kick-started the beginning of the end of Apartheid in South Africa in all its manifestations. Football must now kick start the beginning of the end of Israeli Apartheid and free not just Palestinian football but the whole nation of Palestinian people.
\nBut Israel Apartheid racism is not confined to Palestinians whether Muslim or Christian, Jewish people too who are not white are discriminated against, and Ethiopia Jews have also been targeted for rough apartheid treatment.
\nDespite all Palestine won the Asian Football Confederation Challenge Cup final, and in so doing, qualifying for the Asia Cup 2015 in Australia, Asia\u2019s biggest football tournament.
\nJewish people all over the world including freedom fighters in South Africa not only condemn the Zionist Ethnic apartheid racism and ethnic cleansing, but campaign actively and whole heartedly against it. From the very founding of the racist state intellectuals such as Albert Einstein characterised the newly created Israeli state as fascist.
\nFormer Zionists who supported the founding of the Jewish state following the horrors leading up to and during WW2 and the Holocaust and who served in the Israeli army, now campaign vigorously against Zionism, its apartheid state and ethnic cleansing.
\nOne such former Zionist is Professor Ilan Pappe, and he would like you to read his best seller book \u201cThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\u201d or watch videos of his speeches to university students and football supporters now available with a click of a button on the internet, and then consider that your vote and the votes of other right thinking people at FIFA Congress could end Israeli apartheid, just as FIFA delegates heralded the end of apartheid South Africa in Montreal on 16 July 1976.
\nMiko Peled was a special operations soldier in the Israeli Army and dedicated to Zionism, but became the foremost campaigner in the world against the barbarism that is Zionism. He would ask that you read his best-selling book \u201cThe General\u2019s Son\u201d, and or watch his videos on YouTube, and he will leave you in no doubt that apartheid Israel must be peacefully expelled from FIFA.
\nBoth of the aforementioned former Zionists, and millions of people across the world believe that Zionism is an apartheid racist ideology, and many Jews claim it is anti-Sematic and must be opposed and dismantled as apartheid South Africa was, and that all of the former land of Palestine become a single democratic state, similar to South Africa where the new constitution declares that all people be treated equally. Is this call by former Zionists not a reasonable one? Jews United Against Zionism claims \u201cZionism and its State have no share and no part in the true ISRAEL\u201d
\nThe Jewish group True Torah Jews claim that \u201cZionists are not the saviors [sic] of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide\u201d
\nJews United Against Zionism as well individuals such Nazi concentration camp survivor Hajo Meyer compares Zionism with Nazism, because of attacks against an innocent civilians, who Zionism condemns as guilty of belonging to a different race or religion, & as such an attack on all of humanity.
\nFootball proved to be the catalyst that heralded the end of apartheid in South Africa, but FIFA delegates were not only responding to the discrimination against football and the divisions imposed on it, but against the whole apartheid apparatus, that divided the people.
\nAlthough Football was divided along racial lines in SA there was not a systematic and targeted attack on Football, its players including children, officials, commentators, fans and even the national stadium, as have been and continues to be carried out daily against the Palestinian people.
\nOur only weapon football, is a peaceful one, a beautiful one, and comes completely free, and nobody anywhere will be injured whilst EXPELLING apartheid Israel from FIFA. We believe that the proponents of the beautiful game like yourself will summon the spirit of Montreal \u201976 and peacefully expel apartheid Israel from FIFA.
\nThe purpose of this short letter is to alert you to the possibility that the Palestinian Football Association may submit a resolution to the FIFA congress calling for the expulsion of the Israeli Football Association from FIFA, and we ask that you support that resolution when it is tabled.
\nWe will be happy to meet with you or your representatives to brief you further, and can be contacted at
\nFootballAgainstApartheid@gmail.com @FAApartheid Mobile: 0044 7969 542 629 Website; https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.wordpress.com 21 May 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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