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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Disgusting: Turkish soccer fans chant 'Allahu Akhbar' to drown out moment of silence for French terror victims

The West really needs to think long and hard about whether Turkey is an ally. My own view is that it is a Trojan horse at best and an enemy at worst.

Let's go to the videotape.



Disgraceful.

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Friday, August 07, 2015

'Palestinians' delay soccer final, try to blame Israel

The 'Palestinian' soccer final, which was to have taken place on Sunday in Hebron, has been postponed after a number of players from Gaza were not allowed to cross the border.
The Shejaia club from the Gaza Strip must pass through an Israeli border crossing to reach the West Bank city of Hebron, where Sunday's game was scheduled to be played, and to do so needs approval from Israel.

"It became clear seven people, including four players were not on the list and therefore, the entire mission can't leave Gaza without them," said Ala Shammaly of the Shejaia media office.

Israel said the four players needed to undergo special questioning, which was to have taken place on Thursday, but the Palestinians did not show.

It offered to let the rest of the team cross on Friday, the start of the weekend in Israel, with the four to meet them on Sunday when it would again be possible to conduct the questioning.

The Palestinian federation said the game was delayed until further notice.
In a series of tweets, COGAT, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, tells a far different story.
In case you need to be reminded why 'Palestinian' soccer players might need to pass 'preliminary inquiries' before being allowed to move through Israel and into the 'West Bank,' here are some reminders.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

'Palestinians' withdraw bid to have Israel suspended from FIFA

 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Will Israel be suspended from FIFA?

I'm going to guess that many of my US readers never heard of FIFA, the international soccer federation several of whose officials were indicted on bribery charges in the US earlier this week. Here in Israel, we are all too familiar with them.

'Palestinian' terrorist and soccer federation chairman Jibril Rajoub is seeking to have Israel expelled from FIFA, which would bar the world's only Jewish state from international soccer competitions like the World Cup. As you can see from the tweet above, the Israeli government believes it's on the verge of a 'compromise' (can't wait to hear what that would entail) that would avert the expulsion.

But not everyone believes that a compromise is in the offing.
If it comes to a vote, it probably goes without saying that Israel will not get a fair hearing.
Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, arrested in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday on bribery charges as part of a massive bust of top soccer officials, previously blamed “Zionism” for a bribery scandal which saw him forced from the world soccer body in 2011.
Warner surrendered to authorities late Wednesday in his native Trinidad and Tobago after his name appeared on a list of nine current or former FIFA officials and five business executives who “abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks,” according to US Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Warner resigned from FIFA in 2011 after the organization opened an ethics investigation into the vice president for receiving cash “gifts” from former Asian Football Confederation chief Mohammed Bin Hammam, ahead of the organization’s elections for president.
After FIFA handed Qatar’s Bin Hammam a lifetime ban from the soccer governing body for his role in the affair, Warner lashed out at the soccer body for what he said were various shortcomings, and vowed to bring down FIFA head Sepp Blatter.
“I will talk about the racism that is within FIFA. I will talk about the levels of religious discrimination which I sought to correct. I will talk about the Zionism, which probably is the most important reason why this acrid attack on Bin Hammam and me was mounted,” Warner wrote at the time in a 1,400 word letter to the Trinidad Guardian.
 And if you followed the links above, you already know that Blatter isn't exactly fair to Israel either.

Meanwhile, FIFA and the media continue to ignore the real story to which they ought to be paying attention: The 'Palestinian Authority's use of sports to promote terrorism rather than peace.

And the saga continues:


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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Islamic State to host 2026 World Cup

After Qatar (2022), what did you expect? The Islamic State terror group will be hosting the 2026 World Cup.
The bid was decided at a star-studded ceremony in Zurich, after what observers termed a “ruthlessly well-organised, take-no-prisoners style campaign”. FIFA President Sepp Blatter has defended the selection, noting that ISIS government policy, while ‘not perfect’, meets FIFA’s required ethical standards.
“At FIFA we believe that football is a truly global game,” he said. “That’s why we’ve chosen ISIS, an up-and-coming nation in the Middle East, to host the game.”
Alleged flaws in the human rights record of ISIS have made the choice highly controversial. One spot of contention has been the safety of Western football fans, who will, in the words of one ISIS spokesman, be ‘politely but firmly’ taken hostage and then killed regardless of religion. Blatter has suggested that these fans should stay at home.
It is also unclear whether air strikes will still be in operation against some of the venues. And Islamic State have yet to field an international team in football. “Their extremely radical interpretation of Islam doesn’t look kindly on playing football against non-Muslims,” explained one Sharia law expert. “They do have a strong local militant league with a growing youth squad, so they could be ones to watch in the future. Plus they’ve got lots of British-born talent going out there now to play.”
Can't wait to see the riots. Heh.

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

'Israeli Arab' soccer team pays tribute to traitor Azmi Bishara

Many of you might recall former Balad MK Azmi Bishara who fled the country and resigned from the Knesset after it was discovered that he helped Hezbullah spot rockets during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. On Saturday, the soccer team in the 'Israeli Arab' town of Bnei Sakhnin - which is part of Israel's national league and plays games against teams from all over the country - paid tribute to Bishara, prompting calls to suspend the team from the league.
At the beginning of the Bnei Sakhnin vs. Hapoel Tel Aviv game, the team held a ceremony thanking a wealthy man from Qatar for contributing $2 million to the team.

Balad party representatives accepted the award, mentioning Bishara’s name.

Bishara founded Balad and was an MK in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Knessets.

He fled Israel in 2007 while under investigation for passing information to Hezbollah during the previous year’s Second Lebanon War. He currently resides in Doha, where he is the director of a think tank and is reportedly close to Qatar’s royal family, a major sponsor of Hamas.

Fans in the stands Saturday night waved banners reading “Jerusalem is ours,” with an illustration of the Temple Mount wrapped in a keffiyeh, and “The police are whores.”

Earlier this week, there were violent clashes between Muslims and police on Temple Mount.
I'm wondering what HaPoel Tel Aviv did during the 'ceremony.' In any event, Israel's 'Football Association' is claiming they were tricked.
The Football Association said Bnei Sakhnin asked only to give certificates of honor to the team’s sponsors and did not mention Bishara, and the association will put the team’s management on disciplinary trial.

FIFA and UEFA rules do not allow soccer teams to mix politics and soccer. 
Hmmm.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

Hey Lionel Messi: Do you stand for Hamas?

In June, I posted the picture above, which although a photo shop, has garnered 34,397 hits as of this writing - one of the most popular posts ever on this blog.

It turns out, however, that Messi, who has many fans in this country, is far less sympathetic to Israel than he is to the 'Palestinians.' As a result of the murder of a four-year old fan of Messi's on Friday, Daniel Tragerman HY"D (May God Avenge his blood), Israelis are trying to get Messi's attention like never before.

Last photos of Daniel show him sporting Messi's number 10 jersey, in Argentinian national colors.
Messi wrote two weeks ago that as a father and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, he is “terribly saddened by the images coming from the conflict between Israel and Palestine, where violence has already claimed so many young lives and to injure countless children.” The post featured a photo of an injured Palestinian child.
The international star plays for FC Barcelona, a soccer team funded by the Qatari government, which also serves as Hamas’ chief financier.
“Hey Leo Messi, take a look at that boy, Daniel Tregerman, wearing the national jersey of the best player in the world,” Liran Cohen, an Israeli citizen, wrote in a Facebook post that tagged Messi.
“As you can see, you were Daniel’s hero. He was killed today, by a mortar which was fired by Hamas, the terror organization that your team’s #1 sponsors is [sic] sponsoring,” Cohen wrote. “Is this what you stand for? FC Barcelona—is this what you stand for? I guess money can buy everything.”
The post went viral on Facebook and also on Twitter, but has yet to prompt a response from Messi.
 Let's make this one go viral too.

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Argentinean soccer star Lionel Messi wears kidnapped Israeli teens at world cup

I don't think this is a photoshop (although some of the commenters - in French - seem to think that it is).

Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi, who plays for Spain, wore this shirt at the World Cup tournament in Brazil. Or did he?

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Why Israel doesn't let 'Palestinian' soccer players travel

FIFA - the international soccer federation - is once again pressuring Israel to loosen travel restrictions on 'Palestinian' soccer players.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and delegates at the FIFA Congress called on the Israeli government on Wednesday to fully commit to FIFA's plans to ease restrictions on movement for Palestinian footballers.
"I call on the Israeli government to facilitate this movement and I go so far as to say its co-operation is crucial," Blatter told delegates who roundly applauded him. 
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After Blatter spoke, Jibril Rajoub, the president of the Palestine FA said they would not be calling for any sanctions against Israel as he had implied a month ago, but that the suffering of Palestine football had to end.
"I call on those who are causing the suffering to stop and those that are suffering not to lose hope as they are part of the FIFA family," he told delegates from all 209 of FIFA's members including Israel.
After Rajoub's speech, Blatter congratulated the Israeli delegation for not responding negatively to Rajoub's pleas saying: "Israeli football, you are not abandoned and I congratulate today for keeping silent in the spirit of sportsmanship fair play."
Yes, yes, sports uber alles, just like in Munich 42 years ago.

Whatever FIFA's plans are, I would bet that they have zero chance of adoption after this incident.
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Wednesday announced that it had provided the IDF’s legal division with evidence to indict a Palestinian soccer player for meetings with a Hamas terrorist in Qatar, which he covered up as part of his team’s soccer tour.
The statement said that Samah Fares Muhamed Marava, 22, and Kalkilya resident, left Israel with his team on their soccer tour on April 15.
The Shin Bet said that while in Qatar, Marava met with Talal Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman Sarim, part of Hamas’ military wing, who was previously sentenced to life in prison in Israel, but released and deported as part of the Schalit prisoner exchange.
The statement said that since his release, Sarim has reconnected with Hamas and is involved with its military operations in the field.
During his interrogation, Marava said that before he left for Qatar, Muad Yusef Hasan Sarim, a senior Hamas operative in Kalkilya, approached him about meeting with Talal Sarim during his trip, the Shin Bet said.
During Marava’s meeting with Talal Sarim, said the statement, Marava received money, a cellphone and written messages that Talal Sarim asked him to bring to Hamas operatives in Kalkilya. This was later confirmed by Muad Sarim who was arrested on May 21.
The Shin Bet accused Marava of “cynically exploiting” his status as a soccer player to leave the country and make contacts with foreign Hamas agents and arrested him on April 28, upon his return to Israel.
Great sportsmanship, huh? Don't bet on those travel restrictions being lifted anytime soon.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Visa and FIFA sponsoring Egyptian blood libel

The Eretz Yisrael blog quotes a translation from MEMRI of a new blood libel published in Egypt (Hat Tip: Jack W).
In another stage of the Passover celebrations, [the Jews] combined the preparation of matzas and the offering up of sacrifices with their enmity towards non-Jews, especially Christians, and mixed the blood of one of their victims into the matza [dough. This was done] especially on Passover, Purim and circumcision rituals. They also used blood in acts of sorcery and witchcraft…

…The draining of the victims’ blood is done in [several ways. One method is] by means of a barrel lined with needles. This is a barrel the size of the victim’s body, with sharp needles that stick into all his limbs when he is placed in it, so that his blood slowly trickles down from every part of his body. This entails excruciating torment, which gives pleasure to the Jews who become drunk with joy at the sight of the blood dripping from the victim’s [body] to the bottom of the barrel and into a container placed there to collect it. [Another method] is to slaughter the victim like a sheep and collecting his blood in a vessel, or else slashing the victim’s veins in numerous places so that the blood flows from the wounds into the vessels. Then the blood is handed to a rabbi who prepares a matza laced with human blood in order to please the Jewish god, Jehovah, who thirsts for blood.
The Jews can rejoice in their holidays only if they eat matza laced with the blood of non-Jews.

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…The Jewish crimes which came to light throughout history and which were investigated and tried are a drop in the ocean compared to the Jewish crimes that no one knows about. The thousands of children and others who vanish around the world are probably victims of Jewish rituals. Their blood surely lies in Jewish stomachs along with the holiday matzas.

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As part of the efforts to deny [the Jewish crimes], Jewish Americans wrote stories about vampires in the 1970s, in order to disassociate themselves from the accusation of sucking human blood and deceive [the mechanisms of] justice. During that period they spent millions on Dracula films, in order to deceive world public opinion. They claimed that those who slaughter children and adults and suck their blood are lunatics and that all this has nothing to do with them and their religious rituals. On February 14, 1964, the [Egyptian] magazine Al-Musawwar published a story about vampires in Colombia after many [Colombian] children had been slaughtered to shed their blood. Neither the magazine nor the investigators in Colombia dreamed that the vampires might be Jews, rather than [people who] sell blood to hospitals.
Nasty stuff.... But what's truly shocking about this is what the Eretz Yisrael blog discovered about its sponsorship.
We know from past experience that such naked antisemitism in Arab media cannot be solved by merely publicizing it. Most Arabs are not even aware that there is anything offensive about describing Jews as murderous bloodsuckers.

However, a major advertiser for Al Kibar is Visa, with this ad popping up on most articles and shown on the main page:
The ad is the one at the top of this post.

Given FIFA's past history, we can't be too surprised to see them involved in this. But Visa?

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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

FIFA threatens to expel Israel at summer's end

FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, is reportedly threatening to expel Israel over its treatment of the 'poor Palestinians.'
Tensions between the two sides recently reached a peak when the Palestinian FA announced it would call for Israel's expulsion from FIFA this summer's FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo unless tangible measures are taken to ease travel restrictions in the occupied territories.

Last week, the Israeli FA attended the UEFA Congress in Kazakhstan and kept a low public profile throughout the proceedings. But in a brief interview with INSIDEworldfootball straight after the congress, Israeli Football Association CEO Rotem Kemer said there was a danger of too many people playing politics.

"We don't think this is right," he said. "It has never been the policy of FIFA and UEFA to mix politics and sport. We are making our best efforts in order to help the Palestinian association. We are trying to make things easier for them."

The Israeli security forces have accused the Palestinians of using football to hide the movement of terrorists and equipment within the region. The Palestinians have denied this and point to the inability to get footballers to training and matches which they say is a deliberate act of oppression.

FIFA have set up a mediation Task Force and Palestine football's leading figurehead Jibril Rajoub has already met with his Israeli counterpart Avi Luzon and FIFA President Sepp Blatter to try and resolve the long-term issue of access to and from Palestinian territories.

Blatter, who is due back in the region next month, wants Israel and Palestine to sign a formal co-operation agreement at or around the FIFA Congress in June but Rajoub has implied this is some way off while travel permit restrictions continue to be imposed by Israel on everyone from players to consultants.

Kemer, however, implied the debate has been far too one-sided.

"I don't think we will be expelled from FIFA because we are making good progress with the Palestinians," he said. "I would say we are on the right track."
There's an example of a 'Palestinian' soccer player (and he's far from the only one) who is involved in terrorism here

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Israel headed to the 2014 World Cup?



Senators Mark Kirk (R-Il) and Dan Coates (R-In) sent a letter to FIFA requesting that Russia be barred from the World Cup in Brazil as punishment for its takeover of Crimea.

As the third place finisher in Group F qualification, Israel would take Russia's place.

More here

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

French soccer star gets 5-game suspension for Nazi salute

French soccer star Nickolas Anelka has received a 5-game suspension for doing the Quinelle reverse Nazi salute after scoring a goal in a game in December. This is from the first link.
West Bromwich Albion forward Nicolas Anelka has been banned for five matches and fined 80,000 pounds ($133,400) for making an alleged anti-Semitic gesture in a match in December, the Football Association said on Thursday.
The Frenchman, who made a "quenelle" salute after scoring in a 3-3 draw against West Ham United on Dec. 28, has also been ordered to complete a compulsory education course.
Here's hoping he falls flat on his face the next time he plays. 

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Stadiums of hate

How much anti-Semitism is there in eastern Europe? Here's a BBC special from two years ago (2012) about what goes on at 'football' (soccer) games in the Ukraine and Poland. It's not pretty.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: The Mad Jewess).


BBC Panorama - Stadiums of Hate - Euro 2012 by WWExChamp

Not that the UK is any better. I have a non-Jewish friend in London, who was a colleague from my New York days. He told me that he won't attend soccer matches anywhere in the UK. It's too violent in the stands.

Keep in mind also that FIFA - the international soccer governing body and parent of UEFA (the European body) - supports Hamas.


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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Anelka to be disciplined by British 'Football' Association over Nazi salute

French soccer player Nicolas Anelka is to be disciplined by the British 'Football' Association for giving the quenelle reverse Nazi salute (pictured above) in a game last month. This is from the first link.
The Football Association (FA) announced Monday that it would be charging Nicolas Anelka over making the 'quenelle' gesture, which is deemed "abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper," according to a statement. 
The Association, which is the governing authority for soccer in England, added it was "an aggravated breach in that it included a reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief." 
The ban could be as little as five games, or be extended to different or more severe forms of punishment by the FA, according to BBC. Anelka has until January 23 to respond formally to the charges.
The FA was practically forced to act - they've been silent for nearly a month.
The FA has remained largely silent until now, despite the media circus which began immediately after the gesture was made in December. On December 30, the FA claimed that Anelka would still be eligible for selection. 
BBC reports that following news of the charge, anti-discrimination group Kick It Out issued a statement expressing condemning the FA's lengthy silence.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, a leading Jewish group in the UK, focused instead on the positive: that the FA had finally broken its silence. 
"We support the FA in treating this incident seriously and we look to them to follow through with equal determination," it stated. "The board believes that any behavior on or off the pitch with racist connotations should be addressed with zero tolerance and should be kicked out by the football authorities."
The news surfaces just one day after Zoopla, a property website, ended its sponsorship of Anelka's team West Bromwich Albion over the incident. 
"Zoopla has been reviewing its position over the past few weeks in light of the actions of striker Nicolas Anelka during the match against West Ham over the Christmas period and has decided to focus its attention on other marketing activities after this season," the company said.
 It would be great if this Jew-hating creep were banned for life, but that's probably hoping for too much.

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Monday, January 06, 2014

Dutch soccer team slammed for leaving Jewish player out of UAE trip

The Dutch soccer team Vitesse is facing criticism at home and abroad for leaving home a Jewish player who was not granted a visa to play two matches in the United Arab Emirates.
Two Dutch politicians and several media criticized the team Vitesse from Arnhem over the weekend for agreeing to play in Abu Dhabi despite the refusal Saturday to let Dan Mori into the country for matches against two German teams.
Geert Wilders, leader of the rightist, pro-Israel Party for Freedom, on Sunday called the team cowardly on his Twitter account. “Vitesse shouldn’t have gone to the United Arab Emirates to protest the refusal to let Mori in. They are now accepting the emirates’ Jew-hate. Cowardly.”
Pieter Omtzigt, a lawmaker for the CDA party, told Dutch media on Monday that Vitesse should behave like Dutch lawmakers, who refuse to visit places which try to dictate the make-up of parliamentary delegations.
Ester Bal, communications director for Vitesse, said the team “stays away from politics and religion. We have always done this. We are a soccer club.”
Management said in a statement that the decision to go to Abu Dhabi was made because “the team had obligations and wanted to prepare to the best of our abilities for future matches.”
Recall that in 2009, Israeli tennis player Shahar Pe'er was barred from playing in neighboring Dubai. There was such an uproar over her exclusion that Pe'er was allowed into the 2010 version of the same tournament and reached the semi-finals. Something tells me that Mori won't be allowed to play in the Emirates next year either because no one stood up for him.

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Oh my: Look who else gives Nazi salute

French soccer player Nicolas Anelka posted the picture above to defend himself from charges of giving the Quenelle modified Nazi salute on a British soccer pitch on Saturday. Recognize anyone (Hat Tip: Sunlight)?
After making the “quenelle” salute, regarded as a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic gesture, to celebrate scoring a goal in the English Premier League on Saturday, Anelka posted a picture of Obama, rapper Jay Z, and his wife singer Beyonce making a similar gesture.
But of course, Obama couldn't have done THAT, could he?
Obama and the two star performers were in fact posing for a picture doing the well-known “brush off the shoulders” hip-hop move at a NYC fundraiser, which has no connection to the quenelle.
No, of course, they were just brushing off dandruff.

And besides, Anelka has a history of this stuff.
Israel’s Sport 2 TV Channel, which broadcast the game and whose commentator condemned Anelka for the signal, said the soccer player had previously been photographed with Dieudonné making the salute.
Hmmm.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

French soccer player gives Nazi salute

French soccer player Nicolas Anelka, who plays for the British West Bromwich Albion team, may be facing a lengthy ban (not lengthy enough) after giving a Nazi salute as a goal scoring celebration in a British Soccer League game on Saturday.
The 34-year-old striker thrust his straightened right arm downwards while tapping his bicep with the other hand after scoring a goal in a game in Britain between his West Bromwich Albion team and West Ham United.
The gesture - an imitation of a salute frequently used by a French comedian friend of Anelka's who has been convicted several times for anti-Semitic public comments - was immediately and widely condemned.
France's sports minister, Valerie Fourneyron, called it a "shocking, sickening provocation" and said there is "no place for anti-Semitism and inciting hatred on the football pitch".
British media reported that the Football Association was investigating the incident, while the European Jewish Congress demanded English Premier League officials ban Anelka.
"This salute is merely a lesser known Nazi salute and we expect the same kind of punishment to be handed down by the authorities as if Anelka had made the infamous outstretched arm salute," said European Jewish Congress president Moshe Kantor in a statement.
Online, a storm brewed, with some Twitter users calling Anelka, a former member of France's national team, "loathsome" and "racist".
Anelka himself took to Twitter to try to defuse the row, saying in messages in French and in English: "This gesture was just a special dedication to my comedian friend Dieudonne."
West Bromwich Albion's coach, Keith Downing, echoed that in a post-match press conference in which he said the footballer was "totally surprised" by the backlash.
Anelka's salute, Downing said, was "dedicated to a French comedian he knows very, very well... He is totally unaware of what the problems were or the speculation that has been thrown around."
Either the coach is a fool or he is a damned liar - either way he should be suspended as well. French courts have fined Dieudonne seven times for anti-Semitism - including this gesture - and he may yet be banned from performing in France.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls released a statement Saturday in which he said he would seek to ban Dieudonné's performances altogether.
"Despite a conviction for public defamation, hate speech and racial discrimination, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala no longer seems to recognize any limits," the statement, read, according to France 24.
"Consequently, the interior minister has decided to thoroughly examine all legal options that would allow a ban on Dieudonné’s public gatherings, which no longer belong to the artistic domain, but rather amount to a public safety risk."
It's long past time. 

Much more here.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Human reflex?

The Israeli national soccer team played the Ukrainian national soccer team in the Ukraine on Wednesday.

A bunch of Ukranian kids were brought onto the pitch for the national anthems.

It's cold in the Ukraine, even in August, and as they came onto the field it started to pour.

Look what the Israeli team did (bottom) and what the Ukranian team did (top).

The Israeli team referred to their actions as 'human reflex.' Really?

Full story here.

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Friday, August 16, 2013

FIFA threatens to expel Israel

FIFA, the world soccer federation, is threatening to expel Israel over its refusal to allow 12 Arab National Federation teams into the 'Palestinian territories' to play in the West Asian Football Federation under-17 championship tournament that was due to begin on Thursday. But Israel didn't refuse to allow the entire teams in - only certain suspicious individuals.
During President Blatter’s recent “diplomatic mission” to Ramallah on Sunday, The Jewish Chronicle reported that the FIFA president relayed the threats of PFA’s leader Jibril Rajub that he would call on delegates at FIFA’s upcoming congress to expel Israel if the matter is not resolved.
Rajoub told reporters, "We ask [FIFA] for a red card, because the yellow card has been raised now for a long time." He added, "We are clinging to the red card to take away the Israeli occupation's legitimacy and we will not accept any compromise."
The threats came when Israel denied representatives of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), including 12 Arab national football associations, permits to enter the PA territories to play in the WAFF Under-17's Championship, that was due to begin Thursday.
“Three managers of the Jordanian football union, two UAE representatives and 13 managers and players from Iraq were refused entry,” Rajoub said.
Rajoub reportedly told AFP that WAFF called upon FIFA to "put pressure on Israel to issue the necessary permits" for the tournament.
Israel is not the only country the FIFA has threatened in the past. The country of Cameroon was suspended last week over government interference in the country’s football federation. “If Israel is not careful the only team it will be able to play is Cameroon,” Blatter told Israel Football Association Chairman Avi Luzon.
Blatter continued to say that this only a warning for Israel, “I hope we won’t need to suspend Israel. The Euro Under-21 tournament in Israel was a huge success and it’s a shame that everything would be ruined. We are not talking about a yellow card but a warning.” 
The sanction is ridiculous, but then so was the sanction against Cameroon (which was lifted in July).
There had been confusion within Cameroon football before the ban with federation elections postponed on several occasions.

When the elections did go ahead, Iya Mohamed was re-elected president despite the fact he is being detained by the authorities in Cameroon.
He is being investigated after being accused of embezzling money at state-owned Cotton Development Company.
Soon after the election results were announced, Fecafoot's elections appeals committee declared them void.
In the aftermath, John Begheni Ndeh announced himself head of the federation and started work with the help of police, which was deemed as political interference by Fifa.
Every country has the right to control its borders - even in the face of a soccer federation.

The WAFF's under-21 tournament is scheduled for the 'Palestinian territories' in October so look forward to more of this.

The picture at the top is a reminder of how the soccer stadium in Gaza (paid for by FIFA twice) was being used nine months ago today.

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