{"id":164088,"date":"2025-09-23T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164088\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:30:07","slug":"suspend-israel-from-international-football-over-unfolding-genocide-un-experts-say-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164088\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspend Israel from international football over \u2018unfolding genocide,\u2019 UN experts say \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those associations must comply with their obligations not to provide \u201caid or assistance that would help maintain the situation created by Israel\u2019s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,\u201d the panel said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/aleksander-ceferin-uefa-gaza-palestina-israel-football-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to POLITICO earlier this month<\/a>, UEFA President Aleksander \u010ceferin said he didn\u2019t believe teams should face competition bans because of the actions of political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. experts said countries hosting international organizations, holding competitions, or taking part in sporting events with Israel cannot stay neutral when faced with genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are clear that the boycott must be addressed to the State of Israel and not to individual players \u2026 National teams representing States that commit massive human rights violations can and should be suspended, as has happened in the past,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has recently led calls for Israel to be banned from sporting and cultural events, following a sustained campaign against the presence of an Israeli team at a multi-stage cycling race in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was Russia expelled [from global sporting events] after the invasion of Ukraine, but Israel allowed to remain after the invasion of Gaza?\u201d S\u00e1nchez asked rhetorically during a meeting of Socialist Party lawmakers in the Spanish parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those associations must comply with their obligations not to provide \u201caid or assistance that would help maintain the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,49308,12337,6897,521,92689,6899,588,85],"class_list":["post-164088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-palestine","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}