moved to the 4,500-capacity TSC Arena in Ba\u010dka Topola in Serbia<\/a>, will be played behind closed doors.<\/p>\n Israel’s FA confirmed to the Irish Examiner that discussions are ongoing about the first meeting of the nations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn internal meeting will take place this week, during which a decision will be made on whether the match will be played behind closed doors or whether spectators will be allowed to attend,\u201d said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Shutting out fans would represent a change of policy by their federation but the threat of Irish fans instigating demonstrations against Israel’s genocide in Palestine and Lebanon may influence their position.<\/p>\n
They host Kosovo at the same venue four days later on October 1 but, like their third game against Austria on November 17, no restrictions on entry are anticipated.<\/p>\n
The #StopTheGame campaign group remains steadfast in their determination for Ireland to boycott the fixtures against Israel.<\/p>\n
They have arranged a press event for Thursday, where opponents such as ex-Ireland rugby and British and Irish Lions scrum-half John Robbie will outline the next steps in escalating their campaign.<\/p>\n
The group also pledge to provide new information \u2018including links between the FAI and Israel relevant to the current genocide in Gaza\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel have still to decide whether to allow away fans to attend their Uefa Nations League fixture against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-574107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}