He was also fined last season over a personal message, which read \u201cStop The Genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n
The NFL policy states: \u201cThroughout the period on game day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience … players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the league office\u201d.<\/p>\n
The league can approve certain items, such as jersey patches, to celebrate anniversaries or memorable events, or to honour or commemorate individuals.<\/p>\n
But the NFL will not grant permission for any items on display \u201cwhich relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns\u201d, the rule states.<\/p>\n
Al-Shaair, 29, from Florida, is a practicing Muslim who has frequently spoken on the situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it\u2019s something that\u2019s trying to be almost silenced,\u201d Al-Shaair told the Houston Chronicle in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn either side, people losing their life is not right. In no way, shape or form am I validating anything that happened, but to consistently say that because of [October 7] innocent people [in Gaza] should now die, it\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dallas Mavericks basketball star Kyrie Irving swiftly spoke out in support of Al-Shaair, offering to personally pay the footballer\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take care of his fine,\u201d Irving posted on social media.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military last month admitted its troops fired on Rajab\u2019s family\u2019s car and said it had ordered a criminal investigation into the killing, which drew international outrage.<\/p>\n
Rajab\u2019s body was recovered from the bullet-riddled car in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military had previously denied its troops were present in the area. near the incident.<\/p>\n
\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was also fined last season over a personal message, which read \u201cStop The Genocide\u201d. The NFL policy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[297211,297210,1872,19631,2082,8223,6868,211366,293,38609,3375,685,14731,297214,130,13617,111,139,28181,69,1118,90,6507,21485,9617,297212,3048,128908,213,131,297213,49370,4767],"class_list":["post-603200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alshaair","tag-azeez","tag-face","tag-fined","tag-for","tag-forces","tag-girl","tag-hind","tag-his","tag-israeli","tag-killed","tag-last","tag-league","tag-markings","tag-more","tag-name","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nfl","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-overnight","tag-palestinian","tag-player","tag-rajab","tag-said","tag-spokesman","tag-sports","tag-than","tag-us11000","tag-wearing","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}