Join the protest at the Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv match to demand that genocidal Israel is excluded from international football.
Assemble at 6pm at Aston Pavillion, Trinity Road, B6 6JD
Allowing football clubs from a state committing genocide and implementing apartheid to compete in international competitions normalises its atrocities, and sends the signal that there are no consequences for them. It allows Israel to present itself as a normal country, obscuring the truth about its oppression of Palestinians.
Israeli football is deeply involved in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. The Israel Football Association, of which Maccabi Tel Aviv is a member, contains at least 6 clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Maccabi Tel Aviv has itself supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza by sending “care packages” to serving Israeli soldiers.