FIFA hypocrisy after Israel murder over 400 Palestinian footballers

The Board of Peace and FIFA have announced plans to build 55 football pitches, an academy, and a national stadium in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has murdered over 400 footballers, destroyed every football pitch in the country, and made millions of Palestinians homeless.

Yet now, a board of rich, old, and (all but one) white men is deciding Gaza’s fate. This is after supplying weapons and supporting Israel’s genocide for over two years. 

The hypocrisy is off the charts. 

🚨🇵🇸 WATCH: FIFA and the Board of Peace have announced they are building 55 football pitches, a FIFA academy and a national stadium in Gaza pic.twitter.com/G1cB5NVSe1

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The proposals include:

– 50 FIFA Arena Mini Pitches ($50,000 per pitch)
– ⁠5 Full Sized Pitches ($1 million per pitch)
– ⁠A FIFA Academy ($15 million)
– ⁠A National Stadium ($50 million)

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Since October 2023, Israel has murdered at least 437 Palestinian footballers — and that figure could actually be far higher.

At least 437 registered Palestinian footballers murdered by Israel since 7 October with half of them being children and FIFA continues to allow Israeli domestic and international teams to play in their competitions and tournaments https://t.co/ubzxvkKH0R

— Cllr Martin Abrams (@Martin_Abrams) February 26, 2026

Over half of these were children.

Built on child’s corpses.

— Antifa HR Director (@berniehoe2) February 26, 2026

Israel destroyed all 51 football clubs, along with 9 stadiums and the communities that came with both.

51 clubs and 9 stadiums destroyed in Gaza. Many of them date back to before 1948. At least ten football academies were erased.

FIFA’s plan is to build only one stadium and 50 mini-pitches as well as 1 academy.

This is colonialism but packaged as sports reconstruction. https://t.co/gDjx74LrU5

— Abubaker Abed (@AbubakerAbedW) February 27, 2026

Turning pitches into graveyards

At one point, Israel bombed a football pitch at a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon, whilst 13 children were playing on it.

Israel then claimed it struck a ‘Hamas training compound’.

Of course, FIFA has turned a blind eye for over two years as Israel has murdered innocent people.

FIFA quickly suspended Russia from international tournaments after it illegally invaded Ukraine. But of course, it did not take the same action when Israel launched its full-scale genocide on Palestine.

As the Canary previously reported:

FIFA has ignored restrictions on the movement of Palestinian players and the targeting of stadiums and sports facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the imposition of Israeli clubs in settlements at the expense of Palestinian federations.

Now, FIFA is using a Trump-esque AI video. Could they create something more fucked up if they tried?

an AI generated video of a fifa stadium erupting out of the leveled ruins of gazan neighborhoods is the most disturbing and dehumanizing thing i’ve seen on this godless app, no one involved in this will be seeing heaven i can make that guarantee

— ℑℭ𝓔𝔅𝔒𝔜 (@exsdys) February 27, 2026

Anyway, in what world is this Gaza:

This looks more like the UAE than Gaza.The men’s attire shown above is primarily associated with Gulf states. The racist AI video generator clearly cannot distinguish between different Arab populations — and FIFA apparently didn’t bother checking what its own use of AI produced before publishing it.

Orientalism at its finest.

FIFA enabling ethnic cleansing

As if it was not bad enough that FIFA has been allowing Israel to compete internationally. Now, it is an active participant in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

This is as disgusting as the Trump Gaza AI video…

FIFA is participating in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza directly with the Board of Peace.

BOYCOTT FIFA. BOYCOTT THE CRIMINALS. https://t.co/5J8ZvkjeL5

— YourFavoriteGuy (@guychristensen_) February 27, 2026

Israel has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians, and the West collectively ignored it. Now they’re going to jump on the graves of children to expand their capitalist empires as if Palestine has not suffered enough for the last 70 years.

I want to fucking cry, tens of thousands of innocent people slaughtered without a care in a world, just so that the capitalists can expand their empire further, all on top of the body of a nation that suffered for the last 70 years. You cant hate these people enough. https://t.co/LDOv34XQv9

— Radya🫜🇵🇸 (@radishart_) February 27, 2026

We can only presume that this is some sort of soft launch for a future tournament in Israel. Of course, the powers that be – who happen to be mainly friends-of-nonces- will have no intention of including Palestine in said tournament. That’s if there are even any footballers left to invite because Israel has murdered them all.

Fifa are testing the waters and soft launching a tournament in Israel https://t.co/pRrloFVMx9

— Лайк! 🔻 (@_Ventfull_) February 26, 2026

sportswashing a genocide by building football pitches on the bodies of dead Gazans? using AI garbage to depict fast-tracked construction around the rubble? truly, truly sick. they’re paying $70m to put the FIFA stamp on ethnic cleansing. may these depraved ghouls never know peace https://t.co/YoIfR65Ire

— amadí (@amadoit__) February 27, 2026

If the board of peace, Israel, or FIFA think that a few new stadiums will make the world collectively forget the brutality of the last two years, they have another thing coming.

And who’s to say Israel would not bomb new stadiums as soon as Palestinians set foot in them? The rest of the world watches on as Israel labels whatever the hell they like Hamas targets and gets away with cold-blooded murder.

Neither a sporting governing body nor a ‘board’ made up of rich old men should be allowed any part in building on the graves of children.

Feature image via VERTEX/YouTube