Show UEFA and FIFA a red card at the ICC
JVL Introduction
An indictment has been filed at the International Criminal Court holding Gianni Infantino and Aleksander Čeferin, the heads of FIFA and UEFA, responsible for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A landmark case, it also holds out the possibility that corporate leaders in general, not just sports leaders, could be held responsible for their actions.
Football is, as the authors of this article point out, without question one of the most popular sports on the planet. FIFA and UEFA are global regulatory monopolies, presiding over a huge, lucrative industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bans have financial consequences and corporate leaders have every incentive for avoiding them i.e. for standing in the way of international law being enforced,
They must not be allowed to get away with it.
RK
This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Sun 22 Feb 2026. Read the original here.
UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations
A landmark referral of UEFA and FIFA leaders to the International Criminal Court could set an important legal precedent.
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Indipendetly of the outcome of every action taken there is one thing people can do to obtain a consistent result: boycott the economy of countries that do not respect human rights and international laws: USA, Israel, Russia and so on.
Infantino probably will get awawy with anything but if the USA World cup is a flop because of a massive boycott, once that you touch the profit certain miserable people like trump, netanyahu will be affected more, at the end they do not care about human life only power.
And money is a tool to achieve power.