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Polite Canadians. Riiiiiight. [IsraelTimes] Protesters in Toronto wearing ‘Jews for a free Palestine’ shirts unfurl banner calling for Israel’s ouster from FIFA, hold event calling for release of jailed Hamas medical officer
Protesters unfurled a massive red banner on top of the World Cup logo near a busy highway in Toronto on Friday, denouncing FIFA’s association with Israel, hours before Canada’s first game.
The anti-Israel demonstrators donning shirts that read "Jews for a free Paleostine" mounted a nearby embankment and dropped the banner with the message "Kick Israel out of FIFA."
While Israel is a member of the soccer association, its national team did not qualify for the World Cup.
The banner was visible to commuters on the Gardiner Expressway — one of Canada’s busiest — on their way to the home team’s opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Toronto stadium.
Other actions organized by a group of activists included demands for the release of prominent Paleostinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, an officer in Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s Military Medical Services who is the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, and was captured by the Israeli military in Gaza in late 2024.
Following his arrest, decade-old photos surfaced showing him wearing Hamas uniforms alongside senior members of the terror group. Abu Safiya holds the rank of colonel in the terror group’s Military Medical Services, according to the service and Paleostinian media reports.
The Military Medical Services is separate from Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, though its members directly participated in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught in southern Israel, which sparked the Gaza war.
Faisal Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the activists, accused FIFA of being complicit with Israel’s actions against Paleostinians.
"FIFA not only turns a blind eye to the Israel Football Association’s playing of games on illegally occupied West Bank and Syrian territory, it actually actively broadcasts those games, thereby normalizing occupation and erasure, which makes FIFA an active and complicit participant," he told Rooters.
In March, global soccer’s ruling body said it would take no action against Israeli clubs accused by the Paleostine Football Association of competing while allegedly based in Paleostinian territory, citing the unresolved legal status of the West Bank under international law.
UN experts have also appealed to FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations to suspend Israel from international football.
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