Israel FA considering complaint against Heimir Hallgrímsson for use of word ‘genocide’

    https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/09/21/israel-fa-considering-complaint-against-heimir-hallgrimsson-for-use-of-word-genocide/

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    1. Does genocide upset the Israelis?
      Have they tried just not Genociding?
      Dropping 2000lb bombs on refugee camps can be fair upsetting for the poor lambs can’t it?
      Maybe they should just stop?
      Or maybe UEFA could grow a pair & appropriately sanction them for existing rule breeches such as clubs playing on occupied lands!
      https://www.amnesty.ie/global_fifa_refusal_to_act_over_israeli_clubs_based_in_illegal_settlements_flouts_international_law/

      Let alone having the balls to treat the Apartheid state the same way as South Africa was handled or indeed Russia (despite the creeping overturning of their sporting bans).

    2. Unlucky-Adeptness-48 on

      How the f#ck is this game going ahead. If carry out a decades long genocide isn’t enough to stop a game what is.

    3. 23,000 of the approximately 74,000 Palestinians who have died in Gaza at the hands of Israel and the IDF were children. I’m fairly certain that it’s a genocide. Israel’s FA can complain all they want, but it doesn’t change anything. It’s blatantly genocide.

    4. Material-Pie-5548 on

      Removed from r/soccer because of a rule on “factual titles” which goes to show how much a joke that sub is 

    5. Common-Regret-4120 on

      I can predict tomorrows headline already:

      “Heimir Hallgrímsson 
      considering complaint against 
      Israel FA 
      for supporting ‘genocide’ “

    6. UEFA’s as corrupt as an old FAT drive removed from its host computer halfway through transferring a gigabyte of ultrahentai anyway.

    7. Specific-Manager-125 on

      Hope they do …..UEFA will be forced to publicly confirm their disgusting hypocrisy again

    8. soundengineerguy on

      Israel love being the victim. They are pros at it. Unfortunately they are also pros at commiting a fucking genocide.

    9. Fine with their government and army slaughtering tens of thousands of kids

      Get their feelings hurt when called out.

      Fuck Israel.

    10. I’ve gotten used to the fact a lot of people these days think accusing someone of racism is worse than being racist. But the Israeli FA hasn’t released a statement condemning the actions of the IDF in Gaza. So clearly it considers the word genocide is worse than actual genocide.

    11. The UN calls it Genocide

      “Last year, the commission concluded that “Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued, resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.”

      Here are some findings in the commission’s latest report:

      * Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since 7 October 2023
      * Severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation and the collapse of education and healthcare have erased childhood and will continue to affect children in Gaza throughout their lives
      * Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts
      * Israeli security forces have used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered and intergenerational pattern of occupation and hostilities”

      [https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167790](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167790)

      The Israel FA needs to shut up

    12. Israel FA can go fuck themselves. Israel is committing genocide and still somehow have the nerve to play the victim. Let me make this very clear: Israel is not, and will never be, the victim. They are a genocidal ethnostate that should never have been created.

    13. The UN says it’s genocide. That’s good enough for me. That, and the more than seventy thousand dead civilians, women and children.