TPAN

Join us for some fun social games of football and some short films and discussion!

5:30pm: Play

7pm: short films and discussion

If you want to play, please register, so we can keep even teams.

Playing for 16+ only, but all levels are welcome!

Children are welcome to watch.

If you don't want to play, just come and watch the games, or just join us for the films and discussion!

The hall can get a bit cold, so bring warm clothes/blankets.

israel has killed more than 800 athletes in Gaza during the ongoing genocide, including 421 football players. Additionally, they target limbs of players, detain them or prevent them from travelling and have destroyed 288 sports facilities in Gaza and the West Bank.

Yet, FIFA has not suspended or sanctioned the israeli Football Association, and instead continues to support their sport-washing of genocide, apartheid and occupation.

Compare this to Russia: within days of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national and club teams from competition “until further notice.” That ban remains in place today, four years on, locking Russia out of the 2026 World Cup entirely. Yet despite far longer-documented violence against Palestinian athletes, no such consequence has ever applied to israel, only the same art-washing and sport-washing playbook used to launder its image through the sport.

And of course, israel isn't the only colonial project FIFA provides these services too. For instance, they recently handed their 'peace prize' to Donald Trump.

After the games we will watch some short films and discuss FIFA, reclaiming sports, genocide normalisation and collective action.