“This Is Historic”: FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israel’s War Crimes A coming filing with the ICC accuses FIFA’s Gianni Infantino and UEFA’s Aleksander Čeferin of crimes against humanity for their financial support of settlement clubs. According to a public statement from the filing parties, Infantino, as well as Union of European Football Association President Aleksander Čeferin, are facing accusations that FIFA and UEFA funded settlement clubs—that is, football clubs that operate on land illegally seized from Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The filing parties write that FIFA and UEFA’s financial support of these clubs legitimizes Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, which contributes to “the transfer of civilian population into occupied territories contrary to the Rome Statute art 8(2)(b)(viii)” and “aids and abets apartheid (a crime against humanity pursuant to Rome Statute art 7(1)(j)).”
Author: Dave Zirin,Chuck Modiano
Published at: 2025-12-10 00:00:00
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