PETITION: Cancel Aston Villa vs Maccabi Tel Aviv

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We, the undersigned, demand that the FA and UEFA take immediate action to cancel the Aston Villa vs Maccabi Tel Aviv football match on 6 November 2025, and take steps to exclude Israel from international football.

Allowing Israeli football teams to compete in international competitions allows Israel to cynically present itself as a normal country, obscuring the reality of its genocide in Gaza, and imposition of a regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.

Israeli football is inseparable from Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Maccabi Tel Aviv has been directly involved in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including by sending ‘care packages’ to serving Israeli soldiers. The club is part of the Israel Football Association, which contains at least 6 teams located in illegal Israeli settlements based on land stolen from Palestinians in the West Bank. This is in clear violation of UEFA and FIFA statutes.

The now notorious anti-Palestinian racism of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, which includes singing genocidal chants celebrating the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian children, is not an aberration, it’s an ugly by-product of the racist apartheid system that Israel maintains over Palestinians.

Football teams from a state responsible for genocide and implementing apartheid have no place in international sports. Just as teams from apartheid South Africa faced boycotts and expulsion from international cultural and sporting bodies, so should teams from apartheid Israel today.

Immediate action must be taken to stop this match going ahead, and to ban Israel from international football.



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