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Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for football’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold

In The Guardian, Jules Boykoff argues FIFA betrayed its human rights commitments by failing to suspend Israel over Gaza, citing UN genocide findings, illegal settlement clubs, racism, and the killing of Palestinian athletes like Suleiman Obeid.
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Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for football’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold

Excellent as always from @julesboykoff.bsky.social, laying out the case for the expulsion of the Israel Football Association from FIFA and UEFA. A moral imperative, anchored in governance rules and principles www.theguardian.com/football/202...

El Jones: Halifax Regional Council has invested $50,000 into the Canada-Israel Davis cup match in order to “put heads in beds,” even as the heads of Palestinian children are being exploded in their beds in Gaza.

Episode 163

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Shame on Tennis Canada - so embarrassing that they don’t realize that sport has always been political- it is a human invention after all!

Far too often National Sports Organizations succumb to this sort of hypocrisy. Some people's human rights are valued more than others. Some are accorded humanity, some are not. It's blatant discrimination.

Hey Tennis Canada: this is how you do it.

Much respect.

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No tennis for Genocide No to the Canada-Israel Davis Cup match in Halifax (sign mounted to pole above walk request button)

Photo taken and shared by John van Gurp

The Olympics Is the Last Thing LA Needs as It Deals With Fires and ICE | Common Dreams A new poll from the anti-Olympics coalition NOlympicsLA finds that public support for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics has soured significantly over time.

My latest @commondreams.org: "The Olympics Is the Last Thing LA Needs as It Deals With Fires & ICE," and a new poll from @nolympicsla.bsky.social shows that Angelenos agree
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US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in women's categories Transgender women will no longer be eligible to compete for the United States in the Olympic or Paralympic Games in women's sports, after a policy change from the USOPC.

This fucking sucks AND is absolutely in violation of the IOC's framework for inclusion — which state that without clear evidence from each specific sport, you cannot ban athletes based on gender or sex, or presume an advantage. abcnews.go.com/US/us-olympi...

By making Adam van Koeverden the Minister of Sport, the Carney government has done abuse survivors a grave disservice and put meaningful, sustainable change on hold. Poor start to the sport portfolio.

Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli

when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔

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In the sunshine!

I can hear Springsteen ‘Glory Days’ as I look at the photo 😄

Being Ethnographic Podcast Episode · Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast · EP6 · 30m

It was great to be interviewed for @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social's podcast for her new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone. In Ep.6, "Being Ethnographic", we discuss our experiences of ethnographic methods & the challenges faced by researchers using this method today tinyurl.com/4ddbunfd

Yes, elbows up and all that. But let's continue to work against racism and violence against all Canadians.
Because it doesn't matter how high your elbows are when someone's trying to light your hijab on fire.
(📷 via National Council of Canadian Muslims - IG)

Join us for the first of our new digital series ⬇️

Soccer fans around the world call on FIFA, UEFA to 'show Israel the red card' | CBC News As Israel prepares to play its 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, its soccer teams are facing calls to be banned from all competitions.

I am grateful to my friend and colleague @mouhamadrachini.bsky.social for this piece on one of the most underreported stories in the world of sports.
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Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry elected as 1st-ever female IOC president | CBC Sports Behind closed doors inside a resort in western Greece, International Olympic Committee members elected the first female president of the largest global sporting organization on Thursday. Kirsty Covent...

Thank goodness it was not Coe!https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/ioc-presidential-election-march-2025-1.7488425

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As a human rights scholar, I've read countless reports where both Western media + prominent human rights organizations term this as an "enforced disappearance" when this happens in other countries. Wild (and completely unsurprising) how the same terminology is missing when it's happening in the US

Analysing the content of sport policies: disciplinary approaches and new directions Over time, there have been various important contributions that have advanced the application of different conceptual and theoretical approaches to analysing policy processes across the field of sp...

Co-authored article w/ @stuartwhigham.bsky.social and Marc Keech has now found its home in ISPP Volume 17

It considers four disciplinary approaches to analysing the content of sport policies, with recommendations for how researchers can advance usage of them

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Canadian soccer coach Marsch tells Trump to 'lay off ridiculous rhetoric' of Canada as 51st state | CBC Sports Canada soccer coach Jesse Marsch waded into politics Wednesday, telling United States President Donald Trump to "lay off the ridiculous rhetoric about Canada being a 51st state."

Jesse Marsch has shown more patriotism than Wayne Gretzky.

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Investigator on SafeSport case gets arrested, and now a survivor is facing trauma once again The U.S. Center for SafeSport's recent firing of an investigator who was arrested for sex crimes is having a negative ripple effect for some of the people whose cases he handled.

"story serves as a bracing example of the potentially devastating ripple effect the former police officer-turned-SafeSport investigator’s arrest for sex crimes - and the center’s response to it - can have on the people whose cases he handled."

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Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL [HOME USE ONLY] THIS VIDEO IS FOR HOME USE ONLY: To purchase or rent this film for public screenings or for educational, organizational, or institutional use, an educational license…

2 recs ahead of today's Super Bowl:
(1) "Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL." @edgeofsports.bsky.social provides crucial historical & political context that'll help you better understand what you see (and don't see) on screen today. Free until kickoff: vimeo.com/753528184/94...

Coe as IOC president would not be good - he cannot be trusted to govern in an age where equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI+) are vital!

Extremely worrying 👇😡

@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social - I am currently reading your ‘manifesto’ - Value(s) … be careful getting into politics can be soul destroying in the neo-liberal age