Hours before the 2026 World Cup final in Toronto between Portugal and Croatia, a group of activists in Canada called on FIFA to immediately suspend Israel.

Hours before the 2026 World Cup final in Toronto between Portugal and Croatia, a group of activists in Canada called on FIFA to immediately suspend Israel.This is the second action staged by the Kick Israel Out of FIFA campaign. Earlier this month, the group displayed a banner calling for the release of Palestinian football players detained by Israel.FIFA suspended Russia from international competition within days of its invasion of Ukraine, the group said in a statement shared with TRT World.Article 64.2 of the FIFA Statutes strictly prohibits any member association from playing matches on another member associations territory without permission.Israeli league clubs based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and the occupied Syrian Golan have done exactly that for years, with FIFA not merely tolerating the practice but actively facilitating and broadcasting the matches on its official channels, the press release addedSource: @trtworld on X/Twitter