The Palestine Chronicle: ‘This Is Our Problem’: Guardiola Speaks on Gaza as Hedvig Lindahl Rejects FIFA ‘Peace Campaign’

Key Takeaways

• Pep Guardiola described Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide and called silence a moral failure.
• Guardiola said global injustices — from Gaza to Sudan and Ukraine — demand human, not political, responses.
• Former Sweden goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl rejected a FIFA honor, accusing it of whitewashing Israeli crimes.
• Lindahl criticized FIFA’s double standards, noting Israel faces no sanctions despite mass Palestinian deaths.
• Both interventions reflect growing athlete-led challenges to institutional silence on Gaza.

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