As the world turns its eyes to the United States for the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on June 12, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) is demanding that the international community do the opposite: look away, and boycott.

In a blistering statement released today, BAP argues that the U.S. has rendered itself “ineligible to host the games” through its ongoing genocide complicity, domestic ICE terror, detention, and assaults on global sovereignty. The organization calls on fans, teams, and federations to withdraw all support.

“It is outrageous and obscene that FIFA would allow the United States—a nation operating completely outside the bounds of international law—to host the World Cup while providing material support for genocide, unleashing ICE goons who disappear people into detention gulags, and invading a sitting president.” — Ajamu Baraka, Director, North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP National Coordinator Erica Caines acknowledges that many won’t understand: “Participation in the games while hosted in the U.S. does not uphold the Beautiful Game. It risks normalizing genocide, domestic repression, militarism, and death.”

BAP is urging media to cover the case for a World Cup boycott as a human rights and foreign policy story; the contrast between FIFA’s celebration and the hunger strikes, detention centers, and imperial violence happening on the same soil; and the call to action to “boycott the United States” itself.

Read the full statement

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