Soccer Fan Accuses Israel of Killing Palestinian Team, Pathetically Falls Apart After Learning Palestinians Slaughtered Israeli Team in 1972
By C. Douglas Golden
June 20, 2026 at 10:11am
The World Cup is here again, which means it’s time for Americans to care about soccer for a few weeks. This is doubly true since America is one of the host nations.
Most of this has been positive. If you’re on social media, you’ve doubtlessly seen foreigners discovering that the U-S-of-A is actually pretty cool and not at all like what their media tells them it is. However, for some pot-stirrers out there, it’s a chance to bring attention to their pet political causes.
In that vein, I give you a pro-Palestinian X user who managed to go bad-viral with the worst possible take on why Palestine isn’t in the World Cup: Israel apparently killed all of its players while the world wasn’t watching.
It’s too bad history doesn’t exactly comport with the facts, as he was soon reminded of.
https://www.westernjournal.com/soccer-fan-accuses-israel-killing-palestinian-team-pathetically-falls-apart-learning-palestinians-slaughtered-israeli-team-1972/
