Add The California Post on Google A World Cup journalist covering the tournament in the US espoused horrific pro-Hamas views on Oct. 7, according to a legal watchdog looking to nix his visa.
The Lawfare Project has asked State Department chief Marco Rubio to kick BeIN Sports journalist Ibrahim Khadra out of the country for his past comments on social media.
Khadra, a senior international correspondent, compared Hamas’ attack on Israel to a soccer spectacle in a post in 2023, saying he believed the massacre to be “far more exciting than football.”
“Apologies to the Premier League matches—regardless of the excitement or results—but today’s “Super Saturday” is brought to you by #Gaza,” he wrote in a since-deleted post.
“It scored goals that pierced the enemy’s nets, breached their borders and lines of soldiers, and caught them off guard from where they least expected.
The journalist, who says he is from Gaza, also praised former Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah as a “righteous martyr” following his death in 2024.
Most recently, he cheered on Iran’s June 2025 missile strikes on Tel Aviv. He posted a picture of a wrecked Israeli apartment building and suggested Israel should be met with force for the war in Gaza.
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“Whoever always speaks the language of violence and force cannot understand or comprehend any other language,” he wrote of the strike.
“This is your merchandise returned to you, and we wish for you what you wish for us.”
Recent social media posts placed Khadra in Kansas City on Tuesday, two days before the FIFA World Cup is set to begin and about a week before the city’s first match. Argentina will take on Algeria on June 16.
The Lawfare Project, which calls itself the “legal arm of the Jewish community,” decided to raise the issue after a follower informed them of Khadra’s FIFA work.
“This is an individual who would not have qualified to be given a visa based on his activities including his espousal of support for foreign terrorist organizations, and even though the visa appears to have been granted, and he appears to be in the US, that is something that he can absolutely have his visa revoked for, and he can be removed from the country,” a lawyer with the Lawfare Project, Gerard Filitti, told The California Post.
“We’re asking the government to do just that,” he added.
Filitti said the government was informed on Monday, but has yet to respond to the inquiry. The group also hand-delivered documents detailing Khadra’s action to Sen. Ted Cruz’s office and to other members on Capitol Hill.
The lawyer says the most damaging part of Khadra’s continued presence in the United States is his ability to espouse his pro-terror views in front of soccer fans.
“A press pass is a credential to cover an event,” he said. “It is not license to use that access to broadcast support for designated terrorist organizations, and that’s precisely what he has done inside stadiums.”
The legal group has specifically requested that Khadra’s visa be revoked and that he be removed from the United States by ICE. Not doing so would be allowing the journalist to convert “a World Cupcredential into a platform for terrorist glorification on American soil.”
The State Department has removed people on visas within the United States on similar pro-terror grounds in past months.
The department canceled the visa of a student who protested on behalf of Hamas in March.
The California Post reached out to Khadra, his employer, and the State Department for comment.
