Tag: FIFA

The Israeli team is ranked second in the world.

Previously, Israeli citizens could only enter Qatar for such events if they also held another nation’s passport.

The Arab street is worried.

NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.

Back in 2018, the Saudis refused to play the PA team in Ramallah in a FIFA qualifying match, and the game was played in Jordan instead.

FIFA convicted Rajoub of breaching Article 53 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code for inciting hatred and violence.

Other than depicting a vastly unequal relationship between a largely white government and darker skinned subjects, there are no factual comparisons that can be made between the PA and the Gaza Strip and Bantoestan.

Rajoub once said Israel's request to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics by Black September terrorists was "racist."

According to the ICC, the PA had standing to file its appeal because it is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Rajoub has been suspended and fined by FIFA for inciting violence against players and families of the Argentinian national football team. As a result of Rajoub's incitement, a planned friendly match between Israel and Argentina was canceled several months ago.

"It’s high time the Palestinian leadership should understand that incitement to hatred and violence is hateful, dangerous and totally unacceptable."

Putin's summons has to do with one Josip Broz Tito, born in Kumrovec, Croatia, and one of very few Eastern European Communist leaders to stand up to the Russians successfully.

The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.

PA Football Association head Jibril Rajoub not only fails to get soccer’s world governing body to suspend Israel, but ends up facing disciplinary proceedings over his incitement against Israel.

The same sources suggest Argentina, which hopes to host the 2030 World Cup, was reluctant to upset the Arab voting bloc inside FIFA.

"The [Palestinian] Olympic Committee made the decision, and as a competitor I cannot oppose them," the boxer said.

The Palestinian Authority is hosting FIFA affiliated tournaments in Jerusalem named after some of the worst Jihadist terrorists ever. Are these events brainwashing the next generation of Arab youth? Joshua Hasten interviews Barry Shaw today on Israel Uncensored.

The FIFA council decided it's simply “too early” for the congress to make a decision on such an issue.

Egypt has extended protection to an Israeli football coach for Ghana, after receiving threats on his life from Egyptian "fans."

UN secretary general’s special advisor on sport Wilfried Lemke has been lobbying on behalf of Rajoub, and sent FIFA a letter advising that all Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is illegal, which includes Jewish soccer teams.

The Palestinian Authority is trying to convince FIFA to ban Israel from the international football league, again.

The project focuses on lower-league soccer throughout Israel, emphasizing how Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities come together through the game.

The self-inflicted daily decline of humanity of the Gazans has reached another new low.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter resigns from his post amid a massive corruption scandal just four days after being elected to a fifth term.

After he dropped the FIFA ball, now he wants to make a bigger fool out of himself.

Foreign Ministry nerds are wrongly calling the boycott an aftermath of the FIFA nonsense.

Some in Jordan has accused Rajoub of supporting the incumbent FIFA president, Joseph Blatter, over his rival, Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein.

Steinmeier met with Netanyahu, Rivlin and Herzog.

FIFA's Palestinian Authority soccer chief dropped the ball on his own head.

Israel praises FIFA for avoiding what Israel’s deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely called an “absurd situation.”