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More than one hundred sports associations, trade unions, human rights organizations and faith based groups, representing millions of people from 28 countries across the globe, on Wednesday joined football...

Tokyo Sexwale, chair of FIFA's Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine, has missed yet another deadline to submit his report to FIFA's leadership on the matter of Israel's football clubs located in...

Football fans flocking to watch the 2022 World Cup will not be allowed to consume alcohol publicly in Qatar, tournament organisers have confirmed. "There will be no alcohol consumption on...

Albania has moved Saturday's World Cup European Group G qualifier with Israel from the northern city of Shkoder to a venue near the capital Tirana due to security concerns,...

Egypt is increasing security ahead of a football game which sees Ghana play the national team after authorities reportedly received threats against the Israeli Ghana coach. The game, due...

The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) wants FIFA to adopt what he called a Crimea-style solution to prevent Israeli league clubs from being based in settlements in...

The deputy secretary-general of Bahrain's opposition Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said "there is no place for Zionists in Bahrain" after the country's authorities decided to host an Israeli delegation to take part...

The United Nations' special adviser on sport for development and peace, Wilfried Lemke, has affirmed in a letter to FIFA that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused FIFA, the worldwide football association, of "holding games on stolen land", in a new report on Israeli football clubs based in illegal West...

Israeli permission to leave Gaza Strip is becoming much harder to come by, according to aid workers, activists

Glasgow Celtic Football Club is arguably Scotland's most famous and successful team, but rarely does it make headlines beyond the sports pages; until now. Celtic's fans have demonstrated an...

Sport is often regarded as a "no go" area for politics, especially by those states intent on portraying an air of normality around their regimes on the world stage....

The 50th anniversary of the 1966 World Cup Final played at Wembley has produced misty-eyed memories for a number of us old enough to recall that certain football match...

Responding to criticism over his failure to appoint a foreign minister since March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset State Control Committee on Monday that "Israel's ties...

The remarkable claim by trade unionists that more than 7,000 workers will die on construction sites in Qatar before the first game of the 2022 World Cup kicks off...

The Palestinian sports ministry yesterday called on FIFA to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to stop its violations against Palestinian sportsmen and athletes, Quds Press reported. Speaking to...

A man who may have ordered footballers in his own country to be tortured runs for the presidency of the most important footballing organisation in the world, and the...

The trouble with dictators, despots and royalty across the world is that they surround themselves with fawning fools who are too afraid or too servile to tell their masters...

Member of the PLO and head of Youth and Sports Committee Ali Ishaq called on the International Federation of Football Association's (FIFA) Sepp Blatter to put pressure on Israel...

Members of the West Bank-based Ahli Al-Khalil football team entered the blockaded Gaza Strip late Tuesday – via Israel's Erez border crossing – for the first time in 15...

The FIFA committee which was recently set up to discuss Israeli violations against Palestinian sport is to convene for the first time on 28 July, the head of the...

The Orange affair The Orange affair here is not the ominous orange of the victims of Guantanamo or the Islamic state – it about the French telecommunication company Orange...

Since Israel's new hard-right coalition government came to power last month, there have been two major bogey men: Iran and BDS, the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction...

Events last Friday afternoon at the closing session of the FIFA congress in Zurich have produced a great deal of commentary and social media posts. Most focus on the...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday met Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein in Amman to end the crisis over the FIFA proposal, Jordanian news agency Petra reported. Abbas...

A Palestinian, European and international wave of outrage erupted yesterday as soon as the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had dropped its bid to suspend Israel from FIFA, Quds Press...

For many observers, the fact that Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president of FIFA came as no surprise. As expected, he was determined to stay in office despite the...

The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has dropped its proposal to suspend Israel from world football. The motion had been included on the agenda at the FIFA Congress in Zurich...

Tomorrow, FIFA will come to a decision on whether they will suspend Israel's football association after the Palestinian Football Federation filed a complaint on Israeli abuse towards Palestinian footballers....

This week, the eyes of the world are on Fifa, the international governing body of football, after top executives were arrested in Switzerland on American corruption charges. Fifa has...

An international campaigning community has released a petition calling on the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) to suspend Israel's membership until it stops its discriminatory policies against the...

Walking through some of the most miserable camps on earth where people have sought refuge after fleeing wars or natural disasters is always a humbling experience. However, it's not...