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In just over two weeks, the annual FIFA Congress will convene in Zurich. On the agenda – a "proposal by the Palestinian Football Association for the suspension of the...

Two corrupt entities – FIFA and Israel, have teamed up to ensure another request from Palestine to an international organisation is ridiculed and rejected. As the Palestine FA stated...

The head of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, has held discussions with the secretary general of the Arab League (AL), Nabil El-Araby, regarding ways for the AL to...

Stop The Wall has published a detailed summary of the funds that Europe's research programme Horizon 2020 will be granting to Israel for 205 projects approved by the EU....

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) yesterday condemned Israel's decision to prevent a member of the Palestine national team Sameh Marabah from travelling to Jordan on his way to Australia...

A delegation from football governing body FIFA arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday after being blocked by Israeli authorities for hours, a Palestinian football official has said. "The...

The president of the Arab Sports Council is to call on FIFA President Sepp Blatter to use his position to put pressure on Israel to stop its violations against...

The Palestinian Football Federation yesterday called on FIFA to show Israel "the red card" after Israeli soldiers stormed its offices in Ramallah last week, Arabs48.com reported. Palestinian Football Federation...

UEFA officials are encouraging Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein, FIFA vice president, to run against FIFA president Sepp Blatter in the coming elections for the presidency. British tabloid newspaper The...

Efforts by the QatarI authorities to reassure the world that all is well with its 2022 World Cup undertaking received a further setback on Wednesday when Amnesty International released...

German footballer Mesut Ozil, who plays for Arsenal, said he is donating his World Cup earnings to the children of Gaza following his country's triumph in the cup. The...

First the Palestinian flag was draped from the team bus during the team's triumphant open-top bus tour of the capital, now it has been claimed that the Algerian national...

The FIFA Congress decided on June 11 to form a neutral committee to monitor Israeli violations against the Palestinian football team, Deputy Director of International Relations at the Palestinian...

Now in the Washington, D.C. area, Kuttab is founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and also a co-founder of Nonviolence International, which just put out a 45-page...

Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi has called upon FIFA President Sepp Blatter to end the suffering of Palestinian athletes, especially footballers. Blatter, the head of FIFA, the governing body...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel is placing hurdles in the way of Palestinian participation in sports and violating international laws and FIFA's rules. During his meeting at...

Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal Bin Fahd, General President of Youth Welfare authority in Saudi Arabia, said in an interview with the Saudi Sabq electronic newspaper that the Federation Internationale...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...

The president of the European Union of Football Associations (UAFA), Michel Platini, has threatened to annul Israel's membership to the union because of the restrictions it imposes on Palestinian...

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has pledged that football's world-governing body will rebuild the Palestine stadium in the Gaza Strip after it was damaged by several Israeli air strikes...