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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...

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...