{"id":63594,"date":"2018-09-14T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63594"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:32:44","slug":"30-05-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63594","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Slaps Palestinian Soccer Chief Jibril Rajoub"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>FIFA Slaps Palestinian Soccer Chief Jibril Rajoub With One-Year Ban for \u2018Inciting Hatred and Violence\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Palestinian FA chief Jibril Rajoub speaks during a news conference, in Ramallah, June 6, 2018. Photo: Reuters \/ Mohamad Torokman.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More than a decade of incitement against Israel\u2019s participation in world soccer by Jibril Rajoub \u2014 the former convicted terrorist who heads the Palestine Football Association (PFA) \u2014 backfired spectacularly on Friday, when soccer\u2019s international governing body, FIFA, slapped him with a twelve-month ban.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rajoub\u2019s specific offense centered on his\u00a0inflammatory<\/a>\u00a0comments toward Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi in June, when Argentina had been scheduled to play a pre-World Cup friendly against Israel in Jerusalem. The June 9 fixture was subsequently nixed, in large part because of the naked threats made by Rajoub, who warned that Messi was \u201ca big symbol so we are going to target him personally and we call on all to burn his picture and his shirt and to abandon him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the cancellation of the game, Rajoub abruptly changed his tune, obsequiously thanking Messi and the Argentine FA for pulling out.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, FIFA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee concluded that Rajoub had breached the organization\u2019s disciplinary code with statements that \u201cincited hatred and violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fining Rajoub 20,000 Swiss Francs \u2014 just over $20,000 \u2014 the committee declared: \u201cThe 12 month suspension imposed on Mr. Rajoub entails a ban on taking part in any future match or competition taking place in the given period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Attempting to pre-empt Rajoub\u2019s regular practice of denouncing his enemies to the press, FIFA underlined that the ban extended to \u201cmedia activities at stadiums or in their vicinity on match days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An ex-terrorist released in a 1985 prisoner exchange between Israel and an extremist Palestinian faction, Rajoub has straddled the worlds of politics and sports for more than a decade. He\u00a0also heads the PA\u2019s Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs and is the chairman of the Palestinian\u00a0Olympic Committee, in addition to his role with the Palestine FA. In the past, he served as a national security adviser to the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, and was the head of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank from 1994 until 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here is the decision from FIFA Disciplinary Committee on Palestine FA President Jibril Rajoub<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Rajoub has long used his sporting affiliations\u00a0to promote a boycott of Israeli athletes and encourage terror against the Jewish state. In 2014, he violated the regulations of the International Olympic Committee, of which Israel is a member, by describing \u201cnormalization in sports with the Zionist enemy\u201d as a \u201ccrime against humanity.\u201d The following year, he pursued a failed campaign to expel Israel from FIFA, world soccer\u2019s governing body.<\/span><\/p>\n

A more recent effort to persuade FIFA to sanction\u00a0six Israeli clubs based in the West Bank similarly failed after opposition from European soccer associations, causing Rajoub to opine that Palestinian soccer players were being made \u201cscapegoats for what some European countries did against the Jews last century\u201d \u2014 a reference to the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FIFA Slaps Palestinian Soccer Chief Jibril Rajoub With One-Year Ban for \u2018Inciting Hatred and Violence\u2019 Ben Cohen Palestinian FA chief Jibril Rajoub speaks during a news conference, in Ramallah, June 6, 2018. Photo: Reuters \/ Mohamad Torokman. More than a decade of incitement against Israel\u2019s participation in world soccer by Jibril Rajoub \u2014 the former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63893,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions\/63893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}