Published: 4 March 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Asian Football Confederation revives expulsion threat to Israel over treatment of Palestine - Keir Radnedge – World Soccer 28.02.17
FIFA was due to receive, in January, an update from its monitoring taskforce on Israeli-Palestinian issues being led by South Africa’s Tokyo Sexwale. No update was forthcoming, however, only being promised at some unspecified future date. Absent speedy resolution of the outstanding issues, the Palestine federation’s president, Jibril Rajoub, is reportedly set to reactivate through the Asian Football Confederation a demand that May’s FIFA Congress in Bahrain expel Israel, a proposal that has been taken off the table at the last moment three times in the last four years
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