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Incriminating report calls on FIFA to show PFA Chairman Jibril Rajoub the red card

HRW's recently published report on sports, concerning Israeli football in the disputed West Bank, and FIFA's support thereof, completely ignores the PA's use of sports as a vehicle to glorify and promote terror.

This comprehensive PMW report documents that Jibril Rajoub has consistently supported terror and even incited to murder. The report includes documentation of Rajoub's support for attacks during the recent terror wave (2015-2016); his use of his title as Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee...

Palestinian Authority school hosts basketball game for high school girls named after terrorist who led killing of 37 g “The Dalal Mughrabi Cup” Terror glorifying game "held under the auspices" of PA Ministry of Education official Palestinian NGO supported by inter-governmental institution under...

Fatah about dead terrorist: "Heroic Martyr... watered the soil Palestine with his pure blood"

The official PA daily recently published an op-ed calling for “prosecution” of Palestinians involved in “normalization” activities with Israel. (Sept. 08, 2015)

Palestinian sports teams named after Rabbi Glick’s shooter and terrorists Abu Jihad, Khaled Nazzal and Abu Ali Mustafa, who together were responsible for the murders of more than 150 people. (June 25, 2015)

In 2015, the PA submitted a request to FIFA to suspend Israel. This PMW report shows the irony of the PA request, since the PA uses sports to further entrench the conflict with Israel and to send the message that murdering Israeli civilians is honorable and heroic.

If anyone should be suspended from FIFA, it is the PA, which uses sports to entrench the conflict and glorify terror.

Several Fatah tournaments were named after Abu Jihad, who was behind the murder of 125.

14 Palestinian terrorists who murdered over 160 people honored this month.

The university named a tournament after terrorist Ibrahim Al-Akari, who deliberately ran over pedestrians in Jerusalem last month, killing two and injuring 13.

"MP Gordon Henderson has said Palestinian society is wracked by a "culture of hate" towards Israel and claimed British funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is being used to reward terrorism."

A look back at the real Arafat, leader of the terror campaign (Intifada) against Israel that targeted civilians. (Nov. 28, 2012)

Fatah sponsored the tournament named after terrorists who murdered a civilian in 2009. (Aug. 21, 2012)

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad sponsors a fencing tournament for youth named after the terrorist leader Abu Jihad. (April 14, 2010)

Clinton erroneously condemned only Hamas, and not Mahmoud Abbas and the PA, for naming square after terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi. (March 23, 2010)

The official PA daily has published UNRWA's denial that a tournament named after terrorist Abu Jihad was held at an UNRWA educational institution. (Feb. 25, 2010)