FIFA promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs, then allowed them to play on. This decision deepens FIFA’s complicity in the Israeli occupation. There are now 10 operating in the occupied West Bank, and they are getting bigger.
A body of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has slapped harsh fines on three of its member clubs, because some fans flew Palestinian flags during their games. UEFA deems the flags to be “a political, ideological, religious or provocative nature.”