Rajoub har under lång tid understött terrorism mot Israel och motarbetat normalisering och samarbete inom idrott.
FIFA TO PROBE RAJOUB FOR GLORIFYING TERROR, INCITING VIOLENCE (Jerusalem Post)
The investigation is based on evidence submitted to FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which found that Rajoub and the PFA have been promoting and glorifying terrorism; inciting hatred and violence; promoting racism; and preventing the use of the game of soccer to build a bridge for peace.
...The 2017 complaint explained how Rajoub has honored terrorist murderers, calling them “sacred,” including convicted Palestinian plane hijacker Leila Khalid and terrorist Abu Sukkar – who planned and carried out a 1975 bombing in Jerusalem in which 15 people were killed and over 60 people wounded – among many others.
The complaint took these points further. PMW submitted evidence that shows how in October 2015, just after the wave of stabbing attacks began, “instead of using his influence to calm the murderous atmosphere” Rajoub “chose to promote and glorify terrorism and terrorists.”
PMW charged that in an interview broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV on October 17, 2015, Rajoub, “referring directly to the terrorists said, ‘These are individual acts of bravery, and I am proud of them. I congratulate everyone who carried them out. I say to you, we are proud of you.’”
This is not the first time Rajoub has been disciplined by the football umbrella body.
In August last year, FIFA fined Rajoub 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,340) and banned from matches for a year by FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee for threatening Lionel Messi, the star striker of the Argentine soccer team.
At the time, Rajoub had urged fans to burn pictures and shirts of Messi if he played in a friendly soccer game against Israel in Jerusalem that was eventually canceled.
Palestinian hypocrisy: Jibril Rajoub forbids Palestinian-Israeli sports, yet in Paris says sports is "a bridge of love and connection with the international community" (PMW)
Rajoub: "Anyone who participates in any joint [sports] activity with the Israelis -- I'll take him off the [Palestinian Football] Association's lists, whether he is a player, coach, referee or, God forbid, a team."
[Official PA TV, July 1, 2013]
Referring to a friendly soccer game between Israeli and Palestinian children shortly after the 2014 war in Gaza, Rajoub stated that:
"Any activity of normalization in sports with the Zionist enemy is a crime against humanity."
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