"FIFA promised new pitches in the West Bank ... [T]he intended beneficiaries remain unclear. Among them, however, will not be the 1007+ Palestinian sporting figures Israel has killed, nor those predictably denied access at racial checkpoints and roadblocks dotted all over Gaza and the West Bank."
Anodyne
Ten illegal Israeli settlement football clubs now operating in the occupied West Bank and occupied Syrian Golan Heights have been allowed to play on despite FIFA and UEFA promising to investigate them for breaching territorial integrity and anti-racism statutes.
truthout.org
The football governing body promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs — but then allowed them to play on.
