For Immediate Release May 26, 2015

ISRAELI LEGAL GROUP DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (FIFA) EXPEL
THE PRESIDENT OF PALESTINIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE OVER SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM

Shurat HaDin Organization’s Letter to FIFA Chief Documents Jabril Rajoub’s
Support & Incitement to Violence Against Israelis

Tel Aviv (May 26, 2015) – In the latest development in an international
controversy between Israelis and the Palestinians over the latter’s call for
Israel to be expelled from a world football association, an Israeli legal
rights organization in Tel Aviv is alleging that the president of the
Palestinian league is deeply involved in supporting terrorist attacks on
Jewish civilians and calling for a nuclear strike against the Jewish State.

Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, which represents terror victims and combats
efforts to delegitimize the Jewish State, has written to the President of
the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Joseph
Blatter, demanding that he expel Jabril Rajoub, the President of the
Palestinian Football Association, for advocating the killing of Israeli
civilians and the use of nuclear weapons against the State of Israel.

Rajoub serves as head of the Palestinian football authority while he also is
Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee of Fatah. Fatah is the parent
organization of the arch-terrorist group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is
responsible for attacks causing countless deaths and injuries among
Israelis, said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Founder and President of Shurat
HaDin. The letter notes that Fatah was the PLO faction behind the 1972
Munich Olympic’s terrorist attack that left 11 Israeli athletes dead.

In the letter to FIFA, Ms. Darshan-Leitner emphasized that Rajoub's remarks
constitute grave breaches of his obligation to comply with FIFA's statutes
and rules prohibiting discrimination, intimidation and violence against
individuals and groups. “It is outrageous that FIFA would allow a senior
official of a terrorist organization to serve in a public position” the
letter states.

Rajoub has "promoted, supervised and glorified" a number of attacks by Fatah
and by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades against Israel, Ms. Darshan-Leitner
said.

The letter alleges that Rajoub said that Israel is "our enemy and our battle
is against them." Worse, Ms. Darshan-Leitner noted that Rajoub has said that
in the armed conflict between Israel and Palestinian irregular groups –
otherwise known as terror organizations – the “resistance” should be fought
by all means, and using all weapons, and that “if we had nuclear weapons, we’d
be using them."

Moreover, it notes, that after Israel's summer 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza,
he openly praised the efforts of terrorists in the Strip, who fired more
than 4,000 rockets into Israeli civilian areas.

"To say that such violent, hateful, discriminatory conduct is beneath the
high ideals of FIFA for peace, sportsmanship and collegiality is to
massively understate the obvious," Ms. Darshan-Leitner said in the letter.
"Rajoub has no place in FIFA because he has cynically and brazenly flouted
FIFA's standards for conduct in Article 3 of the FIFA Statutes (August 2014)
and in Article 53 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (2011 ed.)," she said.
According to FIFA's standards, violation of the nondiscrimination statute is
punishable by suspension or expulsion.

In addition, inciting hatred and violence is punishable by fines of at least
5,000 Swiss francs. If that incitement is committed through the mass media
or it takes place on a game day or near a stadium, the minimum fine is
20,000 Swiss francs.

"I urge you to preserve the impartiality and good name of FIFA" and to expel
him from international football's governing organization, she said.

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