Human Rights Watch and FIFA test Middle East fallout of Trump’s election
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By James M. Dorsey
Human Rights Watch (HRW), in an initial probing of the impact of the rise of US President-elect Donald J. Trump, has asked the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights to include world football body FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) in a registry of enterprises that do business with Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
The request is based on the fact that the Israel Football Association (IFA) organises matches in Israeli settlements and allows six settlement teams to play in Israeli leagues. The Palestine Football Association (PFA), backed by HRW, has denounced the Israeli policy as a violation of FIFA policy which stipulates that teams can only play on the territory of another FIFA member with that member’s permission.
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