FIFA once again bowed down to Israel’s bullying yesterday by removing the issue of Israeli football clubs based in illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory from today’s agenda at congress.

Fifa claimed that “at this stage it is premature for the Fifa congress to take any decision” due to a report submitted by Tokyo Sexwale, the chair of the Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine.

However, Hind Awwad, spokesperson for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, slammed the decision by football’s world governing body, saying they are “shamefully bending to Israeli bullying.”