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Red Card Israeli Racism (RCIR) launched a blistering attack on Fifa’s Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine after its chair Tokyo Sexwale missed another report deadline.
Sexwale was appointed head of the group at the start of the year, tasked by Fifa’s council to end Israel’s football clubs located in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
However, in a statement released to the Star, RCIR said that not only has Sexwale not produced the report but he is yet to meet with the two associations’ representatives and is unlikely to do so before late March.
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
ROGER McKENZIE explains why he can’t support this year’s World Cup
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
RAMZY BAROUD highlights a new report by special rapporteur Francesca Albanese that unflinchingly names and shames the companies that have enabled Israel’s bloody massacre in Gaza