“Consequently, Mr Rajoub will not be able to attend football matches or competitions in any official capacity, which includes, among others, participating in media activities at stadiums or in their vicinity on match days.”
A key ally of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mr Rajoub is currently head of the Central Committee of Fatah, the Palestinian political party which controls the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.
He is also head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee. In 2012, he thanked the then-chief of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, for his decision to forgo a moment of silence at the London Olympics to commemorate the Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich 1972 olympics. He wrote that to allow the commemoration would have been “racism”.
