[The New Arab]: How Palestine's push to ban Israel from football stalled amid politics, war and global pressure

Palestine's push to ban Israel from football has intensified after a FIFA report found anti-discrimination breaches, exposing the limits of accountability

Up until 2015, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) and its national team had been an afterthought both on and off the pitch.

Palestine was officially recognised by FIFA in 1998, but after some promising early success, the team went into a tailspin.

Jibril Rajoub took over the PFA in 2008, and despite increased funding, success proved hard to come by.

Those in charge seemed genuinely disinterested and outright hostile to the footballing apparatus.

Then, on 30 May 2014, Palestine qualified for its first-ever Asian Cup, and a media frenzy ensued.

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