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Jewish sports organization Maccabi Germany has called on the ruling football body FIFA to dismiss a Palestine association (PFA) motion seeking sanctions against Israel at its congress later this week. “The current motion by the PFA is part of a globally observed attempt to isolate Israel and, in our view, should be decisively rejected,” Maccabi President Alon Meyer told dpa. “We hope that the FIFA Congress will once again send a clear signal against such endeavours.” The PFA is calling for “appropriate sanctions to be taken against Israeli teams with immediate effect” at Friday’s congress in B…

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