An Israeli lobby group sent a letter to FIFA president Joseph Blatter Tuesday calling for the head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) to be kicked out of soccer's ruling body.
PFA President Jibril Rajoub violates FIFA's rules because of his calls for violence against Israelis, the Israel Law Center believes.
The call comes three days before FIFA's annual congress, at which Blatter hopes to win a fifth term and at which the federation's 209 members are scheduled to vote on a Palestinian motion to suspend Israel from the international football body.
Israel Law Center founder and president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said that if the congress is to discuss allegations against Israel, it should also debate its allegations against Rajoub.
It should examine, "who really commited crimes here, who really encourages violence," she told dpa.
The PFA has demanded that its Israeli counterpart be thrown out of FIFA because of Israel's stringent security restrictions on the movement of Palestinian sports people and equipment.
It also says that football clubs of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank should not be allowed to play in the Israeli league.
The Israel Law Center says Rajoub should be expelled because he is the deputy secretary of the Central Committee of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is Fatah's armed wing and has claimed responsibility for scores of attacks, "causing countless deaths and injuries among Israelis," said Darshan-Leitner.
Rajoub "promoted, supervised and glorified" a number of attacks against Israel, she alleged.
She also quoted him as having said that if the Palestinians had nuclear weapons, they would be using them against the Israeli enemy.
After Israel's 2014 war in Gaza, he openly praised the efforts of armed groups in the Strip, who fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israeli civilian areas, she went on.
His actions and words amounted to violations of FIFA's non-discrimination and non-violence statute, she alleged.
Rajoub could not be reached for comment.
Blatter, 79, travelled to Palestine and Israel earlier in the week but was unable to have the motion dropped after meetings with state and football leaders from both sides.
