World Rugby has been formally dragged into the blowout over the South African Rugby Union’s decision to “withdraw” an invitation to Tel Aviv Heat to play in the Mzansi Challenge.

New Zealand high court barrister and solicitor Ian Dunwoodie has filed a formal complaint with World Rugby.

The withdrawal of the invitation by SARU came on the same day that the BDS Coalition issued a threatening statement.

The anti-Israel group – a self-proclaimed network of Palestine solidarity organisations and the South African affiliate to the Palestinian BDS National Committee – said “if this apartheid Israeli team [Tel Aviv Heat] comes to play in South Africa, SARU will have blood on its hands.”

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