JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli soccer team was fined for honoring a former Knesset lawmaker who fled Israel amid accusations of treason and espionage.

The Bnei Sakhnin club was fined Wednesday by the Israel Football Association’s disciplinary court on Wednesday for paying tribute to Azmi Bishara, who was accused of providing information to the terrorist group Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Bishara left Israel in 2007 while under investigation and now lives in Qatar. The club also was levied a suspended fine of about $10,000.

The Oct. 18 tribute also honored an anonymous Qatari donor who gave $2 million to the team, the only Arab club in Israel’s Premiere League.

The team’s stadium is called Doha Stadium, named for the capital of Qatar. It was built with millions of dollars in donations from Qatar.

Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat earlier in the week had threatened to remove the Jerusalem-based squad from the Israeli Premier League, saying in a statement that penalties and fines “are not sufficient measure.”

During the Oct. 18 match against Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sakhnin fans raised a banner reading “Jerusalem is ours” beneath a picture of the Al-Aksa Mosque in the city.