• The Rangers-Maccabi Haifa match was disrupted by a fan draped in a Palestinian flag. Picture: SNS
CELTIC fans are being asked to wave Palestinian flags during a football match against Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv in protest at the invasion of Gaza last year.
The controversial call by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) came in advance of the Europa League match next Wednesday, which will be seen by millions of football fans.
The gesture is aimed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, who is travelling from London to attend the game.
(The Scotsman via the Palestinian Pundit)
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The "hic" here though, is:
"The move might also cause division within the club itself – the Celtic chairman and former home secretary John Reid was an early member of Labour Friends of Israel, and his wife, Carine Adler, is Jewish."
In my opinion this is not going to be as easy as it looks.
"Former Lord Provost of Glasgow and Celtic fan Alex Mosson said he backed the STUC plans and vowed to wear a Palestinian flag around his shoulders next Wednesday night."
ReplyDeleteI do not believe in this sort of thing for sports. Leave them alone.
ReplyDeleteKeep politics out of sport, the old right wing line. The English cricket and rugby administrators used to use this line to justify their support for the South African apartheid régime.
ReplyDeleteRangers supporters tend to be pro-Israel (long story). This bloke, wearing a t-shirt with a picture of the Pope on it, was a Celtic supporter. I reckon he's lucky to be alive.
According to my son there are always some Palestinian flags, Basque flags too, as well as the traditional Irish Tricolour on display at Celtic home games. So John Reid could have his work cut out imposing a ban.
ReplyDeletemaybe you dont fully understand many scots are right behind Israel? after 6000 katusha rockets landing in my back garden im surprised they waiting as long to give those religous braindead Islamic wankers good spanking! and hiding behind women is children is justice enough to blow the fuckers up
ReplyDelete<span>after 6000 katusha rockets landing in my back garde</span>
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Why oh why did you have to steal that house in the first place, DAVID?
<span><span>after 6000 katusha rockets landing in my back garde</span>n
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Maybe you shouldn't have stolen that house in the first place, DAVID?</span>
<span><span><span>after 6000 katusha rockets landing in my back garde</span>n
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Maybe you shouldn't have stolen that house in the first place, DAVID.</span></span>
Why did you leave Russia David? I heard Russia is not such a bad place after all David!
ReplyDelete" ... many scots are right behind Israel ..."
ReplyDeleteMANY? Let's not get carried away here. Some extremists who identify with a nation that is universally reviled for its treatment of a powerless people. The kind of people wo would cut a young lad's throat because he was wearing a Celtic shirt.
<span>" ... many scots are right behind Israel ..."
ReplyDeleteMANY? Let's not get carried away here. Some extremists who identify with a nation that uses religion to justify murder. The kind of people who would cut a young lad's throat because he was wearing the the other team's shirt.</span>
for all the idiots who are saying keep politics out of football, why was there no calls for the poppy to be kept off the celtic jersey last year and this year in november? you cant say one form of politics is acceptable and not the other, i am just about to leave to go to this match and i will be flying my palestine flag high and proudly.
ReplyDeleteThe poppy is a tradition of Remembrance Day and its sole purpose is to remember all of the soldiers who fought in wars. It is not political.
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