The Green Brigade has sent out a request to the greater Celtic support to back Palestine at next week’s Champions League tie at home to Atletico Madrid.
While fans attend a Champions League tie that will be beamed around the world hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are being bombed out of their homes after being ordered to move to South Gazza where there are no facilities.
The Green Brigade statement acknowledges that the display may not be popular in some quarters but urges fans to do the right thing which is a principle that Celtic have appealed to at various times in their history.
Fly the flag for Palestine
v Atletico Madrid, 25th October pic.twitter.com/F28zIcWf2K— North Curve Celtic (@NCCeltic) October 18, 2023
Today’s request is bound to cause concern for the Celtic board who recently claimed that the club is not a political organisation despite have arch-unionist Brian Wilson as a director since 2006 with former UK Foreign Secretary John Reid a former Chairman.
In 2016 Celtic were fined by UEFA for the displaying of Palestine flags in a match against Hapoel Be’er Sheva. That incident brought universal publicity with the Green Brigade paying off the UEFA fine and still having over £100,000 left over to donate to charities in Palestine.
The GB should respect Celtic’s view on this and leave the flags at Home.
This is a nightmare scenario going on at the moment in the middle east with atrocities committed by both sides and the GB should mourn the Israeli dead as well as the Palestinian dead, babies, children and other innocents killed and maimed in this terrible series of events are as worthy of our tears irrespective of what nationality they are..
This to me is the GB showing again they only give a toss about themselves and to hell about other supporters views ( do you not realise we will no doubt have Jewish fans) and the Club stance, GB you could have showed some humanity like the St Pauli fans but you don’t have the wisdom to know when to stop your self serving agendas.
You could display and wave your flags outside the ground, on the way to the game or anywhere you wanted but that wouldn’t get YOU the publicity and headlines you crave, a minutes silence as a mark of respect for the dead and maimed of both sides would be far more appropriate and decent. .
The GB should … because YOU say so? Bury it, and bury it deep!
This could work as flags are not illegal ‘yet’ (I think) – The negative side is how will Liel Abada portray it…
He may not bat an eyelid and be as professional as ever – There again he might not –
Celtic supporters are a broad church so my solution is :
1) If your a Celtic supporter that loves Scotland – Bring our national flag – The Saltire…
2) If your a Celtic supporter that loves Ireland – Bring her national flag – The Tricolour…
3) If your a Celtic supporter that loves Palestine – Bring their national flag – (I don’t know the name)…
4) If your a Celtic supporter that just loves football only – Bring The Premier League Champions 2322/23 – We shall not be moved flag…
5) If your not a flag shag then just bring yourself to support CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB…
But please – NO CONTROVERSIAL BANNERS – in fact NO Banners –
Please don’t hurt Celtic !
Celtic IS it’s supporters!
Just bring a Palestine flag – if you want.
UEFA has been ramming the Ukraine flag into every stadium it can,
so things are rather different today then when CFC was fined.
…and then there is the whole hypocrisy of what UEFA deems ‘good flag / bad flag’.
A manifestation of anti-Jewish hatred.
A show of support for Palestinians, is not hatred of anyone John S!
Paranoia, maybe, on your part?
Agreed.
It is actually. There is no Palestine, it is a British concoction, an unfulfilled promise. Even the name Palestine is called after a Jewish sect, The Philistines. The land of Israel goes back thousands of years, it was returned after the Holocaust. The Holocaust continues with anti-Jewish hatred disguised as political concerns about Israel. Slaughter, unfortunately, is successful propaganda.
I have been to the Arab quarter in Jerusalem and was kicked from behind by a 9-year old. The mothers are proud to teach their children to be martyrs.
Waving national flags divides the human race, is very disturbing to those excluded and has no place at a football match.
Calls of “God is great” and “Kill the Jews” is not paranoia.
You think that it is
“Waving National Flags”
that divides the Human Race?
As we have said many times Cltic supporters not paranoid enough
We will be fined again for making a political statement at a uefa game
They are asking for that section to be closed
Condemnations of the Israeli government’s collective punishment of civilians is not a hatred of Jews or antisemitism of any kind.
Please do not conflate the two. I suggest reading content from some different news providers
It isn’t “collective punishment”, it’s defence against a persistent aggressor (a very tame description for Hamas). The flag waving is not a condemnation of Israel, it is a celebration of slaughter, done on day one around the globe after the Rave slaughter.
As for reading something different, so you wave a flag in my face and tell me to look elsewhere ?
Antizionism is not antisemitism, nor is it racist. There were and still are plenty of British and American Zionists who are not Jews. If you know your history, etc
Anti-Zionism is not the issue. Hatred of Jews is the issue. Unfortunately many reasonably comfortable young men in the ‘West’ have been duped by the propaganda that an anti-Zionist cannot hate Jews, when in fact he is the most likely candidate.
As for knowing history, does the 13th SS Mountain Division mean anything to you ? Or the Grand Mufti’s alliance with Hitler and his call for a pogrom ?