Fly the flag for Palestine- Green Brigade sends out call for Champions League tie
Britain Football Soccer - Celtic v Hapoel Be?er-Sheva - UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off First Leg - Celtic Park - 17/8/16 Celtic fans hold up Palestine flags Action Images via Reuters / Russell Cheyne Livepic EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
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.