Scottish club fans Call To Protest ‘Rogue, Apartheid’ Israel With Palestinian Flags

Scottish club Celtic fans are waiting to greet the Israeli team and its fans at Celtic Park stadium for next Wednesday’s match with Palestinian flags.

A Facebook page entitled “Fly the flag for Palestine, for Celtic, for Justice,” has already attracted 837 users. The page was set up by a group calling themselves Celtic Fans for Palestine.

The group said that the UEFA European soccer governing body should ban Israeli teams from participating in the competition “due to the system of apartheid laws and practices including religious- and ethnic-based colonization, military occupation, and segregation of what remains of Palestinian land and over 90 laws which discriminate against indigenous Palestinians who make up 20 percent of the population of current-day Israel.”

They said they will hand out Palestinian flags at the entrance to Celtic Way. The Celtic group affiliates itself with the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which it praises as being “inspiring and unstoppable.”

It called on Celtic fans to exercise their “democratic rights to display our opposition to Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, and countless massacres of the Palestinian people.”