{"id":263281,"date":"2016-08-23T04:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/celtic-f-c-fans-pledge-to-match-the-fine-for-palestine\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T04:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T04:30:57","slug":"celtic-f-c-fans-pledge-to-match-the-fine-for-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/celtic-f-c-fans-pledge-to-match-the-fine-for-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic F.C. Fans Pledge to \u2018Match the Fine for Palestine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-27583\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A major fine by the UEFA expected to be levied against Scottish football powerhouse Celtic F.C., after a group of fans publicly displayed Palestinian flags during a playoff match against Hapoel Be\u2019er Sheva.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic fans, however, aren\u2019t backing down, and have insisted that they will \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/matchfinepalestine\">match the fine for Palestine,<\/a>\u201d raising nearly $100,000, and promising to donate the money to Palestinian charities.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic fans flew thousands of the flags at last week\u2019s match in Glasgow\u2019s Celtic Park as a \u201cshow of solidarity\u201d with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, as they played the first leg of a series against the team from southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the first time Celtic showed interest in the cause of Palestinian independence, however, as fans have in the past flown Palestinian flags at certain games, including those not involving an Israeli team. In 2014 the UEFA fined Celtic some $20,000 for allowing fans to display an \u201cillicit banner\u201d i.e. the Palestinian flag, during a game against an Icelandic team. That incident was during the 2014 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of the playoff is Tuesday in Israel. Israeli police have warned they have \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/israeli-cops-warn-celtic-fans-8674111\">zero tolerance<\/a>\u201d for Scottish fans with Palestinian flags, and have vowed to jail anyone who attempts to display such a flag during the match. Celtic is leading 5-2 after dominating the home leg of the playoff.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/piZrEOMhKvU\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major fine by the UEFA expected to be levied against Scottish football powerhouse Celtic F.C., after a group of fans publicly displayed Palestinian flags during a playoff match against Hapoel Be\u2019er Sheva. Celtic fans, however, aren\u2019t backing down, and have insisted that they will \u201cmatch the fine for Palestine,\u201d raising nearly $100,000, and promising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}