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‘Palestinian flag cannot be deemed unfit to display’
Open letter to Uefa asks why Scottish clubs have been fined for displaying flag

Red Card Israeli Racism’s Kenny Fryde has written an open letter to Uefa after three football clubs were fined for displaying the Palestinian flags during European games over the summer.

Dundalk, Celtic and St Johnstone have all been handed fines for breaching Uefa’s disciplinary regulations by raising the flag, which “transmitted a message that is not deemed fit for a sports event.”

The letter says: “This seems to us to be an absurd charge and a gross abuse of the disciplinary process. There is no context within which the Palestinian flag can be said to promote disorder and to be unfit for display.

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