Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
14 June
PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID
On this day in 2004, Sean Gallagher was sentenced to 200 hours' community service and a three-year football match ban. He ran on to the pitch at Ibrox during a Rangers vs Maccabi Haifa match the previous November draped in a Palestinian flag and wearing a Pope T-shirt. He shouted "Tiocfaidh ár lá", meaning "Our Day Will Come" at Rangers fans. He was caught by police as he tried to handcuff himself to a goalpost. Gallagher admitted a sectarian breach of the peace when he appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
المسيحيون الفلسطينيون متحدون ضد نظام الابارثايد
يونيو 14
Palestinian Archbishop Atallah Hanna, while visiting Scotland as a guest of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, denounced Israel's violation of human rights and informed Scottish audiences that “There has never been one day's fighting between Palestinian Muslims and Christians”.
This foolish young man promoted sectarianism in Scotland and waved a Palestinian flag, blissfully unaware that every Christian sect in Palestine is united against Israeli Apartheid and for BDS. The Palestinian Boycott National Committee "warmly welcomes a historic open letter by the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine urging the World Council of Churches to recognize Israel as an apartheid state,” support the nonviolent, Palestinian-led global BDS movement, help intensify BDS campaigns and actively refuse Christian complicity in ongoing Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.