For organizations such as FIFA that leftists run, jihad flags such as that of the “Palestinians” are fine. But flags that opponents of a jihadist regime wave? No good. As always, what the left loves is considered to be within the bounds of acceptable behavior, and what it hates is not.
“FIFA’s Iran flag ban is an insult to America — and gift to the mullahs,” by Lisa Daftari, New York Post, May 19, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
FIFA is poised to prohibit the “Lion and Sun” flag — the historic pre-1979 flag of Iran — from World Cup stadiums in the US this summer, after the Islamic Republic’s football federation issued a list of 10 demands as the price of its team’s participation.
One of those demands, from federation chief Mehdi Taj, was that “no flag other than the Islamic Republic’s flag” be permitted in stadiums where Iran plays.
FIFA’s answer wasn’t to send the regime packing. It was to point to its stadium code banning “political or discriminatory materials” — a rule that, conveniently applied, gives the mullahs exactly what they asked for.
Let me translate. The world’s most prominent sporting body is preparing to enforce, on American soil, the censorship preferences of one of the world’s worst regimes.
A flag flown by Iranian Americans, by dissidents, by the women and men inside Iran tearing down the regime’s banners and raising the Lion and Sun in their place — that flag, in FIFA’s telling, is too “political” to be seen at a soccer match.
The flag of the theocracy that hangs its own citizens? That one is fine.
So is the Palestinian flag, by the way.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Soccer is a worthless sport. Too bad it’s making inroads into this country
Dov Berrol says
The flag of the Palestinianist movement is yet another fiction in the whole fictional narrative the Arabs created to destroy Israel. The flag was actually first used in the 1920’s to represent the Kingdom of Hejaz on the west side of the Arabian Peninsula. It was used to represent “Arab Nationalism” in the revolt against the Ottoman Empire. So while the Arabs lie to the world that this is the flag of Palestine, they actually see it as a symbol of the Arab Nation fighting the Judeo-Christian world.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It was actually the flag of Jordan before they added that white star on the red Chevron to make it a tad different 🇯🇴. There is absolutely no reason that King Abdullah can’t rule the Palis, once they are all sent to Jordan. How much worse could he possibly be than Mahmoud Abbas or whoever now runs Hamas?
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
FIFA : You know where you can shove your Palestine: https://youtu.be/EYAmchSfjAA
Edward Brennan says
The Irish soccer scene is in the throes of Jew hate at the moment, where protests are continuing against a match to be played against Israel, and where every Gobshite for Gaza, tries to outdo the one before with their invective and hate for “evil” Israel, cos y’no, the ‘falsetinians’ and human rights and civil rights and humanity and the rights of the weak and the “nakba”.
Yet Ireland has just played a fuckin “friendly” with,,, Qatar.
And not a whisper about this ‘real’ terrorist state, which supports those who hate us and who wish to murder us all.
I’m Irish, but I think for myself.
Am Yisrael Chai.