Arab Liberation Flag on Shandon Mill

KwackerJack

Can someone please explain why there is an Arab Liberation flag ( Palestine ) on top of the Shandon Mills?

Bygumbo

KwackerJack wrote: »

Can someone please explain why there is an Arab Liberation flag ( Palestine ) on top of the Shandon Mills?

Because yeah!

Ipso

Attention seeking, or it may have to do with liberating women from some of the cave man ideas.

jamesbere

It's to celebrate Dublin winning the all Ireland

riffmongous

It's no reason to murder anyone anyway OP

Junkyard Tom

False flag. Someone wants the Israelis to seize Shandon Mills, evict anyone living there, and turn it over to Israeli colonists.

deco nate

Bloody right wingers.... Wot?

The Backwards Man

It wouldn't be there if the liberal snowflake sheeple weren't leading us down the path to annihilation.

Or something?

deco nate

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It wouldn't be there if the liberal snowflake sheeple weren't leading us down the path to annihilation.

Or something?

Racist!

the_syco

Probably in relation to what's his face getting acquitted in Egypt?

donegaLroad

The Palestinian flag has been flying here in Donegal for the last 20 years.

tomwaterford

donegaLroad wrote: »

The Palestinian flag has been flying here in Donegal for the last 20 years.

Must be fair tattered by now?

Donal55

Bob Dylan's 'Isis'.

Your Face

Because an idiot put it there.

seamus

Always been a strong affiliation between the Irish Nationalists and Palestinians.

There are a lot of parallels in their back stories; displaced by foreign settlers, treated like subhumans because of their religion/ethnicity by a genocidal foreign occupying power, using force to try and repel the occupation. And so forth.

So you can see how IRA supporters feel a level of kinship with the Palestinians. It's not rare at all to see the flag flown where you have high concentrations of 'RA heads.

donegaLroad

Being an Irish Nationalist does not mean that you are a 'RA head', neither does showing solidarity for the oppressed people of Palestine.

KwackerJack

Well my opinion is I don't like it.  Iv'e nothing against them as a people but flying a flag pisses me off.  

I visit the UK very often but I don;t stink an Irish flag on off the Balcony in my hotel. 


I really think we are so PC these days that we forget that we are Irish, OK we at one stage were oppressed but that does not mean that we allow other nations to walk in and start throwing flags up everywhere. Stick up an Irish flag with Michael Collins picture or some IRA symbol on it and see how quick it's taken down by every Garda and councillor in the country, yet a foreign flag representing the same line of thought is allowed to be flown.

Both are symbolising freedom / fighting oppression yet we all know which one is allowed to fly........

corner of hells

seamus wrote: »

Always been a strong affiliation between the Irish Nationalists and Palestinians.

There are a lot of parallels in their back stories; displaced by foreign settlers, treated like subhumans because of their religion/ethnicity by a genocidal foreign occupying power, using force to try and repel the occupation. And so forth.

So you can see how IRA supporters feel a level of kinship with the Palestinians. It's not rare at all to see the flag flown where you have high concentrations of 'RA heads.

I'm sure there's a mill in Jerusalem with a tricolour flying of it this morning.

Widdershins

Well that's a hilarious string of comments,I particularly like the connection made between Palestinians and fighting oppression. You need to inform yourselves about how people are treated there. Especially women. It gets more extreme and oppressive all the time. Whatever you might say about Israel, I would not be blinded to these problems and I would not be happy about a flag symbolising a backward, oppressive place like Palestine. And while I understand people here sympathising with other ordinary people there,I'm frankly not impressed by people showing solidarity with what is essentially an islamic state.

topper75

Some people are interested in global politics and find that Palestinian cause thing sexy. They feel good about themselves, believing they are helping the oppressed.
One night spent under a Palestinian rocket attack would lead to a quick 180 turn on that though.
I've seen this flown in other parts of Ireland by a crank element. They just have an anti-establishment mentality that doesn't pay any regard to reason. You may also see a Cuban flag trying to make the same 'statement'.
Laugh and move on I say.

Atoms for Peace

The first chief rabbi of Israel was Irish and a strong supporter of SF. It wasn't until the cold war and the rise of left wing Arab nationalism that connections occurred.
Today Arab nationalism is dead, replaced by fascist sectarian groups such as hamas.

El Weirdo

KwackerJack wrote: »

...Stick up an Irish flag with Michael Collins picture or some IRA symbol on it and see how quick it's taken down by every Garda and councillor in the country...

I would almost guarantee that a tricolour with a picture of Michael Collins on it would not be taken down by the Guards. What authority would they have to do so?

RasTa

KwackerJack wrote: »

Well my opinion is I don't like it.  Iv'e nothing against them as a people but flying a flag pisses me off.  

I visit the UK very often but I don;t stink an Irish flag on off the Balcony in my hotel. 


I really think we are so PC these days that we forget that we are Irish, OK we at one stage were oppressed but that does not mean that we allow other nations to walk in and start throwing flags up everywhere. Stick up an Irish flag with Michael Collins picture or some IRA symbol on it and see how quick it's taken down by every Garda and councillor in the country, yet a foreign flag representing the same line of thought is allowed to be flown.

Both are symbolising freedom / fighting oppression yet we all know which one is allowed to fly........

I don't think that flag was put up by a Palestinian, could be wrong.

When we lived in Vancouver we had the Irish flag out and a California state flag too as someone from there was in the house. Nobody complained.

darkdubh

KwackerJack wrote: »

Can someone please explain why there is an Arab Liberation flag ( Palestine ) on top of the Shandon Mills?

It's not a mill. And there's no flag on it.

donegaLroad

El Weirdo wrote: »

I would almost guarantee that a tricolour with a picture of Michael Collins on it would not be taken down by the Guards. What authority would they have to do so?

Ironically, the gardai should be the last people to take down such s flag. Since partition, the gardai were by default, pro treaty.. and the Irish army were anti treaty.

As for the flag issue, I was only assuming that everyone knew that the Palestinian flag is flown in republican areas of the North, and the Israeli flag is flown in unionist areas.

KwackerJack

El Weirdo wrote: »

I would almost guarantee that a tricolour with a picture of Michael Collins on it would not be taken down by the Guards. What authority would they have to do so?

They would be advised by the council or some other authority to take it down in case it offends some British people or offends anyone who thinks it symbolises terrorism.............

This is a government one is forcing a mother travel overseas to save her daughter's life yet fighting to bring a terrorist supporter back to Ireland

We can't be seen as racist or one sided but by letting this flag fly and letting you know who back in we are doing just that

**In relation to bringing that terrorist home it was used as an example, please stay on topic**

degsie

Flegs, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvxqGnVO2w

seamus

donegaLroad wrote: »

Being an Irish Nationalist does not mean that you are a 'RA head', neither does showing solidarity for the oppressed people of Palestine.

Nobody said either of those things.

Harry Palmr

I always liked Shandon area in Cork - got a very interesting mix of downbeat streets, alleys and buildings.

Hande hoche!

Is the butter museum okay?

El Weirdo

KwackerJack wrote: »

They would be advised by the council or some other authority to take it down in case it offends some British people or offends anyone who thinks it symbolises terrorism.............

Bollocks.

KwackerJack

El Weirdo wrote: »

Bollocks.

If I openly said I was a member if the IRA I would be arrested and investigated.

However if i said I was a member of any group relating to the Arab Liberation flag I wouldn't be looked at.

Only recently a man was charged with murder and membership of the IRA yet we knowingly have ISIS members being watched by Gardai and the Army Ranger Wing.......I don't see them being arrested for being apart of a terrorist organisation

riffmongous

topper75 wrote: »

Some people are interested in global politics and find that Palestinian cause thing sexy. They feel good about themselves, believing they are helping the oppressed.
One night spent under a Palestinian rocket attack would lead to a quick 180 turn on that though.
I've seen this flown in other parts of Ireland by a crank element. They just have an anti-establishment mentality that doesn't pay any regard to reason. You may also see a Cuban flag trying to make the same 'statement'.
Laugh and move on I say.

God forbid you'd find yourself under an Israeli missile attack or bulldozer,, you wouldn't have a chance to reconsider your views.

The rest is just nonsense

El Weirdo

KwackerJack wrote: »

If I openly said I was a member if the IRA I would be arrested and investigated.

This has absolutely nothing to do with a tricolour with a picture of Michael Collins on it.