British schoolchildren face punishment for wearing Palestine flags and keffiyeh s
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Can a Palestinian Flag be a Call to Arms ?
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LONDON: A headteacher at a school in the UK has apologized after he called the Palestinian flag threatening and a possible “call to arms.”
Pro-Palestine activists gathered at Allerton Grange School in the city of Leeds to protest on Monday after the head, Mike Roper, made the comments in a livestreamed assembly, a video of which was later shared online.
Roper made the comments after pupils complained that posters and Palestinian flags they were wearing were confiscated by teachers last week.
In an effort to explain the school’s policy, he told pupils: “By using a symbol such as the Palestinian flag … some people see that flag and they feel threatened, they feel unsafe and they worry because for other people that flag is seen as a call to arms and seen as a message of support for anti-Semitism, for being anti-Jewish.”