{"id":442233,"date":"2026-05-15T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:25:10","slug":"spains-pm-backs-lamine-yamal-after-palestine-flag-controversy-another-reason-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442233\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s PM backs Lamine Yamal after Palestine flag controversy: &#8216;Another reason to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"HJ9BcSbk4kzl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/sport\/article\/h15r00vg1gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lamine Yamal\u2019s flag-waving<\/a> continues to draw widespread attention \u2014 and not only in Israel. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez posted a message of support for the Barcelona star on X on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who see waving a national flag as \u2018incitement to hatred\u2019 have either lost their minds or been blinded by their shame,\u201d S\u00e1nchez wrote. \u201cLamine simply expressed the solidarity with Palestine felt by millions of Spaniards. Another reason to be proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es \u201cincitar al odio\u201d, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.<\/p>\n<p>Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de espa\u00f1oles. Otro motivo m\u00e1s para estar orgullosos de \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pedro S\u00e1nchez (@sanchezcastejon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/2055020939654381903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 14, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Barcelona\u2019s Spanish league title celebrations took a political turn that sparked major controversy, all because of Yamal. During Monday\u2019s championship parade through the city streets, the 18-year-old star was filmed waving a Palestinian flag from atop the team\u2019s open-top bus, a moment that quickly went viral and prompted heated reactions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yamal, widely regarded as one of world soccer\u2019s brightest young talents, was seen waving the flag toward thousands of fans who had gathered to celebrate Barcelona\u2019s title-clinching campaign, secured after a 2-0 victory over Real Madrid. Videos from the event spread rapidly across social media, with many fans praising the player for taking a stand, while others condemned the act as disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal\u2019s flag-waving continues to draw widespread attention \u2014 and not only in Israel. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-442233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}