{"id":23374,"date":"2026-05-14T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:36:11","slug":"israels-defense-minister-condemns-barcelona-soccer-star-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23374\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s defense minister condemns Barcelona soccer star Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/author\/israel-katz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Katz<\/a> condemned FC Barcelona soccer star Lamine Yamal on Thursday after the right midfielder was seen waving a Palestinian flag during the team&#8217;s victory parade in their home city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The parade, attended by thousands of fans, took place on Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-894824\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> won its 29th Spanish league title in a 2-0 win over rivals Real Madrid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lamine Yamal chose to incite against Israel and foment hatred while our soldiers are fighting the terrorist organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-895965\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas<\/a>, an organization that massacred, raped, burned, and murdered Jewish children, women, and elderly on October 7,&#8221; Katz wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Whoever supports this type of message should ask themselves: Does he consider this humanitarian? Is this moral? &#8221; he asked. &#8220;As the Minister of Defense of the State of Israel, I will not remain silent in the face of incitement against Israel and against the Jewish people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;I expect a great and respected club like @FCBarcelona to distance itself from these statements and make it unequivocally clear that there is no place for incitement or for support of terrorism,&#8221; Katz concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-894985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coach<\/a>, Hansi Flick, said at a press conference on Tuesday, &#8220;These are things that I don&#8217;t normally like. I have talked to him about it and told him that if he wants to do it, it&#8217;s his decision; he&#8217;s 18 years old. We are dedicated to playing football, and we have to take into account what people expect from us.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYQGxetFL6m\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Yamal, at 18 years old, was a major asset to Barcelona&#8217;s success this season, scoring 16 goals in 28 matches.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz condemned FC Barcelona soccer star Lamine Yamal on Thursday after the right midfielder was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,223,12386,11713],"class_list":{"0":"post-23374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-fc-barcelona","10":"tag-israel-katz","11":"tag-palestinian-flag"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}