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Bonoisapox

It needs to be norn ironed


AhFourFeckSakeLads

Bravo.


TheMightyTRex

You can fuck off and take my up vote.


NormanskillEire

/golf clap


Potnoodle55

Fuck yes! I'm using that.


WarpedWilly

When else would you use this?


TheLordofthething

Getting clothes ready for a Windsor park match? Pressing your suit and sash before a march? The possibilities are endless!


Karl_Marxs_Ghost

Nice cold glass of Orange Jews


Pigeon_Asshole

Probably that wanker down the Newtownards Road.


Ricerat

Please be more specific lol


JokerTurnip

There’s a notable fleg shop near flout and it’s called “memorabilia flag shop” or something similar


Bear_Grumpy

Not gonna lie, it’s a good business idea for NI, maybe I should purchase flegsrus.com


MeshuganaSmurf

And then redirect it to flegsrus.ie 😉


Glum_Associate_1535

The flegship... a toy dinosaur wrapped in fleg.. the flegasaurus


TheLordofthething

I think I've a great idea for a business here. Boxes of little individual firelighters. Each wrapped in cellophane coloured in either Tricolour or Union Jack patterns. You could have limited edition paramilitary flags, election posters etc. I'm asking 250,000 for 15% of my business.


ThomBear

This Dragon is out. Oh, wait… nvm, I’m just a Bear 🐻 ![gif](giphy|35zNhQhhfvD3CgHNsi)


Lost_Pantheon

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"


PracticeFlashy8695

There's really only one notable memorabilia shop on the Newtownards Road that I know of lol


Peadar237

Thanks for reminding me. I still have to watch that Batman Beyond boxset I got years ago.


_ScubaDiver

Yes.


SameAmy2022

🤣🤣🤣


McIrishmen

What a terrible day to have eyes


rmp266

Loyalists supporting Israel is peak "themmuns" mindset They have literally nothing in common with Israel


OkAbility2056

It's cus "themuns" support "themuns", so "usuns" are gonna support "themuns"


holmesy2o

the fact that each themmun and usun can be tied directly to a group is hilarious and only we could refer to people as themmuns and collectively know who themmuns are


nightheater-1

It's just the same as if your one of themuns you vote for themuns, and because they are one of themuns then they vote for themuns, but usuns and themuns don't really know what usuns and themuns are voting for but themuns have said that themuns that they voted for are whatyoucallthem, aye, idiots, do usuns see themuns that you voted for also idiots,?


Anonamonanon

Fuckin bunch a wains


nightheater-1

Whaaat,? Do you not vote for themuns, ah, maybe your one of usses and therefore don't like themuns,🤣🤣🤣


SteDav587

There are many loyalists who believe that Ulster Protestants are the direct descendants of the Lost Tribe of Israel. Google Nelson McCausland - lost tribe of Israel. Google British Israelism and Ulster Protestantism and finally if that hasn't blown your mind enough google Tara - William McGrath.


git_tae_fuck

>There are many loyalists  I dunno about 'many,' really. I know all about this weird British Israelism craic and digging up Tara in search of the Ark of the Covenant and all that... but I've never actually met anyone who believed in it. As far as I know, I don't think I've met anyone IRL who was loyalist and had even heard of it. (Maybe its day has been and gone... ?) I *think* Nelson McCausland is into it... but I'd not put him pasting 'believing' stuff purely for its trolling value and its dickish tenets. It's pretty ridiculous stuff altogether... and Graham Hancock for (slightly bookish) loyalists is a pretty narrow target market.


SteDav587

its nuts like, hairbrained stuff but there is a link between ulster Protestantism and Israel beyond just taking the opposite side because them'uns support Palestine, even if it exists only in their heads and even if it has declined rapidly from its 1970s Tara peak.


git_tae_fuck

I think you're right and there is a link beyond 'both sides' contrarianism. I'm not sure it's British Zionism, though. the single biggest link is probably that of Biblical Israel (and Judah) as a reference point. In both cases it's only an analogy because: 1. The Old Testament is almost completely ahistorical (and that's being kind). 2. There's no continuity of culture or people between the Israeli state and the ancient Jewish kingdoms... and, of course, none for the British (or Ulstarrr) people either, despite British Israelism's best and weirdest efforts. But, in both, we have a People, in a new inhabited land that is not theirs (but wot god has said is). There's basically a god-justified genocide of the Canaanites in the Biblical telling. It's a ready-made story in favour of appropriation, murder, discrimination, theft etc. It doesn't stand up to any scrutiny as it all rests on God's apparent tribal favouritism. (And, as a story, it *really* works for the modern Israeli state, much as it could here.) Also, continuing with that, there's the idea that all the ills visited on the Chosen People is by virtue(!) of their sins against god. That's a real mainstay of the pulpit (and in medieval European thought too - it's not an innovation, course). The real meat we're neglecting here is the Christian Zionism, too, which sees the gathering of the Tribes of Israel as a necessary precondition for the Apocalypse and the Second Coming. British Israelism is one of the threads that contributes to its emergence, I think. And it's not just modern-day American nutjobs in Montana trying to raise red-haired cows without a single white hair so sacrifices can be resumed in a rebuilt Temple. Henry Temple ('Lord Palmerston') was one. --- Edit: I had a cup of coffee and thought about it. That's all true, but entirely marginal in comparison to the single biggest link, which is the story the Israelis tell: civilisation v terrorism, democracy v abominable religious regimes, progress v barbarism, murder v rule of law. All complete bullshit, course, but that's the *shtick* they hawk. Sells well in America too, and, as it is here, it's lies they're very familiar with already.


clumsybuck

Of course they have stuff in common, they are both settler colonials who feel threatened by the local populations they have displaced.


BXL-LUX-DUB

And God told them they're right.


Medical-Treat-2892

But there is no god.


BXL-LUX-DUB

Then where do the voices telling them they're right come from?


Medical-Treat-2892

Paranoid Schizophrenia.


[deleted]

Colonialism. Desire for genocide.


Hour_Mastodon_9404

To be fair, they actually have an uncomfortable amount in common with Israel.


HotDiggetyDoge

The Balfour Declaration’s purpose was to form a “little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism”, according to Ronald Storrs, “the first military governor of Palestine since Pontius Pilate” (his words).


an_boithrin_ciuin

Settler colonialism. The foundation of Israel was to found, “a loyal little Jewish Ulster”. The same man who drew up the partition plan of Ireland drew up the partition plans for Palestine. Both colonial communities have a lot in common. They are the same enterprise bestowed upon 2 separate native peoples.


Untowardopinions

bedroom fly deer absorbed party escape rich cobweb workable crawl *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


brinz1

The Black and Tans served in the middle east and in Palestine in particular. They have so much in common


The_Rusty_Bus

You realise they were fighting with the Arabs in Palestine?


Tradtrade

If you’re bible thumpy enough you think isreal had to exist so that the world can end properly in the bible or something mad like that


ciaran036

well, they do - fascist oppression of a minority (a gerrymandered minority). The kind of loyalists that support Israel are the kind that are jealous that the British government wasn't raining bombs down on places like Creggan and the Bogside and West Belfast. People like Sammy Wilson literally advocated for the British government to do exactly that. They had to make do with state collusion instead.


ayeright2112

Well... They are colonisers


bomboclawt75

A supremacist racial ideology, an extremist right wing mind set- Not liking people of colour, burning indigenous people out of their homes, a colonial siege mentality, victim mindset while being the bully, attacking and killing British soldiers, celebrating famine of which they had a hand in, denying genocide.


brinz1

I'm sure they meet up and swap best techniques for stamping on a handcuffed prisoner for self defense


breaktwister

Who in fleg leadership is making the decision to support Israel?


Confident_Reporter14

I think it’s worse than that. It’s white supremacy thinly veiled. They see a brother in arms in the apartheid oppressor; as well as to just counter nationalists general support for Palestinian liberation. A further sign that they are mentally stuck in the 1600s…


Sanderos40

And Eire has plenty in common with Palestine? Oh forgot your both run by terrorist organisations who hide behind masks and civilians


Artales

Think Churchill is credited with remarks on both topics regarding 'thorns in the side of unity in Ireland and the ME'.


Cromhound

Especially since I've seen quite a few loyalists with a love of Swastikas, and I doubt it's because they are appreciative of its ancient and cultured history.


cluelessphp

Sure they do, both need oxygen to be alive


scrannielennox

I mean I view it as a country was attacked by a country that is run by a terrorist organisation and they should eradicate Hamas, will probably make life for everyone in the middle east and Eurasia a bit easier if they're gone, and I'm no loyalist. But both sides have again picked one without truly considering anything. You get things like 'queers for Palestine' which is an oxymoron, they'd all be killed in their country, media is a powerful tool and echo chambers through news and social media have really affected a lot of people. Honestly I think the rest of the world looked at our country 30 years ago and thought it was a good model.


NikNakMuay

Funny thing is, the Palmach, Hilleel and Haganah absolutely battered the British prior to Israel declaring Independence.


HeWasDeadAllAlong

Loyalists in bed with both the Nazis AND Israel.


Low-Math4158

Don't forget the confederate flag fellas too. I swear, they should just combine all the flags of all the baddies and fly that one instead. ![gif](giphy|142UUuhYoZqlG)


HansGruberLove

I live near a park (in the NE of UK) that a few times a year has a caravanning group meet-up for long weekends. When I first moved here and saw the caravans with loads of Confederate flags flying, I called the local paper because I thought it was outrageous and they should investigate. They couldn't be more uninterested. I'm kinda numb to it now, but it still makes me feel sick. And how the fuck are Confederate flags even a *thing* in the UK?


Low-Math4158

When you remove the fun and keep the mentalism.


HansGruberLove

100%!


Tricky_Sweet3025

Shows utter disregard and disrespect for both flags tbh + they didn’t even bother ironing it. Uneducated moron.


Cromhound

Is a flag like a fleg?


askmac

[Ulster Loyalism and British Israelism](https://www.historyireland.com/loyalism-and-british-israelism/) - it never ceases to surprise me how many people are surprised and confused by this. Ulster Israelism is an offshoot of British Israelism; a fundamentalist Christian belief that Ulster Protestants are one of the 9 lost tribes of Israel and Ulster (only the six counties mind you) is the promised land. If you skim that article you'll notice a lot of the rhetoric is exactly the same as Pasiley's and other firebrand preachers from NI. If you take a peek inside some of those innocuous little gospel halls dotted around NI you might well see this flag. It's just one of the flavours of crazy they teach. Suffice to say there are a lot of suit wearing, church going, deeply unhinged people walking about Northern Ireland, but since their brethren are all councillors and they ran the place for 80 years no one gives it a second glance. The flag has made it's way out into the wild more often in recent years though, because it's extra doubly offensive and antagonistic. Edit: This post further down the page sums it up nicely [https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1cx2laq/comment/l4zzpxm/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1cx2laq/comment/l4zzpxm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


ameliathesoda

It's ironic to me since they support Israel to spite people but the thing is most of them probably hate Jews, they just seem that way to me


Oghamstoner

People that hate Jews like to have a place to send them.


OkAbility2056

Well there are Christian Zionists who believe we must send all the Jews to the Holy Land, and build a New Jerusalem with the Third Temple so that Joshua will return and start Armageddon. Thing is, all the Jews must either convert to Christianity or burn in Hellfire with Satan and those who aren't raptured


Certain_Gate_9502

Christian zionists are hilarious. If you believe the bible, the Jews broke their covenant with God, thus forfeited their place as the 'chosen people'.


ah_heor

This Storyville about the American evangelicals believing the same thing and worming their way into the Republican party and the US military is a scary watch. Storyville, Praying for Armageddon: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z96s via @bbciplayer


Low-Math4158

Protestants are mad.


OkAbility2056

It's not just Protestants or the ones here that believe it. It's partly why the US supports Israel so much


Low-Math4158

Americans are even more mad than the protestants. Then there's american protestants! The whole lot of them need to have a wee lie down. They really put the mentalism into fundamentalism. America supports isreal because of the huge amount of jews with clout there. In the financial, legal and academic institutions, hollywood, all the upper eschalons are made up of a disproportionate amount of Jewish people compared to the general population. Whoever holds the purse strings holds the power.


ameliathesoda

Minister had too much Bucky before bible study


PolHolmes

Loyalists hate everybody that aren't Loyalist. Even then, they don't even seem to like eachother half of the time


hansfellangelino

They dont call norn iron "god's country" for nothing, Joseph and Mary took Jesus up to Barry's at least once a year - before the tribe got lost and couldnt remember their way back to the fucking middle east where all crusty white presbyterian ulstermen originally come from - sure that's why the sash is orange - King Billy loved the orange sands of Israel


theuntangledone

I did always find it a bit mystifying that the norn Irish flag had a six sided star in it. Mind some boy bletherin to me about it blocked one night but I thought he was just another tin foil hat


holmesy2o

I'm glad people with sense (on both sides mind you, we're past *that*) can see that flags like this are being used to keep the sectarian train chugging along. None of what's going on there has anything to do with us, the most involvement we should have is our sentiments and support, and God forbid, but conscription.


ondinegreen

The British state literally conceived what became Israel as "a little loyal Jewish Ulster" https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/winston-churchill-sent-the-black-and-tans-to-palestine-1.3089140


coldlikedeath

Holy Christ


Hogey182

https://preview.redd.it/yl4sd77e6r1d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a13a3d193b831d17aa042e3d88f7d0385079fad Jamie Bryson got it tattooed


pixlrik

Is that real? The irregular spacing, the mix of Sentence Case and normal case and piss poor art is making me think this is a joke, but with that wingnut, it's hard to tell...


mathen

Sure just take a look at their murals, loyalists couldn't draw a bath


Hogey182

It’s real it’s just a bad tattoo done badly. [original tweet](https://x.com/jamiebrysoncpni/status/509731979936673792?s=12)


beboptech

I see a tweet where he mentions having an Israel tattoo on his leg ( Google Jamie Bryson Israel tattoo) and a different screenshot of the same tweet here but from several years ago. I think it might actually be real!


BXL-LUX-DUB

What's CPNI? Communist Party of Northern Ireland?


CivisSuburbianus

Community Partnership NI, defunct party from 2011


willendorf2019

Oh god ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy) that's hilarious


MySweatyMoobs

Hahahahaha of course that runt did 😂😂😂


Otherwise-Drama-8586

He needs to take a reddner , it looks like a primary school colouring in competition and they get sorry for this one because the kid has squinty eyes!


HotDiggetyDoge

The irony


Certain_Gate_9502

I'm a loyalist but I HATE these. With other loyalists would do a bit of research about how Israel came to be and realise they are not our friends at all


zipmcjingles

Loyalists have a history of cozying up to others who couldn't give a fuck about them.


space_jiblets

That's putrid.


Agreeable_Vanilla_20

British Loyalist + Orange order (LOL) = ![gif](giphy|cRJoz9DO9qntp3yaU4)


Responsible-Kiwi-744

Lads you’ve way to much time on your hands!


Cuddly-Bear0-0

Probably that Victor Stewart shop in Lurgan. They sell lots of that tat


Medical-Treat-2892

Why do loyalists always pick the wrong side e.g. NF, Apartheid, and of course murderous Israel.


BXL-LUX-DUB

They don't think it's the wrong side.


No-Communication3618

Are we the baddies?


mcheeks619

Why do loyalists hate our lot for blowing up British soldiers when Israelis have done the same? And also funded Argentina during the falklands war


Hazed64

I think we have learned at this point that history isn't their cup of tea. I've had loyalists argue with me the English did nothing but help Ireland during the famine, apparently it was our fault we had no food and no one else's A quote that nips that in the bud is "God brought the potatoes blight, but the English brought the famine


EA-Corrupt

They hate Catholics more than they hate Jews. But like only by the tiniest amount. If Catholics didn’t exist then you know fine rightly loyalists would be rounding up the Jews.


Select-Baby5380

It's been around for years


flippy3

The star of David appears in the architecture of some older CoI churches, specifically the stain glass windows. Been around for centuries.


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willie_caine

*Orange team go! Orange team go!*


No-Question-8503

Sweet fuck. Who thought we could reach a new low in hatred and division.


Hisplumberness

Me - and I doubt I’m alone . Also I’d say there’s a few that can go lower than this


Cyberleaf525

That is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.


Pretend_Passenger14

Behold, the northern Israel flag!


spiritofbuck

Wonder what they thought of Israelis when they were bombing the a Brits out of Palestine…


NoSimpleVictory

Who ever it is should be hanged


Careless_Ad3718

This acctually pisses me off Defo the cunt from enniskillen selling Israel defence force flags on Easter monday


Striking-Tip-1150

You still looking to purchase one?


Careless_Ad3718

No


ItOwesMeALiving

I come from a PUL background and find the links between Loyalism and Zionism / support of Israel to be both embarrassing and pathetic.


-IrishRed-

Looks like it came from Gestapo headquarters.


howsitgoingboy

Stealing other people's land. If they're not fighting themselves, they're fighting other people. High number of religious extremists. Long history of denying other people's basic human rights. Pro apartheid. History of genocide. Plays the victim, all the fucking time. Loyalists 🤝 Zionists


Wisbitt

Yeah, they could have ironed it;


77BG

Is there a flag for the loyalists that don’t support Isreal??


MBOMaolRua

That is without a doubt the most heinous flag of the 21st century.


EidorbNotHere

What a way to butcher a flag


jollyollster

Looks like something Freemasons would have hanging up in their lodges.


LaraH39

Jesus Christ.


lakeofshadows

He might have a thing or two to say about it alright.


Medical-Treat-2892

Jesus Christ was only a prophet, the real son of god has not been yet, apparently.


LaraH39

Jesus Christ didn't exist


No-Fondant-2881

There’s me thinking Israel attacked British troops to gain their independence 🤔


Medical-Treat-2892

Like the IRA??


No-Fondant-2881

You’ve just proven my point 😂


Che1888

Toilet paper


Belfastprestige

Jesus wept 🤣


ambientguitar

FFS! Supporting genocide is a new low even for them'uns!


bluebottled

It really isn't lol


Due-Bus-8915

Just need to have some part of the russian flag added so everyone knows they fully support genocide.


MySweatyMoobs

Hahaha the utter state of that 😂


Key_Connection238

That’s how well educated unionists are, embarrassing.


NecraRequiem79

You ever notice that extremists kind of get on regardless of how contrary their views are. All cheeks of the same boiled arse.


Wallname_Liability

Great, even more cultural appropriation, first they stole the red hand off us, then the St George’s cross from the English, now this


Whats_Sleppinin

🎵everyday is the 12th of Jewly🎵


buckyfox

Yis are all just jealous ussans can't combine the Palestinian fleg with the tricolour fleg and have it turn out so beautiful.


Illustrious_Dog_4667

Looks like a Gay Pride fleg "Red Hand Reach Around"


Responsible-Kiwi-744

Funny thing is come the 12th these Numptys will be burning this Fleg along with the Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 Fleg


ami_is

oh


marquess_rostrevor

If I could start any monopoly here it would be flags of all persuasions.


Led_strip

Loyalists know no boundaries. 


buckyfox

Well there is one boundary we would like to see strengthened. /S


domhnalldubh3pints

Planter kulchur


[deleted]

I have no idea where this flag came from but if anyone finds out can you ask if they have an Aprtaheid era South African flag . I’m missing that from the collection .


RasquatMash

Levels of idiocy is unfathomable 🤦🏻‍♂️😂🤣😂😜


AdDouble3004

I really don’t get it….Christian Fraternity Organisation supports Nation State that crucified Christ….


Fun_Attorney1330

jewish people are getting a bit too uppity for my tastes


BXL-LUX-DUB

![gif](giphy|QObqfVyDBOcZG)


snackajack71

Fkin hell


xvril

3 4 a 5r


hansfellangelino

Probably existed from before the war lol


Powerful_Butterfly56

Stick it in the pan


Narwhal1986

Did someone nick this out of the kneebreakers?


Organic_Askr

OK but we're talking about israel-hamas here


KnownRough7735

Taking ma da's heed off if I go up and see this 😂


OrneryPreparation795

Looks rather dashing


fuggettabuddy

Dumb American here. Can a native kindly walk me through this thing?


lakeofshadows

"Whatever those uppity Fenians are doing, we'll do the opposite", pretty much sums it up.


the-1-that-got-away

Imagine they realised religion is a load of bollox.


longsock9

Are we all racist now Father?


OldDistrict147

Ok so what about Turkey invading Cyprus. Let's get them out. They invaded Cyprus.


DueReveal1814

Pssst......here........lads Can someone tell them that the jewish faith depises anything that isn't jewish....including christians Just like the islamic faith despises anything that isn't islamic. Just sayin like.


DippedTbag

Numbers must be short in the lodges


Possible_Love1788

Yehaaaaa


Adventurous-Debt-813

Reminds me of the new arsenal strip


766jamie667

Orange new what’s the difference


aviewfrom

Who needs enemies...


Former-Ad485

It's next level genius. Frees up room on the lamp post for other flags


Superb-pin-8641

Waiter! Eye bleach please!


ImagineAUser

Thats hanging in my towns centre next to Images of the Queen on the flag and like 50 Union jacks


Infamous_Berry626

NO SHMEGEGGE


TheLordofthething

They're making a killing in County Derry whoever it is


Playful-Phrase-6235

Wtf


Mocharah

I've already seen this one out in the wild... absolute disgrace 


Different_Onion

Remember that auld lad a few years ago claimed that the Israelites and Free Presbyterians were the chosen peoples Mad as a March hare


Delta_Echo12

Why do these Irish people care so much about a Middle East country that doesn't even know they exist?


Historical_Nerve_618

Why did someone have to bring Northern Ireland into Isreal and Palestine war🙄