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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

‘Standing up for Palestinians’: why Greta Thunberg wears a Bohemian FC shirt

Greta Thunberg wearing a Bohemians shirt.
Greta Thunberg onboard a flotilla vessel while moored at Barcelona port. Photograph: Lluís Gené/AFP/Getty Images

The humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza is a serious mission with an incongruous detail: Greta Thunberg sporting a jersey of the Dublin football club Bohemians.

The Swedish activist wore the pale blue shirt during an earlier flotilla in June and again this week as vessels prepared to leave Barcelona.

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