A video from Monday’s Iran-New Zealand World Cup game at SoFi Stadium outside of Los Angeles appeared to show a man’s Israeli flag getting confiscated, while adjacent Palestinian flags were allowed to remain.
FOX News The Instagram reel, posted by @blackandjewishunity, showed a man, who later identified himself to Fox News Digital as Rony, with an Israeli flag draped over his shoulders approached by two members of Apex Private Security at the stadium. One staff member said that “the house, which is the facility here, is asking to remove this flag” for Rony’s “safety.” “Why can’t you remove that flag?” Rony asked, pointing to a Palestinian flag just two rows behind him. “You guys aren’t removing this flag but you guys are removing my flag?
Rony told security that if the Palestinian flag were removed, he would remove his Israeli flag. Another staff member said if Rony did not give up his Israeli flag, he would have to leave the stadium. The second staff member said it was the “call” of apparent nearby FIFA employees to have the Israeli flag removed, while he and Rony both had their hands on the flag.
Later on in the video, a female Apex security member said, “The only flags that are allowed to be out are the teams that are playing.” When she was notified that the Palestinian and post-Revolutionary Iranian flags were not confiscated, she responded, “Oh, I don’t know.”
When Rony attempted to get his flag back, he approached a first responder and said that security said they would give him his flag back. The first responder answered, “No they didn’t. FIFA took it.”
Rony said he was told that staff was “pointing at me and singled me out” in a sold-out stadium. “I saw flags from all around the world. There’s flags from Lebanon, Mexico, everywhere, from all walks of the world, there’s flags.
Rony said he was also told by security that the “head of FIFA didn’t care about” the Palestinian flag behind him, “and they only cared about my flag in particular.” “They said they don’t have a problem with their flags, and they only have an issue with ours,” Rony said, citing a double standard. “They had no marching orders in order to take their flag, or anyone else’s flag.
Antisemitism at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
During World Cup matches, security at the stadium demanded that a fan remove his Israeli flag.
When he asked why, they simply said they had “orders from above.”
Meanwhile, numerous fans waving Palestinian flags were left completely… pic.twitter.com/TkA67irFXf— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) June 17, 2026
Well, it’s California. what would you expect from that Commie stronghold?