A decade of Lajee Celtic: The Palestinian club whose fans include Cantona

London, United Kingdom – Nearly 200 people packed into Edami, a small Lebanese bakery in east London, to celebrate a decade of Lajee Celtic, a grassroots sports club based in a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. What began as a football project has grown into an international symbol of solidarity. In London, the room was filled with Palestinian flags, the aroma of Edami’s freshly baked manousheh, and Lajee Celtic shirts – which have been worn by celebrities, including football icon Eric Cantona and the actor Hannah Einbinder. Martin, a Lajee Celtic organiser, travelled down from Glasgow for the celebration in September.