Protester waves Palestine, Sudan flags during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show

A protester waved Palestinian and Sudanese flags with the words “Gaza” and “Sudan” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl in New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome yesterday.

The individual, part of the 400-member field cast, jumped onto a car used in Lamar’s performance, hoisted the flag and sprinted across the field before being tackled and dragged off by security personnel.

The NFL confirmed that the protester had concealed the flag and revealed it during the show without prior knowledge from the production team. Roc Nation, responsible for the halftime performance, stated that the act “was neither planned nor part of the production and was never in any rehearsal.”

Moreover, NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy announced that the individual would face a lifetime ban from all NFL events and stadiums. The New Orleans Police Department is assessing potential charges against the protester.

The protest occurred with US President Donald Trump in attendance, marking the first time a sitting president had ever attended the Super Bowl.

Trump’s announcement last week that the US will “take over” the Gaza Strip after ethnically cleansing the enclave of its Palestinians landowners sparked widespread condemnation around the world.

Several countries, led by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, with the exception of the US, expressed their “rejection of any displacement of Palestinians outside their land,” and called for “working to embody the two-state solution and giving the Palestinians the opportunity to live in their state.”

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