‘Focus on football’: Guardiola criticised by Manchester Jewish group over Palestine comments

<ul><li><p>JRC unhappy with City manager’s ‘controversial views’</p></li><li><p>Guardiola referred on Tuesday to ‘genocide in Palestine’</p></li></ul><p>The Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has been urged to be “more careful with his future language” by representatives of the city’s Jewish community, after he spoke out about Israel’s attacks on Gaza.</p><p>Guardiola gave a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity event in his home city of Barcelona last week, and on Tuesday he told journalists at a press conference how the suffering of innocent people caught up in conflict, including the one in the Middle East, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/03/people-are-dying-you-have-to-help-guardiola-decries-wars-in-sudan-ukraine-and-palestine">“hurts” him, and leaves him feeling compelled to speak out</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/04/focus-on-football-pep-guardiola-criticised-manchester-jewish-group-palestine-comments">Continue reading...</a>