Fury as woman tries to rip down Greek flags mistaking them for Israeli

A woman has caused outrage after she ripped down Greek flags from outside a restaurant in a pro-Palestine rant because she thought they were Israeli. The TikTokker can be heard shouting ‘I don’t stand for genocide, I don’t stand for Zionism’ as she removed the bunting from a gyros shop in New Jersey.

She also filmed herself confronting the staff, saying ‘what are they gunna do’ and ‘are you proud of your heritage?’ as they watched on in horror. The woman only stopped when she was told the flags were in fact Greek by people who worked in Efi’s Gyros on Bloomfield Avenue in the township of Montclair. She then sheepishly replied: ‘I thought it was Israel – my bad’.

The woman uploaded the video on TikTok with the caption ‘the time I mistakenly thought the Flag for Greece was for Israel and took the restaurant’s flag down OMG’. She has since been criticised online with one person commenting ‘this is so embarrassing’. 

Another said: ‘The fact you gave the employees trouble said.’ A third added: ‘Bro literally says gyros on the window. This is so embarrassing and offensive. ‘Stay out of this lane if you can’t even decipher the correct flags!’

A fourth quipped: ‘This made it hard for me to watch as a Greece person’. Although both Greek and Israeli flags are blue and white, the Israeli one has a Star of David in its center.

Meanwhile in the Israel-Gaza conflict, the IDF today launched a series of missile strikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut for the first time in six days – as it faced pressure from the U.S. over aid to Gaza. The country’s military aimed the attacks on south Beirut, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of a ceasefire in Lebanon that would leave Hezbollah close to Israel’s border.

An AFP journalist saw black smoke billowing between buildings in the capital’s Haret Hreik area following two strikes, which hit shortly after an Israeli military order for residents to leave. Mr Netanyahu’s vow to keep fighting Hezbollah came as the United States ramped up pressure over Israel’s conduct of the wars in Lebanon and Gaza, criticising the recent bombing of Beirut and demanding more aid reach the Palestinian territory.

In a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Netanyahu said he was ‘opposed to a unilateral ceasefire, which does not change the security situation in Lebanon, and which will only return it to the way it was’, according to a statement from his office. Mr Netanyahu and the Israeli military have insisted there must be a buffer zone along Israel’s border with Lebanon where there is no presence of Hezbollah fighters.

The statement said: ‘Prime Minister Netanyahu clarified that Israel would not agree to any arrangement that does not provide this (a buffer zone) and which does not stop Hezbollah from rearming and regrouping.’ In a defiant televised speech, Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem said the only solution was a ceasefire – while threatening to expand the scope of its missile strikes across Israel. ‘Since the Israeli enemy targeted all of Lebanon, we have the right from a defensive position to target any place’ in Israel, he said.

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