Posted on 05/11/2024 10:07:30 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A prominent anti-Hamas activist was arrested for racism after eating a banana during a pro-Palestine protest.
Niyak Ghorbani was accused of making a racist gesture with the banana while standing with counter protesters in central London last Saturday.
The 38-year-old Iranian dissident, who has become a familiar figure for holding a “Hamas Are Terrorists” banner at counter protests, denies he was being racist and insists he was simply eating the fruit.
He was referencing recent events on American campuses in which bananas were used to taunt pro-Palestinian protesters.
Mr Gohrbani was handcuffed and led away by five officers after pro-Palestine protesters outside Barclays Bank in Tottenham Court Road complained to police.
Footage from last Saturday’s incident showed Mr Ghorbani eating a banana and later waving another one in the air alongside his England flag. At one stage tensions erupt after he offers the uneaten banana to a protester wearing a Palestinian scarf around his face.
Separate footage shows an officer taking the flag from Mr Ghorbani and the banana being trodden underfoot as he is led away.
Mr Ghorbani told The Telegraph: “I was holding my Hamas Are Terrorists banner and when the marchers tried to cover it with flags to hide it I got out my England flag and flew that.
“At the same time I got one of my two bananas and started eating it. I didn’t make any racist gestures or insults. I was just standing there eating a banana but somebody must have complained about me being racist.”
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They, just elected Khan, an islamist that hates White people as mayor for the third time.
It will, soon, be a crime to be White, in Britain.
What is going on is a worldwide communist revolution.
The "pro pali" protesters don't care about the people in Gaza or the West Bank.
It's all about the destruction of Judeo Christian Western Civilization, which is the greatest obstacle to the imposition of worldwide communist tyranny.
They look at it as an opportunity to push the revolution forward.
Many of the "protestors", especially the organizers were involved in Occupy Wall Street, Charlottesville, the blm / antifa riots, here.
The banana thing, as someone, already posted, is mocking the useful idiots, as the snowflakes as, at one "encampment" they posted a sign forbidding bananas because someone had an allergy.
He offended the monkeys they were jealous
Yep.
Britain is dead.
That’s a slippery slope you’re going down there.
I think he slipped up with this, though.
Folks! Bananas have become a symbol against these pro-Hamas rallies.
It came from some snowflake who told everyone not to bring bananas to their rally because she was allergic.
Pro-Israel demonstrators showed up with bananas:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4234466/posts
Don’t tell me the azho left have made bananas “wasisssss”? Crap!!!!
I think he wanted the Hammies to “tally” his banana.
“If this mindset creeps into the US (it’s here, I know), I can see militias becoming more socially acceptable.”
First come vigilance committees. We’re seeing them pop up in the streets with citizens beating and/or capturing criminals and throwing illegal squatters out of houses.
Militias will be absorbed by constitutional sheriff departments as “deputies” for use in “emergency” situations. It’s the proper and legal way to go.
A wonderful example of why the State shouldn’t ‘get to decide’ on matters of free speech. So this was ‘racist’, how so? “because we say so”.
UK is lost...it looks nothing like the place I grew up in.
I see they have common sense banana control in the UK!
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