A woman has caused outrage after tearing Greek flags from outside a restaurant at a pro-Palestine speech because she thought they were Israeli.
The TikTokker can be heard shouting “I don’t support genocide, I don’t support Zionism” while removing the pennant from a gyro shop in New Jersey.
He also filmed himself confronting staff, saying: “What are they going to do?” and “Are you proud of your heritage?” as they watched in horror.
The woman only stopped when people working at Efi’s Gyros on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair Township told her the flags were actually Greek.
Then he sheepishly responded, “I thought it was Israel, my fault.”
The TikTokker can be heard shouting “I don’t support genocide, I don’t support Zionism” while removing the pennant from a gyro shop in New Jersey.
He also filmed himself confronting staff (pictured), saying: “What are they going to do?” and “Are you proud of your heritage?” as they looked in horror
The woman uploaded the video to TikTok with the caption “the time I mistakenly thought Greece’s flag was Israel’s and pulled down the restaurant’s flag OMG.”
She has since been criticized online, with one person commenting “this is so embarrassing.”
Another said: “The fact that you caused problems for the employees says so.”
A third added: ‘Bro literally says gyros in the window. This is so embarrassing and offensive.
‘Stay out of this lane if you can’t even figure out the right flags!’
A fourth joked: “This made it hard for me to see him as a person from Greece.”
Although both the Greek and Israeli flags are blue and white, the Israeli flag has a Star of David in the center.
The Israeli flag, blue and white, with a Star of David in the center.
Pictured: A Greek flag flies over the island of Corfu.
Meanwhile, in the conflict between Israel and Gaza, the IDF today launched a series of missile strikes on Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, for the first time in six days, as it faced pressure from the United States over aid to Gaza.
The country’s military led the attacks south of 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 between buildings in the Haret Hreik area of the capital following two attacks, which occurred shortly after the Israeli army ordered residents to leave.
Netanyahu’s pledge to continue fighting Hezbollah came as the United States increased pressure on Israel’s conduct of the wars in Lebanon and Gaza, criticizing the recent bombing of Beirut and demanding more aid reach the Palestinian territory.
In a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Netanyahu said he is “opposed to a unilateral ceasefire, which does not change the security situation in Lebanon and will only return it to the way it was,” according to a statement from his office.
Israel launched a series of missile attacks on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, for the first time in six days; Smoke was seen rising over buildings in the city’s southern suburbs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month, rejected the idea of a ceasefire in Lebanon that would leave Hezbollah close to his country’s border.
Netanyahu and the Israeli military have insisted that there must be a buffer zone along Israel’s border with Lebanon where there is no presence of Hezbollah fighters.
The statement read: “Prime Minister Netanyahu clarified that Israel will not accept any agreement that does not provide this (a buffer zone) and that does not prevent Hezbollah from rearming and regrouping.”
In a defiant televised speech, Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said the only solution was a ceasefire, while threatening to expand the scope of its missile attacks across Israel.
“Since the Israeli enemy targeted all of Lebanon, we have the right from a defensive position to attack any place” in Israel, he said.