- Do you know the woman? Email katherine.lawton@mailonline.co.uk
This is the moment a woman was refused entry to a London pub because of the Palestine flag badge on her jacket.
Dramatic footage posted on social media shows the woman having a heated argument with a member of staff outside The Red Lion pub in Westminster yesterday.
Pointing to the Palestinian flag on her jacket, the woman shouts: “If I was wearing an American flag, or an English flag, or a Ukrainian flag, I wouldn’t be asked to take it off, that would be considered offensive.
‘If I was carrying a rainbow flag or a pride flag, they wouldn’t stop me, they wouldn’t!’
Meanwhile, the employee repeatedly answers, “Yes, I would, yes I would.”
Do you know the woman? Email katherine.lawton@mailonline.co.uk
A woman is seen being refused entry to a London pub because of the Palestinian flag on her jacket.
The woman points to the Palestinian flag on her jacket and has an argument with the staff member.
A security guard stands at the door as the woman has a fight with the staff member.
A security guard blocks the entrance to the pub as he watches the heated argument between the couple.
A spokesman for The Red Lion said: ‘The location of this pub, in Whitehall, means it is frequently on the route of protests from all sides of the political divide.
‘We are a place open to everyone and we want to make sure that everyone is equal within the pub and that we remain neutral.
‘As a result, the pub’s management team took the decision a few years ago to ask customers to remove all flags, insignia and obvious political slogans, whatever the cause, before entering the pub.’
In April this year, football star Shaun Johnson sparked controversy by wearing a “Free Palestine” badge on his shirt.
A month earlier, two Israeli brothers were detained and subjected to aggressive interrogation by “anti-Semitic” Border Force personnel when they arrived in Britain.
The UK Border Force has been criticised for “degrading” two Israeli survivors of the Nova Music Festival and detaining them for two hours at Manchester Airport after they flew in to speak about their experience.
