Moment woman wearing a Palestine flag badge on her jacket is refused entry to a central London pub
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This is the moment a woman was banned from a London pub because of the Palestinian flag emblem on her jacket.
Dramatic footage has been posted on social media showing the woman getting into a heated argument with a staff member at the entrance to The Red Lion pub in Westminster yesterday.
Pointing to the Palestinian flag on her jacket, the woman shouts: “If I were wearing an American, English or Ukrainian flag, you wouldn’t ask me to take it off, would you? That would be considered insulting.”
“If I was carrying a rainbow flag or a pride flag, you wouldn’t stop me, no, you wouldn’t!”
Meanwhile, the employee repeatedly answers, “Yes, I would, yes, I would.”
Do you know the woman? Send an email to katherine.lawton@mailonline.co.uk
A woman is denied entry to a London pub because of the Palestinian flag on her jacket
The woman points to the Palestinian flag on her jacket and gets into an argument with the employee
A guard stands at the door while the woman argues with the staff member
A security guard blocks the entrance to the pub as he watches the heated argument between the two.
A spokesman for The Red Lion said: ‘The pub’s location on Whitehall means it is often on the route of protests from all sides of the political divide.
‘We are a place that is open to everyone and we want to make sure that everyone in the pub is equal and that we remain neutral.
‘That’s why the pub’s management team decided a few years ago to ask customers to remove all flags, badges and overt political slogans – regardless of the cause – before entering the pub.’
In April this year, football star Shaun Johnson caused a stir by wearing a ‘Free Palestine’ badge on his shirt.
A month earlier, two Israeli brothers were arrested upon arrival in Britain and aggressively interrogated by “anti-Semitic” border control officers.
British Border Force has been criticised for “humiliating” two Israeli survivors of the Nova Music Festival by detaining them at Manchester airport for two hours after flying out to talk about their experience.