The palestinian march towards co-opting pretty much everything continues, with the concept of “racism” now being bastardized to include anything that offends the anti-Israel protesters.
A prominent anti-Hamas activist arrested for racism after eating a banana during a pro-Palestine protest thanked a judge after she lifted “sweeping and disproportionate” bail conditions imposed by police.
Niyak Ghorbani, 38, was accused of making a racist gesture with the fruit while standing with counter protesters in central London on Saturday May 4.
He was seen on video eating a banana and waving another one in the air at pro-Palestine marchers outside a Barclays Bank.
The Iranian dissident, well-known for holding a “Hamas Are Terrorists” banner at counter protests, denies he was being racist and insists he was simply eating the fruit.
After his arrest, police imposed bail conditions on the 38-year-old banning him from attending any protest relating to Palestine or from entering the London boroughs of Camden or Westminster.
Mr Ghorbani’s lawyer insisted his actions with the banana were not racially motivated in any event and that the bail conditions were unnecessary and disproportionate.
First they came for the watermelon
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a watermelon
Then they came for the banana…
While waving a banana at a BLM rally, for instance, could be construed as racist, given the history of racism against Black Americans and some of the racist insults thrown their way, the banana in this case has nothing to do with race; rather, it is an allusion to the mockery of snowflake protesters in the US who tried to prohibit bananas entering the campus due to one of them having a potentially fatal banana allergy.
Meanwhile, the same police arresting this man for waving a banana and stopping him from holding a “Hamas are terrorists” banner seem to do very little about the very real antisemitism (and terror support) on display at these same protests.
