Londonistan: Police Arrest Iranian Activist for Carrying Sign Saying ‘Hamas Is Terrorist’

It’s about three baby steps from “hide your Star of David” to “you MUST display OUR Star of David.”

Londonistan: Police Arrest Iranian Activist for Carrying Sign Saying ‘Hamas Is Terrorist’

But don’t worry, he was later “de-arrested”.

Police officers and protesters on Vauxhall Bridge during the pro-Palestinian march through central London which has controversially coincided with the annual Armistice Day event, on 11th November 2023. Amid tensions between opposing communities and on the day of national mourning for Britain’s war dead, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has clashed with both Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who questioned whether the march against Israeli’s attacks on Gaza should go ahead due to possible public disorder. 300,000 thousand took the agreed route taken by protesters, from Hyde Park Corner to the US embassy, well away from the Cenotaph itself and wider Whitehall area where a 24hr exclusion zone was imposed. Almost a hundred counter-protesters were arrested. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested an Iranian activist again on Wednesday for carrying a sign saying that Hamas are “terrorists”, despite even the British government branding the radical Islamist Palestinian group a terror group.

Niyak Ghorbani, a 38-year-old man from Iran, has come to national attention for holding a sign reading “Hamas Is Terrorist” at pro-Palestinian rallies in London over the past months. For merely holding up a sign factually stating the legal position of the British and American governments, Ghorbani has been arrested multiple times at protests and has even faced assault by anti-Israel activists.

The Iranian activist was arrested again on Wednesday outside Parliament during a pro-Palestinian rally, with footage posted on social media appearing to show officers question him about his sign and threaten him with arrest if he approached the pro-Palestinian activists.

In a statement following the arrest, the Met said: “Officers arrested a man for a suspected public order offence in relation to a sign he was carrying.

“It was quickly established that the man should not have been arrested and the wording on the banner did not constitute an offence. He was de-arrested a short time later.”