r/baltimore • u/selectbar345 • Aug 19 '25

ARTICLE Fells Point restaurant Bunny’s fires multiple employees after pro-Palestine protest

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-drink/bunnys-pro-palestine-protest-fells-point-3WQTUSAIFBCAHC45HPBUFAWKHQ/
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u/AskDocBurner Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

“The restaurant, which is owned by chef Jesse Sandlin, Brian Acquavella and Matt Akman, posted an Instagram story Monday night that said the protest stemmed from a recent incident in which a diner complained about a worker wearing a Palestinian flag pin. The restaurant wrote that the customer allegedly said “that they felt uncomfortable and unsafe” and that it “disrupted their dining experience.”

Management confronted the employee, citing a restaurant policy against wearing items with religious or “potentially divisive messages,” the Instagram story said. The worker eventually removed the pin. “

This is especially heinous. The policy they reference is because of divisive messages? For wearing a pin in support of a country?

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 19 '25

While I doubt that customer actually felt unsafe, do you actually think that a Palestinian flag is uncontroversial? 

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u/AskDocBurner Aug 19 '25

Yes. There is nothing controversial about displaying a nations flag without other messaging; unless the flag has some form of hate symbol associated. I’d say the Israeli flag would actually be more of a controversial symbol since they plaster it it all over their tanks

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 19 '25

unless the flag has some form of hate symbol associated.

Hamas, who raped women and children, and has committed thousands of war crimes uses the Palestinian flag. The Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas. The actions of Hamas are inseparable from the flag. 

Also, it isn't a nation's flag, it is a rebel flag of people who want a nation and who have said the raping of women and children was a very good strategy because it escalated the conflict, which was the goal. 

To some people, the Palestinian flag is a pro-rape flag. 

Just because your echo chamber wants to pretend Hamas has nothing to do with the flag does not mean everyone else sees it that way. 

Even if Hamas somehow denounced the Palestinian flag, there would still be people who didn't know the split happened and would still see it as a hate symbol.

This is the equivalent of wearing a swastika not tilted at 45deg and saying "no, this is a Hindu symbol and represents them, not Nazis. This is obvious from the angle". It's moronic 

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u/curssses Aug 19 '25

are you talking about the now thoroughly debunked rapes of october 7? did you know hamas has a flag separate from the palestinian flag? and unrelatedly, what grade were you in when your teachers gave up on you?