‘MY BAD’: TikToker rips down Greek flags thinking they were Israel’s

'I think this is the first time I’ve ever experienced secondhand embarrassment'

Published Oct 17, 2024  •  2 minute read

Screenshot of restaurant worker being yelled at by woman ripping down Greek flags thinking they were Israeli flags. Photo by Ambamelia /TikTok

An oblivious anti-Israel TikToker filmed herself as she tore down blue-and-white flags outside a New Jersey restaurant.

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While the act itself isn’t funny at all, the joke was on her because what she thought were Israeli flags were actually Greek flags.

“The time I mistakenly thought the flag for (Greece) was for Israel and took the restaurant’s flag down OMG,” the woman, who goes by Ambamelia on the social media platform, titled her video, which has more than four million views.

“Look at that s***,” she says in the footage as she uses one of the eatery’s patio chairs to rip down a string of Greek flags hanging outside Efi’s Gyro in Montclair, N.J.

“Free Palestine, bitch!” the TikToker says, before turning to a baffled employee inside the establishment and asking, “What you looking at?”

“You know there’s a genocide,” she barks at the woman behind the counter.

“I don’t stand for Zionism in Montclair!” she adds while holding up the torn-down flags.

She continues to tear down flags, questioning to herself aloud, “What are they going to do? They can’t do nothing.”

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Two confused workers eventually come out to confront the woman, pointing out that the flags she so proudly yanked down are for Greece.

“What? Really? Oh, I thought it was Israel — my bad,” she says without apologizing.

“Oh s*** … it looked like Israel.”

Commenters were mostly in disbelief that she not only shared the “embarrassing” video but that it is still up for viewing.

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“Why did you post this?!!” one person asked incredulously.

A second user joked: “You could NEVERRRR waterboard this information out of me.”

Another noted: “Don’t even know who you’re fighting for.”

A fourth person wrote, “I think this is the first time I’ve ever experienced secondhand embarrassment.”

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The restaurant’s owner, Efi Mihalis, denied that it was a prank, insisting to the New York Post that it was “not a skit as some people believe.”

She continued: “This was not planned nor was it calculated in any way,” adding her staff were “taken aback” when it happened.

“The young woman destroyed my property.”

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