GB News reporter targeted at pro-Palestine protest as | UK News

A professional-Palestine protester was left gobsmacked after accusing GB News reporter Alex Armstrong of being “far-right”. The tense on-screen exchange left the protester red-faced when he was unable to clarify the definition of the time period.  

The incident happened at a pro-Palestine protest just two days after a terrorist assault on a Manchester synagogue. When he was requested by the presenter why he was being branded as “far-right”, the protester rigorously dodged the query. He merely repeated: “I don’t need to prove it because you know it” and failed to reply the query. 

At one level, a man performed a siren through a megaphone into Alex’s microphone, drowning out his phrases. But the  33-year-old presenter remained calm as he replied: “It’s free speech in this country, you just don’t like free speech.”  

The protester then claimed the journalist was “not even a journalist,” insisting: “Darling, I could be a better journalist than you.” Unfazed, Alex pressed again: “Alright, can you define far-right?” But the protester merely replied, “I don’t need to define something to you.”  

Later on in the show, Alex said: “I’m not going to be cowed by some intimidatory acts by the far-left, and neither is it going to stop me from doing my job. If they think their comments get under my skin, trust me, I’ve had far, far worse than that thrown at me.  

“As you, many of you at home, probably have seen on this channel, the whole reason GB News goes to these protests is to hear from real people, no matter their politics. This is what fearless journalism is all about.”  

The demonstration comes after the heightened tensions following the current assault at a synagogue in Manchester, where two people have been killed. In addition to the 2 fatalities, three others stay in the hospital with severe accidents following the incident, which happened on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the 12 months.  

The attacker, who was shot useless at the scene, was confirmed to be 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent. Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson said the only photographs fired outdoors the synagogue got here from armed officers, as Al-Shamie himself was unarmed.  

In a assertion launched on Friday (October 3), Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Rabbi Daniel Walker, its president Hilary Focler and chairman of trustees Alan Levy, described the phobia assault as a “desecration”. It is known that police are still no nearer to offering a conclusive motive behind the assault.