Posted on 05/06/2024 6:05:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Several anti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial statue in Central Park Monday – and burned an American flag at its base – after a group of more than 1,000 marchers were blocked by cops from reaching the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala was in full swing.
A few of the protesters lit the flag on fire at the site of the One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial, which they graffitied with “Gaza” in large black letters and covered in stickers reading “Stop the genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine.”
Some of the protesters climbed atop the bronze soldiers and waved Palestinian flags or draped them over the figures.
Cops arrested approximately two dozen poeple before the flag-burning incident as the massive swarm of protesters marched from Hunter College toward the Met, according to police sources.
The still-growing crowd marched north on Fifth Avenue — blocking traffic along the way — before cops stopped them at the East 79th Street Transverse in Central Park.
The protesters had set out from Hunter College, where the Palestinian activist group Within Our Lifetime called for a “Day of Rage” protest to form and then march towards the Met.
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” the group chanted as they waved Palestinian flags and wore keffiyeh face coverings.
Despite setting their sights on the glitzy event — which has long been expected to be the target of demonstrations — the demonstrators could not reach the iconic art museum.
Cops managed to divert the crowd into Central Park before blocking the exits, where they remained at a standstill and confused about how to progress.
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If I was into subjugating women, I’d be hanging out at these protests.
They’re as dim as the queers for palestine idiots.
The ladies have decided that they are too pretty to have to cover up by wearing a hijab. This might cause trouble if they try to continue their studies in the Middle East.
Exactly
Isn’t burning the Quran in New York a hate crime?
RE: Isn’t burning the Quran in New York a hate crime?
Not by law ( a law like that would be challenged as a violation of the first amendment since burning Bibles is not a crime either ).
However, if you DO burn the Quran publicly, be prepared to meet an Islamist assasin.
BTTT
Looks like a fun group
NOT
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