NYC anti-Israel protesters call for ‘intifada revolution’ hours after ISIS flag-wielding terrorist killed at least 14 in New Orleans
Jewish leaders slammed a massive crew of anti-Israel protesters who gathered in Times Square on New Year’s Day to call for “intifada revolution” on the same day an ISIS-inspired terrorist carried out a deadly car attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
The protest — organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People’s Forum — was led in a chant of “There is only one solution: intifada revolution.”
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“We’re sending you back to Europe, you white b–ches,” one female demonstrator wearing a keffiyeh shouted at counter-protesters outside the event, video posted to social media shows. “Go back to Europe! Go back to Europe,” she repeated.
“2024 was a year of struggle against the crime of Zionism,” one speaker shouts through a megaphone in the heart of the Big Apple.
“We will be here every single year for generation after generation until total liberation and return,” they said, according to Times of Israel.
Protesters carried signs with messages like “End All US aid to Israel,” “End Zionism” and “No War on Iran.”
The crowd also chanted, “We will honor all our martyrs.”
The display disgusted many leaders in the Jewish community.
“They’re not interested in peace, humanity or facts,” Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council, said.“This is the same group of people who marched across Times Square the day after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
“They blamed Jews for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which is one of the oldest and deadliest forms of antisemitism,” Treyger, whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors, told The Post.
Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism and former Brooklyn state Assemblyman called the anti-Israel protestors are deeply unwell.
“These people are supporting the terrorists and the enemies of America — plain and simple,” Hikind said Thursday.
“The authorities haven’t addressed this spewing of hate. I’m waiting for Donald Trump to get into office and take antisemitism seriously,” Hikind told The Post.
Wednesday’s demonstration happened just hours after a suspected terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, plowed a pickup truck bearing an ISIS flag into New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people.
Jabbar, 42, was shot dead by cops in a gunfight. Three improvised pipe bombs were found nearby in the tourist-drawing French Quarter, including one in Jabbar’s truck.
The Post exclusively reported that Jabbar, a US-born military veteran, lived in a trailer park community in Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants.
The rundown home is within walking distance of local mosque Masjid Bilal.
Jabbar traveled to Egypt for 10 days last year, officials told The Post.
He served active duty in the US Army from March 2007 until January 2015 and was a reservist from 2015 until July 2020.
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, called the protests “antisemitism.”
“Their identification with a terrorist organization that publicly advocates to destroy the Jewish people provides compelling evidence of who they are,” Potasnik said.
