Pro-Hamas protesters are escalating their tactics and even targeting the country in which they’re currently residing: America.
During a Thursday night protest, agitators burned and America flag, according to footage posted by @ScooterCasterNY:
Pro-Palestine Protesters burn American flag while chanting "From the river to the sea Palestine will be Free" outside of NYC City Hall #HappeningNow
Video by Kevin RC Wilson [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/l5xevm7tkL
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 26, 2023
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The protesters in New York City used a familiar genocidal refrain, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
It’s not clear why they’re chanting that comfortably from 5,675 miles away from the fighting and not joining in.
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The one day later, protesters swarmed Grand Central station in a highly organized disruption that included printed t-shirts:
THREAD 🧵: HUNDREDS ARRESTED as Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers and their allies STORM and Occupy Grand Central Terminal in NYC to demand a Ceasefire in Gaza and to #FreePalestine
Crowds sat on the ground, some climbed the walls with banners reading "Never Again for Anyone" pic.twitter.com/Lj4mocM4Mb
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2023
A Democrat member of the state Assembly, Rep. Emily Gallagher, was arrested:
Assembly member Emily Gallagher was among those arrested at Grand Central Terminal "We must stand up as hard as we can for ceasefire" /6 pic.twitter.com/FXAPz7KHLQ
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 28, 2023
Gallagher told reporters as she was being led away that she was “standing up for peace and ceasefire.”
“We must stand up as hard as we can for ceasefire,” she said.
Gallagher wasn’t the only legislator siding with Hamas.
According to Common Dreams, “New York state Sens. Jabari Brisport (D-25), Robert Jackson (D-35), and Julia Salazar (D-18); State Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani (D-36) and Emily Gallagher (D-50); and New York City Council Members Tiffany Cabán (D-22), Alexa Avilés (D-38), Sandy Nurse (D-37), and Chi Ossé (D-36) took part in the protest.”