{"id":139865,"date":"2026-06-01T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139865\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:04:15","slug":"thousands-attend-annual-israel-day-parade-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139865\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend annual Israel Day parade in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Euronews;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Euronews\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"138\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-10\/9e9b7040-8256-11ef-bf7f-e1488b49cbe5.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Mon, 1 June 2026 at 6:16 am UTC<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people gathered along Fifth Avenue in New York on Sunday for the city\u2019s annual Israel Day parade.<\/p>\n<p>Video showed attendees waving Israeli and American flags as floats, performers and community groups moved through the streets accompanied by music and banners.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders including New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined the event, which commemorates the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Security was visible along the parade route as large crowds lined the avenue. Organisers and participants described the event as a celebration of Jewish identity, culture and community, while families travelled from across the region to take part in the annual gathering.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend the annual parade, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, 1 June 2026 at 6:16 am UTC Thousands of people gathered along Fifth Avenue in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[46071,2698,37,38984,43515,4204],"class_list":["post-139865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-american-flags","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-israel","tag-israel-day-parade","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116673581165934865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}