{"id":285486,"date":"2025-10-08T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285486\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:29:11","slug":"anti-israel-protesters-chant-antisemitic-slogan-in-nyc-on-two-year-anniversary-of-hamas-oct-7-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285486\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel protesters chant antisemitic slogan in NYC on two-year anniversary of Hamas&#8217; Oct. 7 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters converged in Manhattan Tuesday, screaming the antisemitic slogan \u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d and wielding vile signs on the second anniversary of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-news\/idf-soldiers-who-lost-limbs-defending-country-get-life-altering-treatments-in-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and also bellowed chants of \u201cIt is right to resist, Israel does not exist\u201d in protest of the Jewish state on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Many carried signs that read \u201cLong Live the Intifada,\u201d \u201cAs the UN is meeting, Gaza is bleeding\u201d and \u201cFrom New York to Palestine, Starving People is a Crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration comes on the second anniversary of October 7th, the deadly terror attack that sparked the prolonged conflict raging in Gaza. LP Media<\/p>\n<p>Protestors shouted slogans like \u201cFrom the River to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d and \u201cIt is right to resist, Israel does not exist.\u201d LP Media<\/p>\n<p>One demonstrator brought a particularly hateful homemade sign that read \u201cIsrael has the right to go to Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others banged protest drums and called for the Intifada while holding a massive banner that read \u201cGlory to our Martyrs.\u201d A man carried a banner that appeared to have a jihadist flag adorned with a machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>Many protesters carried signs that read \u201cLong Like the Intifada.\u201d LP Media<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel protestors swarmed midtown Manhattan today, wavings flags and chanting antisemetic slogans. LP Media<\/p>\n<p>Others banged on drums while holding a banner that read \u201cGlory to our Martyrs.\u201d LP Media<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael bombs, USA pays, how many kids did you kill today,\u201d was called out in one of many organized chants.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the participants covered their faces with surgical masks or keffiyehs, the Middle Eastern garb popular among anti-Israel protesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vitriolic protestors swarmed outside the News Corp building in Midtown which is home to The Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly two hours of chaotic clambering, the protesters marched up Sixth Avenue carrying a massive Palestinian flag that stretched across nearly the entire city street.<\/p>\n<p>They blocked traffic while chanting \u201c1,12,3,4 Israel loves war!\u201d and \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Jewish counter-protestors on the sidewalk shouted back \u201crelease the hostages!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The large group eventually migrated to Columbus Circle where a diminishing number of agitators vandalized bus stops posts and cars with markers \u2014 including on a Tesla Cyber Truck which was scrawled with pink marker reading \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some protestors attempted to gain entry to the plaza at Columbus Circle but were actively turned away by security officers.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Israel demonstration comes on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel carried out by Hamas which set off the prolonged conflict still raging in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors swarmed outside of the News Corp building, which is home to The Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fox News. LP Media<\/p>\n<p>Protestors swarmed the front courtyard of the News Corp building, the home of The Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal. LP Media<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d \u2013 which refers to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea \u2013 is a common rallying cry during anti-Israel protests and has been deemed antisemitic by the American Jewish Committee in certain contexts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the phrase is used with the harmful intent of implying the erasure of the State of Israel, ethnic cleansing of Jews from the land, or simply as harassment of Jews in any other part of the world, it is antisemitic,\u201d the AJC states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s protest came as\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/world-news\/kushner-witkoff-wont-leave-egypt-without-agreement-to-release-israeli-hostages-end-gaza-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were heading to Egypt to negotiate the end of the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters converged in Manhattan Tuesday, screaming the antisemitic slogan \u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12648,99,373,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7237,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-285486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-hamas-war","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-protests","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115336430480675142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}