On Black Friday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators demonstrated in front of the Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York City, chanting, “We don't want a Christmas tree!” Intifada! Intifada! ”
In a video shot by Freedom News TV, hundreds of people marched down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and “apartheid.”
“Bombs are falling while we're shopping,” protesters shouted at onlookers on the street.
One speaker with a microphone yelled, “Trump is promising us more deportations!” This was met with loud boos from the crowd of protesters.
Afterward, he called the crowd “my comrades” and chanted “one solution, one revolution.”
“Now is the time to fight. Now is the time to fight like never before. It is time to fight because our lives are at stake. Can I count on each and every one of you?” he asked to cheers. .
Pro-Palestinian protesters then announced they were organizing a demonstration on January 20, the day of the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Similar protests occurred in Boston amid people trying to shop on Black Friday, with signs reading, “Your shopping bags fund children in body bags.” It was done.
This is the second year in a row that anti-Israel activists have attacked. proven At the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. Breitbart News reported that an attempt was made to disrupt the lighting of the hugely popular Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 2023.
Video taken by Viral News NYC shows at least six people clashing with protesters and police last year. arrest, According to ABC7:
