Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in Times Square on New Year's Day, the same day terrorists carried out a deadly car attack in New Orleans' French Quarter, waving Palestinian flags and calling for an “intifada revolution.”
The protest, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Socialist Liberation Party and the People's Forum, was led by the chant: “There is only one solution: the intifada revolution.”
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“You white bastards, we're sending you back to Europe,” one female demonstrator wearing a keffiyeh shouted at counter-protesters outside the event. video Posted on social media show. “Go back to Europe! Go back to Europe,” she repeated.
“2024 was the year of the fight against Zionist crimes,” one speaker shouted into a megaphone in the heart of the Big Apple.
“We will be here year after year, generation after generation, until our complete liberation and return,” they said. According to the Times of Israel.
Demonstrators held placards with messages such as “End all US aid to Israel,” “Stop Zionism,” and “No war with Iran.”
The crowd also chanted, “We salute all the martyrs.”
The demonstrations came just days after suspected terrorist Shamsuddin Jabar plowed a pickup truck with an ISIS flag into New Year's Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people. It happened a few hours later.
Mr. Jabbar, 42, was then shot and killed by police in a gunfight. Three improvised pipe bombs, including one in Jabbar's truck, were found near the tourist hotspot of the French Quarter.
The FBI is searching for an accomplice in the New Orleans attack.
The Post exclusively reported that Jabbar, a U.S.-born military veteran, lived in a Houston trailer park community made up of mostly Muslim immigrants.
The dilapidated house is within walking distance of the local mosque, Masjid Bilal.
Mr. Jabbar traveled to Egypt for 10 days last year, officials told the Post.
He served on active duty in the U.S. Army from March 2007 to January 2015 and in the Reserves from 2015 to July 2020.
