Earlier this month, the size of anti-Israel forces in New York City fell to a sickening low. literally.
Hundreds of activists gathered outside Tisch Hospital, a mile from the United Nations in New York City, for a “disease of genocide” protest organized by the Hamas apologetic group Within Our Lifetime. Speakers at the rally called for the release of Dr. Hassam Abu Safiya, director of the Gaza hospital, who is under investigation for suspected involvement in terrorist activities.
Hospital visitors and patients had hoped for calm and peace during their convalescence, but were instead greeted with chants such as “We don't want Zionists here,” “Baby killers,” “Abolish Israel,” “Globalize the Intifada,” and “There!” I was exposed to ferocious cries of “Please stay!” The only solution is an intifada revolution. ”
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While the United States is still reeling from the New Year's Day massacre in New Orleans, where 14 people were killed and dozens more injured in a violent truck attack by terrorists supporting ISIS, activists who want to globalize the intifada It seems that their aspirations are alive and well. on our shores. Especially since the day after the New Orleans attack, hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in New York City's Times Square, calling for an “intifada revolution.”
Anti-Israel demonstrators demonstrate in New York on October 5, 2024, ahead of the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack. (Adam Gray, Fox News Digital)
The grotesque incitement to violence outside the hospital did not end with the chant. “Where are the hostages? Where are they? Go find them,” one demonstrator wearing a Hamas al-Qassam Brigades headband sneered at counter-protesters.
This is not the first time Within Our Lifetime has staged an outrageous protest outside a New York City hospital. Last year, the same group protested outside Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side. The crowd erupted into loud cries of “shame on you” in response to the hospital's suspicion of “complicity in genocide.” One of the organizers decided to distract the critically ill patients inside, shouting over a loudspeaker: “Make sure they can hear you. They're in the window.”
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After work I passed by Tisch Hospital. Banners and stickers lined the sidewalks. The snow-covered car's windshield bore an inverted triangle symbol increasingly used to identify and target Israelis and Jews. A leaflet produced by Within Our Lifetime was found abandoned at a nearby brewery. The title of the page read, “In our lives: Points of unity.”
The photo shows a poster handed out by anti-Israel protesters to students in a modern Israeli history class at Columbia University on Tuesday. (@LishiBaker from X)
The document asserts that Palestinians are a “colonized people” who have the right to “resist the Zionist occupation” and “by any means necessary” to “white supremacist” Zionists. . There is no doubt that violence is one of those methods. Did such measures include the barbaric slaughter, rape, and kidnapping witnessed by the world in southern Israel on October 7th?
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Another paragraph in the leaflet tells adherents of 'Within Our Lifetime' that the 'settler-colonist' Zionists will not tolerate any 'cooperation and dialogue' under any circumstances and that they will carry out strict 'opposition'. He warned that “normalization” policies must prevail.
Sometimes we wonder if the people shouting genocidal slogans in our streets and on our college campuses have any meaning in their words. Maybe they're just jumping on the bandwagon, or maybe they're just ignorant. But when those chants are shouted proudly, publicly, and unashamedly, perhaps it's time to take them at their word.
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