Anti Israel protesters took to the streets of major cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip.
A protest that started in a neighborhood in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, which has a large Arabic-speaking community, continued through the streets for several hours on Saturday afternoon. Footage on social media showed people had climbed up the poles of street lights to wave flags while others set off fireworks. Some protesters walked onto the Interstate 278 shutting down traffic in at least on direction, according to video posted online.
In Washington, thousands of protesters streamed from the Washington Monument and to the National Archives. In Philadelphia, demonstrators filled Rittenhouse Square to decry U.S. support for Israel.
Thousands of people shut down traffic on a major thoroughfare in west Los Angeles as they marched two miles from outside the federal building to the Israeli consulate. The protesters waved signs that said “free Palestine” and shouted “long live intifada,” or uprising.
Thousands rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to stand with Palestinians calling for the end of the occupation, settler violence and colonialism. One day soon #Palestine will be free. #FreePalestine #Nakba73 pic.twitter.com/l9wxmssoi2
— Murad Awawdeh (@HeyItsMurad) May 16, 2021
Protesters Blocking Traffic on Highway @CitizenApp
Gowanus Expy & Fort Hamilton Pkwy 4:57:09 PM EDT
This folks walked all the way from Williamsburg to Bay Ridge due to sabbath. This is what allyship looks like. pic.twitter.com/t9e914tG7b
— yung coconut 🥥 (@hyeyoothere) May 16, 2021
Those Jews went on Shabbos??
Its disgusting how these animals want there own nation to be wiped out! total Chilul Hashem!
please dont call them jews.
Better you should ask why they would go even were it a weekday. The short answer is that they’re Jews in name only.
when the arabs do honor killings by bombing and killing jews is okay. But for Jews to kill them in order to get back their land israel which belongs to them, is not okay?! Somethings really messed up in their heads!
!באש ובמים- עם ישראל חי
Where have all those bleeding hearts been as hundreds of thousands have been and are being slaughtered in Syria ???
It’s coming..