Hezbollah flag flies, US flag burns as calls for death to US sound at NYC protest

• Published date: 16 April 2024
• Author: MICHAEL STARR
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The American flag of a counter-protester was set on fire and had to be put out by nearby police officers, according to footage published by the Independent journalist going by the handle Luis Documents

Moments after the fire was extinguished, a masked man emerged from the crowd to scream "Death to America." The same man has also been seen in a Frontlines Turning Point USA video shouting "Death to America, death to Israel."

A protester burned another American flag in front of Borough Hall as demonstrators chanted "Shut it down," according to a video published by journalist Katie Smith.

Pro-Palestinian activists continued to decry the United States in a video by right-wing political activist Laura Loomer, who told her, "America is a terrorist state." Another man held up an Israeli flag riddled with holes.

Further, New York Anti-Israel protesters were seen with terrorist organization paraphernalia in several of the videos, including a woman with a Hezbollah flag. The woman was seen waving the flag in the Luis and Frontlines footage, and the pro-terrorism activist waved the flag in Loomer's face in her video.

Loomer also highlighted that one man was wearing a green Hamas bandana, one was in a red keffiyeh, and a Hamas bandana was seen by a Freedom News journalist being arrested by the police.

The pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime posted a video on Telegram of demonstrators calling for the Intifada as they marched through the city and chanted "Long live the intifada."

Protesters marched on the New York Stock Exchange, Broadway, Barclay's Center, Borough Hall, and...