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Anti-Israel Protesters Get Violent After Police Prevent Them From Disrupting Met Gala in NYC

A police officer removes a Palestinian flag from the William Tecumseh Sherman monument as anti-Israel demonstrators attend a protest near the Met Gala on May 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Anti-Israel demonstrators turned violent on Monday night in New York City as they attempted to disrupt the 2024 MET Gala that was taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Violence broke out when the mob of more than 1,000 protesters were blocked by police from crashing the star-studded Met Gala as part of a “Day of Rage” protest organized by the Palestinian activist group Within Our Lifetime. Protesters held up leaflets that read “End the occupation of Palestine,” “Shut down the campuses,” “End the genocide,” and more.

Video shared on Instagram by the account Jew Hate Database showed a mob of anti-Israel demonstrators surrounding a man wearing a Star of David headscarf, stealing the scarf, and beating him near the Met Gala, an annual fundraiser which is held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition.

The clip showed one person screaming at the man “Get the f—k out of the way” as the group of demonstrators tried to make their way down the street. When the man stepped back slowly into a flowerbed, one of the protesters approached him and stole the Star of David headscarf from his head before fleeing. The mob continued to force the man backwards, but he managed to snatch back his headscarf from the angry protester. A fight then broke out, and several demonstrators were seen on camera repeatedly striking the man in the face and head before he managed to break free and flee the scene. A witness who filmed the attack from the opposite side of the street said she took the video to the local New York City Police Department (NYPD) precinct.

Jew Hate Database shared a second video on Monday night of another incident near the Met Gala in which a Jewish man was attacked for walking by a group of anti-Israel protesters while chanting “Am Israel Chai,” which means “long live Israel.”

 

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The crowd of protesters made multiple attempts from different streets to reach the Metropolitan Museum of Art but were repeatedly blocked off by police barricades. About two dozen anti-Israel demonstrators were reportedly arrested.

After police diverted the mob of activists toward Central Park and then blocked the exits, protesters vandalized a World War I memorial statue in the park and burned an American flag, the New York Post reported. They wrote “Gaza” in large black letters on the base of the 107th Infantry Memorial and placed on the statue’s bronze soldiers stickers of the Palestinian flag that read “Stop the Genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine.” Some of the protesters also reportedly climbed on top the statue, waved Palestinian flags, and draped the flag over the memorial.

The bronze statue of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in Grand Army Plaza in Central Park was also vandalized by the anti-Israel activists. They wrote “Free Gaza” in red letters on its base and placed a Palestinian flag on the statue.

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Treasure Trove explores the connection between errant arrows on Lag ba-Omer and comments that hit the mark

Are these kids the worst archers you have ever seen? Based on where their hands are, it is not obvious how the arrows will fly (which is probably a good thing, since most of them are facing each other). This 1910 postcard printed by the Hebrew Publishing Company of New York depicts the holiday of […]

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Israel’s Gantz Demands Gaza Day-After Plan By June 8, Threatens to Quit Cabinet

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at Reichman University on Nov. 23, 2021. Photo: Ariel Hermoni / IMoD

Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with Hamas.

Gantz told a press conference he wanted the war cabinet to form a six-point plan by June 8. If his expectations are not met, he said, he will withdraw his centrist party from the conservative premier’s broadened emergency coalition.

Gantz, a retired top Israeli general who opinion polls show is Netanyahu’s most formidable political rival, gave no date for the prospective walkout but his challenge could increase strains on an increasingly unwieldy wartime government.

Netanyahu appears outflanked in his own inner war cabinet, where he, Gantz and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant alone have votes. On Wednesday, Gallant demanded clarity on post-war plans and for Netanyahu to forswear any military reoccupation of Gaza.

If the prime minister were to do that, he would risk angering ultra-nationalist coalition parties that have called for Gaza to be annexed and settled. Losing them could topple Netanyahu, who before the war failed to enlist more centrist partners, given his trial on corruption charges he denies.

“Personal and political considerations have begun to penetrate the Holy of Holies of Israel‘s national security,” Gantz said. “A small minority has seized the bridge of the Israeli ship and is piloting it toward the rocky shoal.”

Gantz said his proposed six-point plan would include bringing a temporary U.S.-European-Arab-Palestinian system of civil administration for Gaza while Israel retains security control.

It would also institute equitable national service for all Israelis, including ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are now exempted from the military draft and have two parties in Netanyahu’s coalition determined to preserve the waiver.

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Israel Pushes Into New Parts of Northern Gaza, Recovers Another Slain Hostage

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp northern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo

Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war.

Israel’s forces also took over some ground in Rafah, a southern city next to the Egyptian border that is packed with displaced people and where the launch this month of a long-threatened incursion to crush hold-outs of Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas has alarmed Cairo and Washington.

In what Israeli media said was the result of intelligence gleaned during the latest incursions, the military announced the recovery of the body of a man who was among more than 250 hostages seized by Hamas in a cross-border rampage on Oct. 7 that triggered the war.

Ron Binyamin’s remains were located along with those of three other slain hostages whose repatriation was announced on Friday, the military said without providing further details.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas.

Israel has conducted renewed military sweeps this month of parts of northern Gaza where it had declared the end of major operations in January. At the time, it also predicted its forces would return to prevent a regrouping by the Palestinian Islamist group that rules Gaza.

One site has been Jabalia, the largest of Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps. On Saturday, troops and tanks edged into streets so far spared the ground offensive, residents said.

“Today is the most difficult in terms of the occupation bombardment, air strikes and tank shelling have going on almost non-stop,” said one resident in Jabalia, Ibrahim Khaled, via a chat app.

“We know of dozens of people, martyrs (killed) and wounded, but no ambulance vehicle can get into the area,” he told Reuters.

The Israeli military said its forces have continued to operate in areas across the Gaza Strip including Jabalia and Rafah, carrying out what it called “precise operations against terrorists and infrastructure.”

“The IAF (air force) continues to operate in the Gaza Strip, and struck over 70 terror targets during the past day, including weapons storage facilities, military infrastructure sites, terrorists who posed a threat to IDF troops, and military compounds,” the military said in a statement.

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Armed wings of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Fatah said fighters attacked Israeli forces in Jabalia and Rafah with anti-tank rockets, mortar bombs, and explosive devices already planted in some of the roads, killing and wounding many soldiers.

Israel’s military said 281 soldiers have been killed in fighting since the first ground incursions in Gaza on Oct 20.

In the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 1,200 people were killed. About 125 people are still being held in Gaza.

In Rafah, where Israeli tanks thrust into some of the eastern suburbs and clashed with Palestinian fighters there, residents said Israeli bombing from the air and ground persisted all night.

Israel says it must capture Rafah to destroy Hamas and ensure the country’s security.

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