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Anti-Israel Protesters Swarm New York City Fundraiser for Kamala Harris, Several Arrested
Illustrative: A scene from the anti-Israel protest that took place outside the exhibit “Nova: Oct. 7 6:29 AM, The Moment Music Stood Still” in New York City on June 10, 2024. Photo: Screenshot
Anti-Israel protesters crashed a Democratic Party rally and fundraiser for US Vice President and 2024 presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Wednesday night.
Roughly 300 protesters lined the streets of W. 135th St. and Broadway in New York City, brandishing signs accusing the Biden administration of supporting a so-called “genocide” in the Gaza Strip and demanding a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.
Footage circulating on X/Twitter showed the agitators storming inside the event, harassing attendees including New York City Mayor Eric Adams and accusing them of endorsing “genocide.”
“Make sure you vote! Make sure you vote!” Adams said as security escorted some of the demonstrators out of the event.
“I don’t mind you being across the street. I don’t mind that you want to raise your voice,” the mayor added. “Hold onto all of that anger until after November. November you need to be laser-focused on one thing.”
Watch: pro-Palestinian protestors broke inside the DNC fundraiser and began harassing Mayor Adams and other politicians.
This is political intimidation and goes against the fundamental principles of our democracy.
Have we learned nothing after the assassination attempt? pic.twitter.com/wtdRtuiELV
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 15, 2024
The demonstration escalated into violence when around 50 agitators stormed the rally’s afterparty in a nearby restaurant. Roughly 25 participants of the rally were in attendance at the afterparty, according to the New York Post. The angry protesters screamed and pointed fingers at the event’s attendees, demanding that they support a “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas.
Other protesters physically confronted, attacked, and screamed obscenities at police officers. Swarms of protesters surrounded the officers, banging drums, blowing whistles, and chanting slogans such as “no justice, no peace!”
A corral of officers subdued and arrested a handful of the agitators. Officers clashed with the swarm of anti-Israel demonstrators, struggling to clear out the area. Some of the protesters reportedly tossed smoke bombs towards officers.
Authorities were recorded chasing down one protester after he initiated a violent encounter with the officers. Another demonstrator was seen on video posted to social media assaulting an officer with a cardboard sign, causing officers to apprehend and handcuff her on the ground.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) ultimately took 14 demonstrators into custody, according to the New York Daily News.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine Protesters STORM into Democratic After party event following Kamala Harris Campaign, SMOKE BOMBS set off at the outdoor restaurant, MASS ARRESTS pic.twitter.com/5BVEGhzrq0
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) August 15, 2024
Within Our Lifetime, a radical anti-Israel activist group, took responsibility for the demonstration and condemned the NYPD for arresting violent agitators.
“After a noise demo disrupting the Democratic Party’s NYC campaign launch for Killer Kamala on 8.14, the NYPD ruthlessly beat and arrested protestors in Harlem,” Within Our Lifetime wrote on X/Twitter. “Dems want you to believe they support us. They are just waiting for you to look away before cracking down on our movement and continuing the genocide in Palestine.”
In the months following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre throughout southern Israel, pro-Hamas agitators have disrupted political events, fundraisers, speeches, and rallies, calling for an end to the ongoing war between the Jewish state and the Palestinian terrorist group.
Radical anti-Israel groups are expected to hold massive demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, demanding that Harris support a ceasefire in Gaza as well as an arms embargo against the Jewish state.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.