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‘This Is New York, Not Palestine, Not Gaza!’ Angry New Yorkers Confront Anti-Israel Protesters Across City
Anti-Israel protesters block the Holland Tunnel in New York City on Jan. 8, 2024. Source: X/Twitter
Anti-Israel protesters on Monday morning took to the streets of lower Manhattan in New York City, where they blocked access to drivers on four bridges, leading to hundreds of arrests and a miserable commute for thousands.
Hundreds of demonstrators — locking themselves together using zip ties and chanting slogans including “NYPD, KKK, IDF: They’re all the same!” — blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, and Holland Tunnel for over two hours.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said 325 people were arrested, with many facing misdemeanor charges.
Protest organizers, which included the Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a statement that “the protesters created — briefly, imperfectly — a physical analogue for the situation in Gaza, where there is no getting out.”
Videos posted on social media show scenes of complete traffic gridlock across the city, along with furious commuters who confronted protesters.
A construction worker is seen in videos posted on social media rolling down his windows asking the protesters to allow him to get to work. “There are people on the street,” a protester says. “Why?” the man asks. “Because we’re protesting the genocide in Gaza. We’re sorry for doing this,” the protester replies. “Get off the f—king road,” the driver then says in response.
Another man was filmed confronting protesters in a shoving match. “You’re disrupting traffic, idiots!” he says. “You can’t do that, that’s against the law!” As protesters continued to block his vehicle, the man explained he was trying to pick his daughter up. Other motorists can be heard saying “run them over!”
Videos also show a commuter yelling at protesters from his car window: “They ruined my day … This is New York, not Palestine, not Gaza!”
#NOW “This is New York, not Palestine, not Gaza!” a man shouts as Pro-Palestine protesters are getting arrested after blocking Holland Tunnel “They ruin my day? F them!” pic.twitter.com/POF6Am5rN1
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) January 8, 2024
The Holland Tunnel reopened around 10:30 am, and the last of the protests dispersed shortly before 11:30 am, the NYPD said on X/Twitter.
The demonstrations came after protesters on Saturday blocked freeway traffic in Seattle for several hours.
Recent anti-Israel demonstrations in New York have also taken place outside John F. Kennedy International Airport as well as inside Grand Central Terminal.
“If the world does not stop for Gaza, we will stop the world,” a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza said in a statement on X/Twitter.
Other anti-Israel groups around the country endorsed Monday’s actions and pledged more in the future.
“Disrupt everything. Shut it all down. #FreePalestine,” said People’s City Council — Los Angeles, an activist group based in the city, on X/Twitter.
In November, People’s City Council — which describes itself as an “abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the voice of the people through direct action” — organized a raucous protest outside the home of the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying group in the US. Protesters lit smoke bombs and called the AIPAC head a “baby killer.”
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US Kicks Out South Africa’s Hamas-Linked Ambassador
Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
i24 News – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday designated the South African ambassador to Washington Ebrahim Rasool as a Persona Non Grata, branding Rasool a “race-bating politician.”
The decision comes after Rasool made the inflammatory allegation that Trump was “leading global white supremacist” movement.
A known supporter of the genocidal Palestinian group Hamas, Rasool even boasted that he owned a keffiyeh signed by late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
South Africa filed a claim with the International Court of Justice, alleging that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza during its ongoing war against Hamas, a charge both Israel and the US regard as slanderous and antisemitic.
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Palestinians Report 9 Dead as IDF Strikes Drone-Operating Terror Squad in Northern Gaza
Illustrative. A drone that Israeli troops recovered in southern Israel that the military said entered Israeli airspace from the Gaza Strip two days earlier, on August 13, 2021. Photo: Israel Defense Forces.
i24 News – An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson confirmed on Saturday a strike targeting a Gazan terror squad in Beit Lahiya; Palestinian sources claimed that at least nine people were killed.
The IDF’s statement says the incident started with the identification of “two terrorists operating a drone that posed a threat to IDF troops in the area.”
Following the elimination of the two jihadists in a targeted strike, “several other terrorists gathered up the drone operating equipment and entered a vehicle,” according to the IDF.
The remainder of the terror squad was then targeted by an additional strike.
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Syria: At Least 3 Dead in Blast, Cause Unclear
Illustrative. A man inspects a damaged car in Latakia, after hundreds were reportedly killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers, Syria, March 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Haidar Mustafa
i24 News – A blast occurred in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia on Saturday, killing at least three people and leaving 12 others wounded, local media reported. The cause was unclear.
“The blast in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Latakia city has so far resulted in three deaths and 12 injured,” state news agency SANA cited provincial authorities as saying, adding that “civil defense teams and residents are still searching for others injured and missing.”
While Latakia has been the target of Israeli strikes against Hezbollah and Iranian terrorists, there were no early indications that Saturday’s incident represented an IDF attack.
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