Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters name for ‘intifada revolution’ in Times Square shortly after New Orleans automotive assault

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters name for ‘intifada revolution’ in Times Square shortly after New Orleans automotive assault


Jan 02, 2025 08:16 AM IST

Demonstrators have been seen carrying indicators with messages resembling “End All US help to Israel,” “End Zionism,” and “No battle on Iran.”

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters waved Palestinian flags and known as for “intifada revolution” after gathering in Times Square on New Year’s Day shortly after suspected terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed a pickup truck bearing an ISIS flag into New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The sickening assault killed at the very least 15 individuals. The 42-year-old suspect was later gunned down by cops in a gunfight.

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters name for ‘intifada revolution’ in Times Square shortly after New Orleans automotive assault (@luketress/X)

‘We shall be right here each single yr’

The Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People’s Forum organised the Times Square protest. Chants of “there is just one resolution: Intifada revolution” might be heard as demonstrators gathered simply hours after the suspected terrorist assault.

“We’re sending you again to Europe you white b–ches,” one feminine demonstrator clad in a keffiyeh shouted at counter-protestors exterior the occasion, video exhibits. “Go again to Europe! Go again to Europe!”

One speaker yelled by way of a megaphone, “2024 was a yr of wrestle towards the crime of Zionism.”

“We shall be right here each single yr for era after era till complete liberation and return,” they mentioned, based on Times of Israel.

Demonstrators have been seen carrying indicators with messages resembling “End All US help to Israel,” “End Zionism,” and “No battle on Iran.” The protestors chanted, “We will honor all our martyrs.”

After the automotive assault in New Orleans, as many as three improvised pipe bombs have been discovered close by within the tourist-drawing French Quarter. One was found in Jabbar’s truck. The FBI is now looking for any doable accomplices.

Jabbar was a US-born navy veteran who lived in a trailer-park group in Houston the place principally Muslim immigrants reside, New York Post reported. Last yr, he travelled to Egypt for 10 days. Jabbar served lively responsibility within the US Army from March 2007 till January 2015. He was additionally a reservist from 2015 till July 2020.

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