The US flag was set on fire to calls of "Death to America" during the pro-Palestinian worldwide protest in New York City on Monday, according to footage released by journalists, activists, and pro-Palestinian organizations.
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.
A Zionist protester got his American flag lit on fire. Officers quickly put it out but a bit of the flames caught on the person shirt, a Palestine protester quickly put it out. The Zionist later asks for footage on who did it and to arrest them but no one witnessed the person. pic.twitter.com/OfK0tktehR
— Luis.Documents (@mfsgottenshook) April 15, 2024
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.”
Anti-Israel protester shouts “Death to America! Death to Israel!” at counter-protester holding an American flag.@FrontlinesTPUSA@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/8MnRpHrN2B
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) April 15, 2024
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.
NOW: A protester sets an American flag on fire outside Brooklyn Borough Hall as protesters rally on the steps pic.twitter.com/aZy7ZzqDzP
— katie smith (@probablyreadit) April 15, 2024
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.
WATCH: Today I went to the pro-HAMAS rally in NYC. I confronted terrorist supporters who were waving Hezbollah flags and wearing HAMAS bandanas while they were chanting in support of “free Palestine”. They recognized me as a Jewish journalist and activist, surrounded me and… pic.twitter.com/03VwwMVxwm
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
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.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: I went to the HAMAS rally in NYC today and encountered a black man wearing a HAMAS bandana. As you can see in other videos I posted, people were also waving Hezbollah flags there as well.This is on Wall Street in NEW YORK CITY! 9/11 2.0 is bound to happen. pic.twitter.com/ZI3QZVknFB
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 15, 2024
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.
#NOW Police arrest Pro-palestine protester and carry him out during a WOL Demonstration on Wall Street.Video by Olga Fe Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/gGbZqJ76j5
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) April 15, 2024
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 through City Point Mall. In front of Borough Hall, a protester held up a sign depicting a person with a rifle, with the title “Bring the Genocide Home.”
Within Our Lifetime stated that dozens of its members were arrested, including their leader Nerdeen Kiswani. She was released later that night to a mob with red flares, and to the background of a Hezbollah flag. She immediately led a chant declaring “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution."
NYPD targeted, brutalized, and arrested 50+ protesters today including WOL Chair @NerdeenKiswani who was released with a smile on her face. Folks were released to a flood of energy, rejoining our community chanting and protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza pic.twitter.com/8rsgO6kfrC
— Within Our Lifetime (@WOLPalestine) April 16, 2024
New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said that the force has zero tolerance to lawlessness and plots to sow chaos.
“Yet another organized, coordinated attempt to shut down critical infrastructure,” ” Daughtry wrote on X on Monday regarding a blockade on the Brooklyn Bridge. “Disrupting the evening rush hour commute while hard-working New Yorkers are trying to get home from work? Completely unacceptable!”
Kiswani mocked Daughtry on social media, saying that the march continued after she was arrested and that the arrests caused greater traffic congestion.
“You wasted city resources, time, and didn’t even achieve your goal of stopping us [because] you’ll never be able to,” said Kiswani.
The pro-Palestinian activist was arrested also on Saturday, accusing the NYPD of tearing off her Hijab during detainment. The NYPD denied the allegations.