Excited New Yorkers and tourists packed the Big Apple sidewalks Thursday for the 97th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — only for the festivities to grind to a halt when anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protestors glued their hands to the middle of 6th Avenue and covered themselves in fake blood.
NY Post However, the family fun was abruptly interrupted at 11 a.m. when several protesters – wearing white jumpsuits emblazoned with inflammatory slogans such as “colonialism,” “ethnic cleansing” and “fascism” – forced the parade to be temporarily halted.
The demonstrators marched down 6th Avenue grasping a large sign reading, “Liberation for Palestine and Planet” and shouting anti-Israel slogans. “Free Palestine! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” one of the protesters yelled, using a phrase widely accepted to be an antisemitic call to eradicate Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters were spotted handing out “Killed by Israel” flyers as chaos erupted at the end of the Big Apple’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.
A handful of people could be seen dishing out the posters to parade-goers as hundreds of protesters stormed the end of the annual family spectacular in Midtown Manhattan.
Some of the flyer-wielding protesters also tried to coax the Thanksgiving revelers into waving the posters around amid the disarray. The flyers, which were designed like missing persons posters, were headed by the words “killed” and “murdered.”
At least one featured the image of two young Palestinian children who protesters say were “brutally murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces.” A number of the protesters, who shielded their faces with bandanas, also taped the fliers frantically around light poles.
Several then pretended to be dead on the ground while others walked around pouring fake blood over their heads – as a loud chorus of “boos” came from parade spectators.
The rowdy band of demonstrators then dramatically glued their hands to the asphalt. As NYPD officers tried to move the group, one of the protesters cried: “I’m glued down I can’t get up.”
“We need a cease-fire,” he screeched while still being unglued and carted away. “The Palestinians deserve the right to return to their ancestral land.” “There’s an ongoing genocide and our planet is dying,” another said.
One masked woman in an “intifada” shirt held a holiday-themed sign saying: “What’s your favorite Thanksgiving side? I hear it’s genocide.”
The demonstrators continued chanting while some were placed in handcuffs. The NYPD confirmed that several were taken into custody but could not provide an exact number Thursday evening.
“It’s pissing me off,” complained a parade attendee named Greg, who was visiting from Philadelphia. “Do it somewhere else. Not today, they’re ruining the parade. They super-glued their hands to the street. These people worked hard to be in this parade.”
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Bronx) called the disruption “sick.” “Protesters are disrupting a parade attended by thousands of children?! It’s beyond the pale,” Dinowitz told The Post. “They are pro-Hamas and anti-Jew. They are for the terrorists.”
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice chairman of the NY Board of Rabbis, also condemned the demonstration. “No one at these protests ever seems to condemn Hamas. They fault the victims, not the perpetrators,” Potasnik said.
“History has taught us that hatred starts against the Jews but doesn’t end with the Jews. These people have no boundaries. They protest on the sabbath [and now] Thanksgiving.”
A Post employee who was enjoying the festivities with his 13-year-old son outside the News Corp building in Midtown said they had to retreat into the lobby of the building when several protestors in the crowd began getting disruptive – standing atop tall planters waving large Palestinian flags and shouting “genocide” and “how can you celebrate?”
The foul attempt at ruining the day came after a poster, using a photo of half-Palestinian supermodel Bella Hadid at a pro-Palestinian rally a few years ago, advertised plans to disrupt the family event.
“We’re shutting down NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade,” said the disturbing poster.
Soon after the parade ended, at least 400 protesters then gathered at a pre-arranged meeting spot in Madison Square Park and marched toward Macy’s in nearby Herald Square, shutting down traffic as they shouted “Long Live Intifada” and “American public do you see? Your taxes fund our misery.”
Another protester in a keffiyeh — a traditional black and white Arab scarf — leaned through the window and blasted the cab’s horn. Other anti-Israel demonstrators masked in keffiyehs were also seen climbing a box truck on 6th Avenue to wave the Palestinian flag.
Other chants included, “From Palestine to the Phillippines, stop the US war machine,” and “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go.” As cars on West 42nd Street between 7th Avenue were brought to a standstill, a protester jumped on top of a yellow cab with a Palestinian flag.
The demonstrators also defaced the New York Public Library, leaving handprints in red paint all over the two largest pillars at the entrance on 5th Avenue, as well as scrawling “Free Palestine” in green spray paint.
They also slapped up stickers that read: “From the US to Palestine, abolish the settler state,” “Zionism is terrorism” and “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza”.
Marc Latham, 41, traveled from Delaware to see the cherished Thanksgiving Day Parade, but quipped that he saw “three parades.”
“I came for the parade. I’ve seen three parades — the balloons, the protesters gluing their hands to the street and being led off in handcuffs, and now this protest,” Latham said. “I just shake my head,” he continued. “Happy Thanksgiving.”
The Tasmanian Devil says
Easy fix!
One jackhammer at each hand, one 120-pound weight on each hand, drop them off at the nearest mosque, repair the street, everyone normal is happy.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
people that is the invitation to beat. When they glue their hands on the street then anyone can do all they want because their hands are glued. Use this tip and you will notice that they glue themselves somewere else and not in front of your hause. No bull when one is glued and cannot move then just take a piss and go, works great.
The Woke Ender says
𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘴 narcissists this lot is; much the very same spirit as Just Stop Oil and its worldwide spectacle of stupidity.
Families aren’t traveling halfway across the country standing in the cold to see these giant crybabies preach their non-controversial bullshit “message” as if anyone really gives a shit. 🖕🏻
They use buzzwords like “racism,” “genocide,” “imperialism” to imply that the world’s only Jewish state has no right or reason to exist. For your information leftist retards, there imperialism, genocide, and racism being carried out by the Muslims against the Jews, yet the loudest voices in the room fail to notice this self-evident truth. Riddle me this: in a world where there’s millions of Arab Muslims and so few Jews, 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺? 🤔
Leftism 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 is a mental disorder; transforming Western society into an idiocracy with each passing day, further corrupting domestic and foreign policy when it’s passed through the lens of Marxist rhetoric.🤦🏻♂️
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Heres your answer. The marxist or socialist allways sides with islam or why did hitler get a visit from the gran mufti?. The socialist likes total control and he allways needs an enemy (we the people) to fight. The socialist also thinks that the muslim will vote for him but he forgot that the muslim will make his own party like the denk party in sweden, this all will see shortly then in england and germany they are trying to get it started. This means that our democracy has a islam party in it and that is like taking a fish and a cat saying that they are best friends, Wont work.
BLR says
Hurry on 2024 the might of the right is waiting to board that Trump train to sanity land .
ME Infidel says
VERY stupid white liberals are at the center of yet another protest…again! Rush used to call them, “long-haired, maggot-infested, red-diaper-doper babies” (who were fans of Michael Moore). Pretty well nails it.
BareNakedIslam says
I still miss Rush.
Classy Infidel says
Like the Greta crowd, people are tired of them. The more they try and the less their message gets through. A victory for Israel and a defeat for Hamas.
Doug Mayfield says
The left hates and fears freedom and individual rights. That’s why they ally themselves with followers of Islam (FOI), their ‘blood brothers and sisters’, who they know will help them try to destroy free countries such as America and Israel in order to establish the socialist police state world wide that the left so desperately desires. It is clear that the Democrats, the Biden administration, will do nothing to try to stop this and will do everything they can to advance the cause of socialist slavery. The left deserves our contempt and if necessary, that is if our government continues to side with them, the use of retaliatory force to defend ourselves.
Bugsy278 says
The left will learn, but the hard way. The first western country to fall to islam will show them, just like in Iran. The idiot leftists that aided in the takeover, when they were no longer needed, were soon jailed and killed. They are on opposing sides. Islam IS a far-right authoritarian way to govern, so they won’t want these leftarded morons throwing a wrench in the gears.
Wazzup says
Leave em there, and soak them with pigs blood