( NYPost )
An anti-Israel protest erupted into violence and mayhem as a swarm of demonstrators flooded a primarily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.
One person was arrested after dozens of agitators chanting “Zionists go to hell” and waving Palestinian flags descended on Borough Park to protest a real estate event, according to police and reports.
“How many kids did you kill today?” anti-Israel protesters chanted to the beat of a snare drum, as some flashed Jewish residents the middle finger, the Times of Israel reported.
The demonstration, organized by anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda, gathered to protest what it claimed was Palestinian land being sold off to the Jewish state, the group shared in a post on X Monday afternoon.
Amid the chaos, the protest organizer yelled, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” through a megaphone as others shouted, “Settlers, settlers, go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” the outlet reported.
At one point, the dueling groups converged, and a brawl ignited with screams in the background as police forcefully separated the sparring crowd, according to videos shared on X.
Local leaders condemned the protest Monday night when plans for the controversial event spread on social media, with many calling on the city and police to put a stop to demonstrators gathering in the Jewish neighborhood.
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) blasted protesters for targeting Borough Park “simply because it is Jewish.”
“It should come as a shock to no one that the pro-Hamas mob targeting Jews and promising to ‘flood’ Boro Park has descended into violence,” he posted to X Tuesday night.
“Violence is not a bug but a feature of the so-called ‘Free Palestine’ movement, which has no desire to free Palestinians from Hamas.”
Activist group End Jew Hatred called out other city leaders for failing to “stand up” against the anti-Israel protesters.
“Hamas apologists and supporters, cloaked in the tired and well-worn pretense of supporting ‘Palestine,’ showed their true nature as violent thugs looking for any reason to attack Jews,” the group said in a statement.
Charges are pending against the one protestor taken into custody, police said.
Countless demonstrations organized by anti-Israel activists have erupted in the Big Apple since the Palestinian terror group Hamas attacked the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.
The latest protest flared just hours after Hamas made a ghoulish announcement confirming that its youngest hostages, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, 2 and 5, and their mother, Shiri Bibas, are dead and their bodies will be returned to Israel this week.
Bibas and her boys quickly became symbols of the horrors of the terrorist attack.
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