Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalize NYPD vehicles with anti-Semitic slogans outside New York Times building

Pro-Palestinian protesters defaced two New York Police Department (NYPD) vehicles Thursday evening in front of the New York Times building in Manhattan, PIX11 reported, a local news network.

Protesters spray-painted “Free Gaza” and “Fuck IDF KKK” on police cars, and one protester placed a sign next to a police car asking if “IDF Tik Tok girls will teach the SS soldiers their dances in hell.” seconds on PIX11. Protesters broke the back window of at least one police cruiser and one protester set a smoke bomb next to police officers watching the protests.

“On Thursday, November 9, 2023, at approximately 6:00 p.m., a scheduled demonstration took place in the vicinity of West 40th Street and 8th Avenue within the boundaries of the Midtown South Precinct,” the NYPD told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “During the demonstration, two NYPD vehicles were flagged and windows at 620 8th Avenue were vandalized. No arrests have been made and the incident remains under investigation.”

New York: Pro-Palestinian rioters vandalized a New York police vehicle in their protest to coincide with the anniversary of Kristallnacht. pic.twitter.com/FT9pmb2Z4D

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 10, 2023

The protest initially began in front of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, where students were participating in a march. seconds on ABC7 NY. Protesters made their way to the New York Times building, where some people staged a sit-in while others handed out counterfeit newspapers with the tagline “Crimes of New York,” PIX11 reported.

Protesters spray-painted slogans on the building’s windows, including “blood on your hands” and “free Palestine,” the New York Daily News reported. Others gathered inside the building and read a long list of names that the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says belong to people who have died in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, according to PIX11.

Some protesters appeared to have temporarily blocked the entrance to the New York Times building while at least 30 people chanted inside the lobby, the Daily News reported. The New York Times claimed in an internal email to employees that the protests were “peaceful” and that “no entrances were blocked,” according to PIX11.

Pro-Palestinian you protest have appeared Through the nation since then Hamas he launched his brutal terrorist attack against Israel on October 7. Some of the you protest have become violent, resulting in a fight outside the Museum of Tolerance and another leading to a physical altercation which caused the death of a Jewish man.

Anti-Semitic attacks have he jumped more than 300% in New York City after the Hamas terror attacks, a trend that reflects a national to increase in antisemitism and hate crimes over the past month.

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