Among the pro-Palestinian zealots who have shut down the streets of New York this week have been a host of privileged, often wealthy, including one who can be traced back to former President Barack Obama.
As previously reported, pro-Palestinian fanatics blocked traffic on Monday, causing chaos and confusion among commuters across the city.
“Monday's protests were carefully coordinated by at least six anti-Israel groups to cause maximum disruption, with out-of-Manhattan traffic blocked on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and on the New Jersey-bound lanes of the Holland Tunnel.” New York Post notes
New York driver takes on road-blocking pro-Hamas misfits and becomes an instant hero https://t.co/dpLDNlDaOJ road @BIZPACRevision
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According to the Post, many of the fans come from “privileged” backgrounds, attended the best schools in the country and live in the city's best neighborhoods.
Take Naay Idriss, a 25-year-old Columbia graduate and NYU graduate student with a history of bad behavior.
She “previously admitted to writing 'f**k' over the word Israel and 'free Palestine' on a discarded Israeli mail bag when she worked in the mail room at NYU's Bobst Library,” the Post notes.
And worse, the day after the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, he told a wreath of pro-Palestinian fans in Times Square that the terrorist attack was “the beginning of our victory “.
Then there's Ilana Cruger-Zaken, a 36-year-old graduate student at NYU's Center for Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, who reportedly studies the Judeo-Neo-Aramaic dialects of northeastern Kurdistan.
“The married mom celebrated her arrest, posting a picture of the Manhattan Bridge protest on Instagram and adding, 'And we're going to do it again,'” according to the Post.
WATCH Naye Idriss incite an anti-Israel crowd with classic Nazi rhetoric: Israel is 'a cancer in the Arab region'. Idriss then states, “Zionism… is in ruins and we are contributing to its downfall.” Actually, no. You're just making life miserable for New Yorkers. https://t.co/vLfWKpm4e3 pic.twitter.com/aLUhpOJGds
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) January 9, 2024
Next up are NYU law graduate Daniel Kim, a 28-year-old who works for a firm, Bronx Defenders, that defends criminals for free, and Yale graduate Lina Cohn, who reportedly is a filmmaker whose previous work has received attention from The New York. time
“Another out-of-town Ivy League protester was Trava Tam, 29, of Roswell, Georgia,” notes the Post. “She is a population scientist at the real estate company Zillow who was a Fulbright Scholar in 2016 and has a master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.”
“Another Ivy League graduate issued a desk ticket was Azani Creeks of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, who was at Harvard Divinity School, and is now attacking the works of the anti-Wall Street group, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project,” according to the Post.
Next is Pratt Institute Gender and Sexuality Professor Ann Holder, 66, who in 2020 participated in an “academic strike” during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Two years later, reportedly bought a $1.2 million condo in one of New York's premier apartments. prosperous neighborhoods
Then there's Sunita Viswanath, who, in addition to working for New York Mayor Eric Adam's transition team, was also praised by the Obama White House years ago for being the so-called “champion of change”.
“Viswanath, 55, was arrested with her husband, Stephan Shaw, and said she spent 15 hours in detention before being released, then posted pictures of herself on X at the Bridge protest in Brooklyn,” the Post notes.
He was one of the protesters who disrupted business as usual in New York! He was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. Spent 15 hours in jail and just got home.
We won't stop until there is one #Ceasefire_In_Gaza_Nowan end of the #occupationand the end of US funding of #genocide. #NotInMyName https://t.co/XTO8xiRzrU— Sunita Viswanath (@SunitaSunitaV) January 9, 2024
Perhaps she is the most privileged of all fans. First, she owns a luxury home in Cobble Hill. Second, he has a second home on two acres of land in New Mexico.
When contacted by the Post, she stated that her actions were not anti-Semitic and that her husband is Jewish.
“For my husband and so many like him, the best way to be Jewish is to stand up for justice and peace and an end to the bombing right now,” she said.
Next up is Eli Coplan, a 31-year-old “artist” who lives in Brooklyn but whose family owns land in California and Colorado.
“Her parents also own a nearly $4 million home in La Jolla, California, which includes a spacious 51,000 square feet,” notes the Post. “They bought the 1973 home for $1.825 million in the early 2000s through a trust, according to public records. They also have a home worth at least $1.7 million in Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Meanwhile, his mother is a former board member of the ACLU, and his grandparents hosted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at home in 1968.
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