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Fifth Column

‘They’re in Wall Street, they’re in the White House’: Thousands protest Israel in NYC led by Mahmoud Khalil

2025-08-17

[IsraelTimes] Protesters call to ‘stop starving Gaza’ at New York’s largest pro-Palestinian protest in recent months; Mahmoud Khalil tells crowd Israel ‘deliberately’ killing Gazans with US tax money

Several thousand protesters rallied against Israel in New York City on Saturday, in the largest pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protest held in the city in recent months.

The demonstration, dubbed “Stop Starving Gaza: Mass March for Humanity,” took place in front of the New York Public Library in Manhattan, next to Bryant Park, and was organized by an array of Arab-led and far-left socialist activist groups.

In the days leading up to Saturday’s protest, organizers said it was being backed by more than 200 groups from around the US, and that they would be busing in participants from six states and Washington DC. k

The crowd beat spoons against pans

…ooooh, scary! Except that it’s been done before by people who risked their lives to protest in the cause of liberty, instead of getting paid in the cause of evil…

and held signs demanding to “Stop starving Gaza,” Stop killing journalists,” and “Defeat imperialist/Zionist genocidal war-makers.”

Truly, truly profound. And definitely persuasive. Truly.

Palestinian flags waved above the crowds of people as they marched, chanting “End the siege on Gaza now!”

Brian Becker, of the far-left Answer Coalition, told the crowd that “the US government is standing with the fascist regime in Tel Aviv, but we, the American people, stand with you, the Palestinian people.”

“They’re in Wall Street, they’re in the White House, they’re in the center of imperialism,” Becker said.

Some in the crowd answered with shouts of “shame” and “murderers.”

Just like the recently arrested Pink Shirted Subway Sandwich Man. Could he be an Antifa fellow traveler, or even a cadre as well as a former DOJ lawyer?

The rally appeared to be the largest since the arrest of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil

…30, the Damascus-born Palestinian (with dual Algerian citizenship through his mother, daughter of Algerian revolutionaries) got a Masters in Paleo Protest from Columbia, where he applied his training fronting Apartheid Divest’s support of Hamas since 10/8/2023, which overlapped his unadmitted work as an UNWRA political affairs officer — that last supporting the government’s accusation of immigration fraud, while the pro-Hamas activism is accounted as supporting a listed terror organization. He is represented by 19 activist attorneys, including the ACLU. The case is now wending its way up to the US Supreme Court. Mr. Khalil worked his way through college in Beirut as an MI-6 vetted local staffer at the British embassy, which is how he met his future wife — hijabi Leb-American dentist Noor Abdalla, suggesting either Muslim Brotherhood or Hezbollah connections. No doubt it was for her sake he went to Columbia instead of Oxford…

in March mobilized several thousand protesters.

Khalil, who was released from a federal detention center in June, took part in Saturday’s protest and addressed the crowds outside the public library.

Is he trying to get himself expelled?

Israel is destroying Gaza “systematically, deliberately,” he declared to cheers of support. “And they’re doing it with American bombs, with American cover, with American tax money — your money.”

Khalil, who has justified October 7 and downplayed campus antisemitism, then led the crowd as it set off on a march through midtown Manhattan.

In the days leading up to Saturday’s protest, organizers said it was being backed by more than 200 groups from around the US, and that they would be busing in participants from six states and Washington DC.

Leading groups signed onto the protest included far-left outfits such as the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, the Democratic Socialists of America and CodePink, Arab-led groups including the lfuth Movement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Arab American Association of New York, as well as the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace

…founded by Hamas BDS activist Hatem Bazian, while its social media managers live in Lebanon and a large chunk of its funding comes from the Soros Open Society Foundations…

and various student groups.

There had been a decrease in major anti-Israel street protests in New York in recent months, but activists have begun a series of regular rallies ahead of the United Nations General Assembly that will take place in the city in September.

Related Facebook Reel: Identifying professional pro-Hamas protesters

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 NY Post:

Mahmoud Khalil quotes slain Al Jazeera correspondent allegedly aligned with Hamas at ‘March for Humanity’ protest

Notorious anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil showed up in NYC Saturday, quoting an alleged Hamas terrorist during a large protest in front of the New York Public Library.

Khalil, 30, stood on the library steps and gave a seven minute speech in which he talked about Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera correspondent who was killed during an Israeli missile strike last week.

Israel has said al-Sharif was running a Hamas terrorist cell, which he and Al Jazeera repeatedly denied.

Khalil recalled al-Sharif’s final words and proclaimed to the crowd of roughly 2,000 — at least one of whom was sporting the green headband worn by members of Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a wing of the terrorist group in the Gaza Strip — “The time is now, the bridges towards liberation start with us.”

The protestors marched from the library through the streets of Manhattan to Columbus Circle.

Posted by: trailing wife 2025-08-17 13:49

#4 "And they're in room with me RIGHT NOW!!!" /

Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2025-08-17 13:28

#3 ^For about 2000 years. But, now, we starting to take some of our own back.

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-08-17 06:43

#2 Jews are screwed

Posted by: Sonny 2025-08-17 06:30

#1 USG really screwed up with that one.

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-08-17 02:35

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