Earlier this month, anti-Israeli contingent in New York City fell to agonizing falls. Literally.
Outside Tisch Hospital, a mile from the United Nations in New York, hundreds of activists gathered for a “Sick of Genocide” protest organized by the Hamas apologist group Within Our Lifetime. Speakers at the rally demanded the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of a hospital in Gaza who is under investigation for suspected involvement in terrorist activities.
Hospital visitors and patients, hoping for calm and peace during their recovery, were instead subjected to ferocious cries of “We don’t want Zionists here,” “child killers,” “Abolish Israel,” “globalize the intifada,” and “There is only one solution: revolution intifada.”
While the United States is still reeling from the New Year’s Day massacre in New Orleans, where an ISIS-backed terrorist killed 14 people and wounded dozens in a violent truck attack, it appears that these activists’ desire to globalize the intifada is alive and well on our shores. Especially since the day after the attack in New Orleans, several hundred protesters gathered in Times Square in New York demanding an “intifada revolution”.
Anti-Israel protesters protest in New York on October 5, 2024, ahead of the anniversary of the October 7 attacks by Hamas. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)
The grotesque incitement of violence in front of the hospital did not end with chanting. One protester, wearing a Hamas Al-Qassam Brigade headband, sneered at counter-protesters: “Where are your hostages? Where are they? Go look for them.”
This is not the first time that Within Our Lifetime has organized outrageous protests in front of hospitals in New York. Last year, the same group protested outside the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side. Loud cries of “Shame” could be heard from the crowd because of the hospital’s alleged “complicity in genocide”. Determined to disturb the seriously ill patients inside, one organizer yelled into a megaphone: “Make sure they hear you. They’re through the window.”
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After work, I passed Tisch Hospital. Banners and stickers lined the pavement. An inverted triangle – a symbol increasingly used to identify and target Israelis and Jews – was drawn on the windshield of a snow-covered car. The flyer, produced by Within Our Lifetime, was left discarded at a nearby bodega. The headline on the page read: “Inside Our Lives: Points of Unity.”
Pictured is a poster handed to students by anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University’s History of Modern Israel class on Tuesday. (@LishiBaker on X)
The Palestinians, the document claims, are a “colonized people” who have the right to “resist the Zionist occupation” and Zionist “white supremacy” “by any means necessary.” Violence is undoubtedly one of those tools. Did those means also include the kind of barbaric slaughter, rape and kidnapping that the world witnessed in southern Israel on October 7?
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Another passage from the leaflet warned Within Our Lifetime supporters that under no circumstances should “settler-colonial” Zionists be recognized in any “cooperation and dialogue” and that a strict policy of “anti-normalization” must prevail.
There are times when one wonders if those chanting genocidal slogans on our streets and on our university campuses mean what they say. Maybe they’re just jumping on the bandwagon or just plain ignorant. But when those cries are shouted proudly, publicly and without shame, maybe it’s time to take them at their word.
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