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01 December 2023
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, holding flags and banners, gather in front of the illuminated Christmas tree of Rockefeller Center to stage a pro-Palestinian demonstration within the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in New York, United States on November 29, 2023
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, holding flags and banners, gather in front of the illuminated Christmas tree of Rockefeller Center to stage a pro-Palestinian demonstration within the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in New York, United States on November 29, 2023
From 'Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman,' by Emma Carlson Berne, illustrated by Giovanni Abeille
From 'Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman,' by Emma Carlson Berne, illustrated by Giovanni Abeille
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byThe Scroll

Protestors in masks and keffiyehs disrupted the Christmas-tree lighting in New York City’s Rockefeller Center Wednesday night and clashed with police as part of a “Flood the Tree Lighting for Gaza” rally, named in celebration of the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7. The journalist Julio Rosas, whose writeup of the protest you can read in Tablet, was at the scene and captured some choice moments on camera, including this video of a protestor carrying a flaming NYPD hat.

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From 'Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman,' by Emma Carlson Berne, illustrated by Giovanni Abeille
From 'Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman,' by Emma Carlson Berne, illustrated by Giovanni Abeille
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The Famed ‘Arab Street’ Comes to America

And it’s being funded by George Soros and the Rockefeller Foundation

byThe Scroll

Protestors in masks and keffiyehs disrupted the Christmas-tree lighting in New York City’s Rockefeller Center Wednesday night and clashed with police as part of a “Flood the Tree Lighting for Gaza” rally, named in celebration of the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7. The journalist Julio Rosas, whose writeup of the protest you can read in Tablet, was at the scene and captured some choice moments on camera, including this video of a protestor carrying a flaming NYPD hat.

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