Pro-Palestinian group hands out NYC map calling for ‘direct action’ against landmarks as city spews ‘hateful rhetoric’ and warns NYPD
A pro-Palestinian group has called for “direct action” to “globalize the Intifada” by sharing a map of famous landmarks in New York City on Instagram.
The image specified famous buildings and companies in the Big Apple that have ties to Israel or are media companies.
The page on which the map is posted is called Within Our Lifetime and has described itself as a Palestinian-led community organization that says, “We will liberate Palestine.”
“Each of the locations on this map reflects the location of an office of an enemy of both the Palestinian people and colonized people around the world, the group said, according to the New York Post. “Today and beyond, these locations will be sites for popular mobilization in defense of our people,” the message said.
A spokesperson for the town hall said this The New York Post: “But to be clear, threatening companies and organizations and calling them the ‘enemy’ is exactly the kind of hateful rhetoric that tries to divide New Yorkers, but it won’t work because we are better than that.”
The map highlighted notable targets in the city, such as Grand Central Station. DailyMail.com has decided to blur the map.
The card itself, which was posted on Wednesday, has now been removed.
The group, also called ‘wolpalestine’ on Instagram, has 121,000 followers and posts protest banners and cards several times a day.
The map itself was titled “From Palestine to NYC – Globalize the Intifada.” The term intifada is directly related to the Palestinian uprising against Israel when they occupied the West Bank of the Gaza Strip in 1987.
The group also posted another card on its social media page on Wednesday that remains on its Instagram page.
This map was entitled ‘Financing Colonization: Tax-Exempt Zionist ‘Charities’ Funding Settler Organizations in Palestine’. Specific Israeli locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island and New Jersey were then listed and identified.
A pro-Palestinian protester is seen being stopped by the NYPD
Protesters read the names of those killed in Gaza from a newspaper called ‘The New York Crimes’
Politicians across New York City have responded to the threatened ‘direct action’ card on social media.
Councilor Keith Powers told X (formally known as Twitter): “This is an unacceptable invitation to senseless violence. I strongly condemn it and have contacted the local NYPD.”
“Coded calls for violence against Jews are spreading on social media,” Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres said on X, along with a photo of the map.
The respected Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice president of the NY Board of Rabbis, told The Post: “Intifadas are targeted attacks on Jews. The hatred of the heart leads to hatred of the hands.”
Wolpalestine also posted a flyer Thursday about a planned march on Saturday in Brooklyn’s Bay Bridge neighborhood.
NYPD officers confront some protesters outside Grand Central Station
Hundreds of high school students and teachers from New York walked out and marched to Bryant Park
They called it “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza” and asked attendees to bring flags, keffiyehs and masks.
“In the meantime, spread this like wildfire,” the post read.
On November 9, a pro-Palestinian group stormed the New York Times building criticizing the news channel’s coverage of the war.
Protesters took over the building’s lobby waving flags and holding up the “Ceasefire now” chant. They then read the names of those killed in Gaza from a newspaper entitled “The New York Crimes.”
Earlier that day, New York City high school students, parents and teachers participated in a walkout protest calling for a ceasefire.
Organized by groups like Teachers Unite, NYC Educators for Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement, students walked out of class and gathered in Bryant Park.
The crowd chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a phrase used to call for a Palestinian takeover of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, which includes Israel.
‘We have called on people to stop working. We have called on people to leave their schools. Many people responded to that call,” said Munir Marwan of the Palestinian Youth Movement CBS New York.
The group is calling for a ceasefire and an end to what they called the Israeli genocide.
Palestinians search for victims in the Magazi refugee camp in central Gaza
Israeli military vehicles and heavy smoke in the Gaza Strip
Israeli troops have continued to bombard Gaza for weeks
The next day, a mob of masked pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to storm Grand Central Station, kicking in the door and breaking the glass.
Although they were unable to reach the closed station where 750,000 people normally pass through each day, the NYPD warned people to avoid the area.
It’s been just over a month since Hamas launched its surprise attack, killing 1,400 Israelis and taking about 240 hostages in the worst attack in the country’s history.
On Wednesday, President Biden said he had made it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a two-state solution was the only answer to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Hamas committed war crimes by storing weapons in a tunnel under a hospital in Gaza.
Israel has long accused Hamas of hiding its forces among civilian targets. Hamas officials have said more than 10,000 people have been killed in Israel’s campaign, although the White House says it cannot verify that number.