Hundreds of protesters called for an “intifada revolution” in Occasions Square on New Year’s Day, hours after a terrorist carrying an ISIS flag attacked dozens of people at a New Year’s parade in New Orleans.
Attendees at the protest in New York City, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People’s Forum, according to the New York Post — they chanted “There is only one solution: the Intifada revolution.”
Among other chants were “Resistance is glorious: we will be victorious”; “We will honor all our martyrs”; and “Gaza, you make us proud.”
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Protesters called for an “intifada revolution” in New York’s Occasions Sq. on New Year’s Day. (Luke Tress/Israel Times)
Protesters carried signs that read “Zionism is a cancer,” “No war against Iran,” and “End all US aid to Israel.” The Times of Israel reported.
“We will send you back to Europe, you white bitch,” a woman wearing a keffiyeh shouted at counterprotesters in an exchange captured on video. “Go back to Europe!”
One speaker shouted through a megaphone that “2024 was a year of fighting the crime of Zionism.”
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Photo of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in the Bourbon Avenue terrorist attack. (@FBI via X)
“We will be here every year, generation after generation, until the full liberation and return,” the speaker said, according to the Times of Israel.
Several hours before the rally, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Jabbar, who was shot and killed in a shootout with police, was an American-born citizen who lived in texasFBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
The attack unfolded around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday and left 15 dead, including Jabbar, and 35 wounded.
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ATF agents continue to investigate the rental home used by Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans on Thursday, January 2, 2024. Many people were killed and dozens injured after Jabbar rammed his car into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Avenue on Wednesday. . (Kat Ramírez for Fox Information Digital)
Christopher Raja, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI said Thursday that investigators had recovered several weapons from the crime scene and surrounding areas, including two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in refrigerators located at the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans streets and at a second intersection just two blocks away. away. He added that the FBI wants to talk to witnesses who may have seen the coolers containing improvised explosive devices.
Jabbar served in the Army as a human resources and information technology (IT) specialist from March 2007 to January 2015. Following active duty, he served in the Army Reserves as an IT specialist from January 2015 to July 2020. .
During his tenure, he was stationed in Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010.
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Jabbar said in Facebook videos before the attack that he had joined ISIS before this summer and provided a will, according to the FBI.
Fox Information Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
