Anti-Israel protesters in NYC wave Hezbollah, Hamas flags, hold portrait of Sinwar

Anti-Israel protesters at New York City’s Hunter College over the weekend displayed symbols of the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and chanted in support of violent “resistance.”

Footage from the Friday rally showed protesters, many of them wearing keffiyehs, chanting, “We won’t condemn resistance,” apparently in support of terror attacks. They also chanted “Israel will never win,” and called to “free Palestine.”

Protesters were seen waving a flag with the emblem of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, carrying a Hezbollah flag, and brandishing a portrait of Hamas’s Gaza ruler and October 7 massacre mastermind Yahya Sinwar.

One of the activists was also seen peeling off an anti-Hamas sticker from a traffic light, while another was seen trampling on an American and Israeli flag — a gesture that is often seen in anti-Israel rallies in the Middle East.

The rally was organized by the hardline pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime, a group that has been behind some of the most extreme protests in New York since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.

Some 1,200 people were killed on October 7 when the Palestinian terror group Hamas led a massive cross-border attack in which terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Hunter College in New York wave Hezbollah and Hamas flags and Yahya Sinwar's picture, while chanting “We don't condemn resistance!” pic.twitter.com/ebqPT8WgS6

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Explicit support for terror groups and the bloody massacre was also displayed earlier this month at a New York exhibit memorializing the Nova music festival massacre. Those protests were also organized by Within Our Lifetime.

Protesters set off flares, flew flags of the al-Qassam Brigades and of Hezbollah, and carried banners with slogans such as “Long live October 7” and “The Zionists are not Jews and not humans.”

Although no arrests were reported, six people received summonses for disorderly conduct and jumping turnstiles on the subway, according to the New York Post.

Over 360 people were killed at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7 as Hamas terrorists rampaged through the outdoor rave, mowing down festival-goers, torturing and raping victims and carrying out other atrocities. Many of those taken hostage in Gaza had been at the music festival.

Titled “6:29 am, The Moment Music Stood Still,” the Wall Street exhibit recreates the events of October 7 at the festival and the aftermath, using objects left at the scene and footage taken from both security cameras and videos created by the terrorists.

The White House called the demonstration “heartbreaking.” Progressive and moderate lawmakers reprimanded the protesters.

Footage from a protest earlier this year at Hunter College showed a protest leader chanting, “We say no to genocide, Jews on campus pick a side,” drawing condemnation from the campus’s Hillel branch.

Jacob Magid contributed to this report.