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‘Queer as in free Palestine’: 10 arrested for blocking NYC Pride March

By AP and ToI Staff 1 July 2024, 5:31 am 6 Edit
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters block the parade route during the NYC Pride March, June 30, 2024, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters block the parade route during the NYC Pride March, June 30, 2024, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Pro-Palestinian protesters temporarily block the New York City Pride March in a demonstration against Israel, chanting: “Free, free, free Palestine!”

A number of the demonstrators wear t-shirts with the text, “queer as in free Palestine,” and hold banners declaring “no queer liberation without Palestinian liberation” and “Palestine will be free.”

The New York Police Department eventually takes some of them away, later reporting that 10 people were arrested.

The parade itself included both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian marchers.

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