Former Columbia student Mohammed Khalil received a hero’s welcome at the march, after recently downplaying the October 7th massacres in a podcast interview
Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators rallied in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, calling for a “global intifada” — a phrase widely understood to mean the destruction of Israel and mass violence against Jews worldwide.
Protesters carried signs reading “Free Palestine” and “Defeat imperialist/Zionist genocidal war-makers” as they marched through Bryant Park in New York City.
The rally was organized by several far-left and anti-Israel groups, including the ANSWER Coalition, the Democratic Socialists of America, CodePink, the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).