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“Long live the Intifada”: Pro-Hamas thugs block pedestrian traffic on Brooklyn Bridge

Aug 21, 2014 3:03 pm By Robert Spencer

Increasingly assertive, increasingly aggressive, increasingly open in their support for jihad violence. Video thanks to Josiah Ryan:

A group of several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters managed to shut down large portions of the pedestrian pathway on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Wednesday making it nearly impossible for bicycle commuters and tourists visiting from around the world to traverse the iconic span.

Simultaneously another group of protesters apparently managed to hang an enormous banner bearing an image of the Palestinian flag from the Manhattan Bridge less than a mile North on the East River.

Although dozens of police officers patrolled the bridges and water below, they appeared unable to control the crowd which resonated with calls for the renewal of “intifada” and “resistance.”

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  1. Beagle says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    End the Muslim occupation of New York. Free free Brooklyn.

    • gazasbaby says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 7:33 pm

      By “Muslims” you mean “Israelis”?

  2. The Levite says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    Dont they have jobs, lives, aspirations? Sorry dumb question, ignore me….

    • JOHN SPIELMAN says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 4:01 pm

      simple way to stop this nonsense is to CUT off THEIR WELFARE CHECKS!!!

  3. SkyPuppy says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Gee whiz, where are all the ‘Dhimmi’ Americans comments? Amazing how every other country is pathetic when it happens to them, but its a very very short piece from robert when it involves america. Sweden/Holland/Britain/France, are all dead according to him. But a mere mention when it’s america. Isnt’ that biased?

    • jp says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 7:38 pm

      OK I’ll say it, the cops who didn’t disperse them are kowtowing to Islamic nutsacks just as much as anyone in Europe.

  4. The Levite says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    A must read and in depth article…..

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/08/21/the-media-intifada-bad-math-ugly-truths-about-new-york-times-in-israel-hamas-war/

    • Beagle says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 5:06 pm

      That article has one major flaw. To say the HAMAS Charter is based on 1930s German fascism suggests one has not read it. The Charter is packed full of quotes from the Quran and one genocidal hadith, which is Seventh Century Arab theocratic fascism. The Muslim Brotherhood (HAMAS) was allied with Hitler once but they got their Jew hatred without any help from Germany.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 5:45 pm

        Yep.

        Modern jihad outfits like the Ikhwan were only too happy to borrow ideas from the fascists and nazis (hey, the Ummah has always been only too happy to borrow anything that can be weaponised, so to speak) but as you say, they didn’t need outsiders to teach them to hate Jews.

      • No Fear says

        Aug 22, 2014 at 3:01 am

        Yes, the HAMAS charter quotes the Quran throughout. The Jew hatred and the fascist violence bear a resemblance to the Nazis. Quite a few Nazis went to the middle East after WW2 and their anti-semitism was taken up by the locals.

        See wiki for “Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world”

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 4:58 pm

    A group of several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters managed to shut down large portions of the pedestrian pathway on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Wednesday making it nearly impossible for bicycle commuters and tourists visiting from around the world to traverse the iconic span.

    Protest against “occupation”. Occupy a bridge. What happens if they decide to protest against the killing of Hamas leaders?

    Although dozens of police officers patrolled the bridges and water below, they appeared unable to control the crowd which resonated with calls for the renewal of “intifada” and “resistance.”

    Back in my days, there were these things called “water cannons”, “tear gas” and “baton charge”.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm

      And don’t forget the mounted police and the dog squad.

      I wonder how fast these creeps would have moved on if confronted by 20 or 30 big black Alsations with businesslike expressions?

    • Alex Rose says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Sir, that is because what is written here never happened. The police did not have any problems “controlling the crowd” because there was nothing to control. It was a peaceful demonstration where they marched across the bridge. If you look at the video, you can see pedestrians walking and bicyclists with plenty of space. The police are there and ensure there is no blockade and no problem. Just like in the last demonstration, they guide the crowd to proper streets so as not to disturb, and the demonstrators do not argue but always obey. That is why there was no arrest. Not because the crowd was uncontrollable. It is ridiculous this statement. If the crowd was out of line, then believe me the NYPD would have no problem in taking control.

    • Gail Griffin says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 7:35 pm

      Nope, not anymore. In MO. you can see what happens when the police take action. It becomes regarded as a Nazi police state. Well, maybe not nazi but a thuggish police state anyway. We cow the police. Damned if they do etc. Was this an illegal protest? Is that ok now? If the police had torn down the Palistinian flag would they have been attacked and if they had defended themselves would the attorney general show up to prosecute the policeman? Crazy!!!

  6. richard sherman says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    The Muslims on the bridge represent all Muslims: their culture and Dna reveals them to be 100% uncouth..uncultured..and crude..
    The Muslims on the bridge told the world that all Muslims have no respect for any other culture and are pathetic excuses for human beings…in fact they are actually masquarading as human beings but by their uncouth conduct prove they are a lower life form.

    • infidel&glad says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 3:46 am

      Good comment.

  7. Alex Rose says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    None of what was posted in this article is true. There was no blockage of the bridge. The demonstrators did not close the bridge from pedestrians. They were simply marching along the pedestrian walk way crossing the bridge. This crossing happens everyday. The only difference was that they were carrying signs as they walked. Police did not arrest anyone because there was no reason for it. No one was breaking any laws, no one was violating anything or anyone, there was no violence, and it was peaceful. This statement that the police were unable to control the crowd is untrue. Proper research should be executed by an unbiased reporter.

  8. This pack of lies obviously is an ugly, despicable attempt to smear New Yorkers who support Palestine in the face of the brutal oppression of Palestinians by extreme right-wing fascist Israel! says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    YOU PEOPLE ARE DISPICABLE!

    • richard shrrman says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 7:07 pm

      Read the HAMAS Charter…It demands the murder of eight million Jewish men..women and children..
      It is genocidal document…Everyone who works for..votes for ..or in anyway supports HAMAS supports its genocidal Charter…and is therefore is a sociopath as was the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews and then forced 1000 Jewish women and girls into sexual slavery….of course he spent his time in his fifties having sex with a nine year old girl!

    • marc says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 7:56 pm

      Which bridges being blocked in support of the Yadis and indigenous Christians of iraq and syria that are currently being ethnically cleansed?

      But tell me, where are the lies, are you saying that the bridge was not blocked, they were not pro hamas, or that they weren’t chanting for a new intifada?

      You can’t just go calling people liars because you you don’t like hearing the truth.

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 22, 2014 at 1:33 am

        Also …

        Which bridges did they hang a banner
        “We are being butchered under the banner of no god but Allah”
        in support of the Yadis and indigenous Christians of iraq and syria that are currently being ethnically cleansed

      • Champ says

        Aug 22, 2014 at 9:20 pm

        You can’t just go calling people liars because you you don’t like hearing the truth.

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        Exactly, Marc!

  9. Gail Griffin aka Duituturaga says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    Look Alex Rose aka Mohammed bin Palistini: When Gaza was at peace, when Israel controlled it, people went to the beach, to the movies, and lived a normal life. Then Israel moved out and left it to the Palestinians and what a mess it has been ever since. If they would get back to not trying to kill their neighbors with rockets and tunnels for throat cutters, machinegunners and stop having kiddy shows of Mickey Mouse being killed by Jews, they might just might have a decent life. Your mind is twisted so that you cannot see good from evil. Right from Wrong, just like so many following Islam. Bad choice way back when and still making bad choices.

  10. paddy says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 6:12 am

    HEY! America..relax. It’s the same in the rest of the FREE world. Muslims moaning about the raw deal that they’ve brought upon themselves and refusing to admit that the FREE world is a winner and they are total fucking losers. Eat shit, muslim dog + the finger…x

  11. Screeminmeeme says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Best way to get rid of these guys is to hide their welfare checks under their work boots.

  12. John says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    These kids are reckless. There are better ways to protest.

  13. richard sherman says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    “Reckless” is a six year old who drives his tricycle out of the driveway into traffic…These are jihadists in training…they revere the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews and sexually enslaved and kidnapped 1000 Jewish girls and women..They revere this sociopathic criminal behavior…They are not reckless; they are tomorrow’s suicide bombers…Wake Up!!!

  14. Celisa Seidel says

    Aug 23, 2014 at 3:07 am

    Seems wherever the Pro-Palestinians protest, there’s hate, violence or some kind of obstruction that impinges on the rights of others. Then you look at the Pro-Israel participants who love, share and are considerate of others. Huge difference!! Am Yisrael Chai!!!

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