Anti-Israel protesters chant antisemitic slogan ‘From the river to the sea’ in NYC on second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters converged in Manhattan Tuesday, screaming the antisemitic slogan “From the river to the sea” and wielding vile signs on the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack.

The keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and also bellowed chants of “It is right to resist, Israel does not exist” in protest of the Jewish state on Tuesday.

Many carried signs that read “Long Live the Intifada,” “As the UN is meeting, Gaza is bleeding” and “From New York to Palestine, Starving People is a Crime.”

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One demonstrator brought a particularly hateful homemade sign that read “Israel has the right to go to Hell.”

Others banged protest drums and called for the Intifada while holding a massive banner that read “Glory to our Martyrs.” A man carried a banner that appeared to have a jihadist flag adorned with a machine gun.

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“Israel bombs, USA pays, how many kids did you kill today,” was called out in one of many organized chants.

Many of the participants covered their faces with surgical masks or keffiyehs, the Middle Eastern garb popular among anti-Israel protesters. 

The vitriolic protestors swarmed outside the News Corp building in Midtown which is home to The Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal.

After nearly two hours of chaotic clambering, the protesters marched up Sixth Avenue carrying a massive Palestinian flag that stretched across nearly the entire city street.

They blocked traffic while chanting “1,12,3,4 Israel loves war!” and “Free Palestine.”

Some Jewish counter-protestors on the sidewalk shouted back “release the hostages!”

The large group eventually migrated to Columbus Circle where a diminishing number of agitators vandalized bus stops posts and cars with markers — including on a Tesla Cyber Truck which was scrawled with pink marker reading “Free Palestine.”

Some protestors attempted to gain entry to the plaza at Columbus Circle but were actively turned away by security officers.

The anti-Israel demonstration comes on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel carried out by Hamas which set off the prolonged conflict still raging in Gaza.

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“From the river to the sea” – which refers to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea – is a common rallying cry during anti-Israel protests and has been deemed antisemitic by the American Jewish Committee in certain contexts. 

“When the phrase is used with the harmful intent of implying the erasure of the State of Israel, ethnic cleansing of Jews from the land, or simply as harassment of Jews in any other part of the world, it is antisemitic,” the AJC states. 

Tuesday’s protest came as President Donald Trump announced that Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were heading to Egypt to negotiate the end of the conflict in Gaza.