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Hamas, Hezbollah flags fly at anti-Israel protest minutes after Mamdani condemns terror plot against Jews
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Several masked demonstrators carried Hamas flags at an anti-Israel protest in Manhattan on Friday, while a Hezbollah flag waved above the crowd, hours after federal authorities charged an alleged Kataib Hezbollah operative of plotting attacks on Jewish community centers and a Manhattan synagogue.
The protest drew about 500 demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags to Washington Square Park, where chants of «globalize the intifada» rang out as one speaker declared Israel has no right to exist and said Palestinians would take over Israel «by any means necessary.»
Just as the protest was kicking off at around 4:30 p.m., New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the alleged terror plot by Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a commander in the Kataeb Hezbollah terrorist operation in Iraq.
«Let me be clear: antisemitism, violent extremism, and terrorism have no place in our city. This kind of hate is despicable,» Mamdani said.
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Demonstrators display imagery associated with Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, during a «Nakba 78» protest march in Manhattan, New York City, on May 15, 2026. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
Two minutes later, a starkly different scene unfolded in Lower Manhattan off W. 4th Street. The activists descended on the busy Washington Square Park with Palestinian flags, pre-printed signs and banners, transforming a corner of the park into a rally staging ground to protest the existence of the state of Israel and demand its dismantling and replacement with a state called Palestine.
Among them, a young anti-Israel demonstrator arrived, draped in the flag of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades — Hamas’s military wing — wearing it like a cape. The flag depicted a masked armed fighter beside the Dome of the Rock beneath green script in Arabic, declaring the shahada, or Muslim proclamation of faith. He also carried a flag featuring an image of Abu Obaida, the spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, who became one of the terror group’s most recognizable figures after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Israeli forces killed him in 2025.
Others followed wearing the green headbands of Hamas and carrying similar flags. Nearby, a protester carried Hezbollah’s bright yellow flag, featuring the organization’s recognizable green insignia of a stylized assault rifle incorporated into Arabic calligraphy.
The demonstration was organized by anti-Israel groups including the Muslim American Society — a powerful nonprofit whose leaders supported Mamdani’s election — and Within Our Lifetime, another local group. Protesters arrived carrying pre-made banners over their shoulders, stacks of professionally printed signs and a North Face bag filled with protest gear.
These same groups led protests at a Jewish synagogue and community center in New York City this past week, resulting in viral clashes with Jewish community members.
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., next to an NYPD precinct, Muslim American Society of New York is a 501(c)(3) sister nonprofit of Muslim American Society. It had $782,644 in revenue in 2024, according to its last tax filing. Within Our Lifetime isn’t a nonprofit but accepts donations.
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A demonstrator holds a Hezbollah flag during an anti-Israel protest in New York City on May 15, 2026. (Umar Abbassi/Fox News Digital)
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By about 5:06 p.m., Within Our Lifetime’s polarizing co-founder, Nerdeen Kiswani, emerged from the crowd at the Washington Square Arch and led chants of «Globalize the intifada! From New York to Gaza! Globalize the intifada!»
«We do not mince words here,» Kiswani told the crowd. «Yes, that also means necessarily that the state of Israel and Zionism must be abolished. I do not and will never recognize Israel’s so-called right to exist. It has no right to exist.»
Minutes later, at about 5:14 p.m., Abdullah Akl, a leader at the Muslim American Society Youth Center in Brooklyn, stood in front of a large black banner that read «GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA» in white and gold letters.
«From the river to the sea,» Akl shouted, invoking a slogan widely interpreted as calling for the elimination of Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. «Palestine will be free.»
As demonstrators readied to march north through Manhattan, several participants openly waved Hamas flags above the crowd. When asked about the displays, Kiswani told Fox News Digital: «We only bring Palestinian flags.»
But the Hamas flags remained visible throughout the march, including directly behind Kiswani and Akl as demonstrators moved uptown in a tightly coordinated procession. Kiswani told Fox News Digital, «We only bring Palestinian flags.»
The Manhattan protest was one of about 736 «Nakba Day» events that 425 organizations with about $1 billion in collective revenue held across 39 cities in recent days, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. «Nakba,» the Arabic word for «catastrophe,» refers to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Chants throughout the evening rejected the idea of a two-state solution.
Within Our Lifetime co-founder Nerdeen Kiswani speaks during a «Nakba 78» anti-Israel protest in Washington Square Park on May 15, 2026, in New York City, as demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and Hamas flags gather behind her. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
«We don’t want your two states,» demonstrators shouted, following Kiswani’s cue, as organizers moved the march route through Manhattan, past Sephora, the makeup store, on E. 14th Street.
Protesters beat drums decorated with stickers reading, «By Any Means Necessary,» while marchers carried a banner declaring, «From Gaza to Jenin. Revolution Until Victory.»
In the crowd, activists from Islamist and communist groups marched together, including Al-Awda, which advocates for the so-called «right of return» of diaspora Palestinians to Israel, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-declared Marxist group, and the Workers World Party, which describes itself as a «revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party inside the belly of the imperialist beast.»
A group of Orthodox Jewish demonstrators also marched beside pro-Palestinian activists carrying signs reading «Judaism condemns the state of Israel» and «Torah demands all Palestine.» Rabbi David Feldman told Fox News Digital he believed «the state of Israel may not exist at all» under Jewish law and said Palestinians should regain «every inch» of land taken from them.
About Hamas, he said, «They don’t target against Jewish people, so I don’t think that they are a terrorist group. They’re just fighting for the land, what people stole from them, that’s all. So that’s what I believe, so I don’t say anything in politics, that is all.»
But the Hamas supporters went undisturbed as they flew a flag of the terrorist group over Kiswani and Akl, clapping, just before they set out to lead the group through Manhattan in a carefully choreographed street theater that stretched into the night. This past week, another flag raised another controversy: a purple flag with the swastika symbol of Nazis, the five-point star that is a symbol of Judaism and the «NYU» acronym for New York University. The university apologized for its use.
A demonstrator carries imagery depicting Abu Obaida, spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades, during a «Nakba 78» anti-Israel protest march in Manhattan on May 15, 2026, in New York City. (Umar Abbassi/Fox News Digital)
As the demonstration snaked over Sixth Avenue, one protester, Anas Shuayb, 27, defended the Hamas imagery as «free speech» and described Hamas as a «form of resistance» to Israeli military activity in Gaza and the West Bank.
Shuayb said he voted for Trump and attended the protest partly because he opposes the U.S. war in Iran.
«I’m Palestinian and a Palestinian who voted for Trump,» Shuaib, who attended Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in 2024, told Fox News Digital.
Shuaib said he was disappointed Trump had «fallen in the trap of Netanyahu» after campaigning against new foreign wars. «America should fight no war for Israel,» he added. «America first, not Israel first.»
The demonstration resembled a carefully staged political production more than a spontaneous protest. Organizers distributed professionally printed signs reading, «We Will Return,» a slogan referencing Palestinian demands for a mass movement to modern-day Israel.
Outside Grand Central Station on 42nd Street, Kiswani grabbed the mic and led the group in a proclamation of aggression. On Park Avenue, protesters defiantly unfurled a massive Palestinian flag stretching across much of the streets while crowds beneath it repeatedly chanted, «Globalize the intifada,»
«Palestine has the right to exist and to resist and to reclaim land and freedom by any means necessary,» Kiswani told the crowd.
As the crowd marched uptown to Time Square, Hamas and Hezbollah imagery remained visible without any effort by organizers to remove or discourage the displays.
Activists appeared highly conscious of their visual presentation. Some demonstrators marched in designer sunglasses, luxury handbags and carefully styled outfits while protest marshals coordinated crowd movement and legal observers from the ACLU monitored the route.
Akl, the leader at the Muslim American Society, wore a parody designer-style shirt reading, «The Anti-Zionist Social Club,» mimicking the aesthetic of luxury streetwear brands popular among younger activists.
Members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization distributed flyers reading, «Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!» On the reverse side were advertisements for LGBTQ organizing meetings featuring imagery from the «Gay Liberation Front.»
The route itself appeared strategically staged for maximum visibility and dramatic effect.
Demonstrators gathered beneath the overpass outside Grand Central Terminal, where chants of «Free Palestine» and «Globalize the Intifada» echoed through the station, in one of the loudest moments of the evening. Protesters appeared at moments to push toward the terminal entrance, though they ultimately didn’t enter the station.
Later, on Park Avenue, marchers briefly surrounded vehicles in traffic while chanting «Shut it down,» creating the appearance of a street takeover as NYPD officers quietly redirected cars around the demonstration.
At several points, protesters shouted at bystanders and critics to «get off the street» while police officers continued escorting the march route through Manhattan.
Professionally printed banners reading «Revolution Until Victory» and «Resisting the Nakba Since 1948» stretched across the front lines of the march as drummers, megaphones and coordinated flag displays transformed intersections into temporary stages for chants and political theater.
Many of the demonstrators wore masks or face coverings and keffiyehs, while some acted as informal security detail, repeatedly stepping between cameras and protest leaders, blowing whistles and thrusting Palestinian flags into camera lenses to disrupt filming by journalists and bystanders.
WE CAN’T IGNORE THE DANGER FROM THOSE WHO WANT TO ‘GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA.’ WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION
Demonstrator carries imagery depicting Abu Obaida, spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades, during a «Nakba 78» anti-Israel protest in Times Square in New York City on May 15, 2026. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
By the time the final marchers arrived at Times Square for a carefully choreographed public prayer, photographed extensively by the organizers’ social media team, the evening had showcased what experts describe as a durable and politically normalized protest ecosystem in New York City, blending nonprofit institutions, socialist organizations, anti-Israel activism, legal support networks, social-media aesthetics and militant symbolism into a single coordinated street operation.
The young man with the Hamas cape joined the second row of the congregational prayer at Time Square, the iconography for the terrorist group’s Qassam Brigade prominent as he prostrated in prayer.
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California election limbo fueled by 4 pressure points dragging out vote count, expert says
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California’s still-unsettled election results are the consequence of the state’s vote-by-mail system, according to election law expert Hans von Spakovsky, who said the process can keep ballots moving through verification and counting for days and even weeks after Election Day.
The Golden State is continuing to count ballots cast in its June 2 primary elections, a process that has extended beyond Election Day due to the state’s election laws, administrative procedures, and vote-counting policies, said von Spakovsky. The delay is not the result of an isolated incident or unexpected complication but stems from the structure of its electoral system before final results can be certified.
«There are four reasons why California takes so long,» von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told Fox News Digital on Friday. «First of all, it’s almost entirely a mail election now.»
The Los Angeles mayoral race has captured the nation’s attention as Republican-aligned candidate Spencer Pratt awaits a tally determining if he or Democrat-aligned Nithya Raman will advance to the runoff election in November against incumbent Democrat Karen Bass. While former Health and Human Services secretary under the Biden administration, Xavier Becerra, Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Tom Steyer are still duking it out for the top two spots in the state’s jungle primary process ahead of the general election in November.
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A ballot box sits outside Contra Costa County’s elections office in Martinez, Calif., on May 27, 2026. June 2 is the last day to vote in person or return a ballot before California’s statewide primary election. (Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)
Von Spakovsky identified what he said are the four causes for the delay in final tallies: mass mail voting, a seven-day post-Election Day ballot receipt window, a 22-day cure period for signature issues, and high volumes of provisional ballots that must be individually investigated.
Of the four causes of the delay, von Spakovsky said California’s mail-ballot rules cause the greatest concern because it dramatically slows the counting process. With the vast majority of ballots cast by mail, election officials must spend additional time verifying and processing those ballots before they can be counted, extending the timeline for final results.
«You can go vote in person, but like in the 2024 election, out of 16 million votes that were cast in the presidential election, 13 million were by mail. It takes much longer to process a mail-in ballot than a ballot that’s cast at a polling place,» he said.
Mail-in ballots allow voters to cast their ballots from home, avoid long lines and grew in popularity during the pandemic.
Ballot drops are still rolling in and once they do, counties then have additional time to process, verify and tabulate those ballots, with counting expected to continue through June 15.
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Vote by mail ballots are inspected at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center in City of Industry, Calif., on Nov. 4, 2025. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Von Spakovsky pointed to postmarks on ballots as a key vulnerability in counting ballots.
«California law says, ‘We’ll count absentee ballots or mail-in ballots received up to seven days after Election Day if they’re postmarked by Election Day. But if the postmark’s missing, or it’s blurry, and we can’t read it, we will just go by whatever date the voter wrote inside the envelope,’» he said.
He said the state’s election rules are too permissive, pointing to policies such as not requiring voter ID, automatic voter registration, and lengthy post-election ballot processing periods, which he argued invite fraud or irregularities.
California is one of eight states, along with Washington, D.C., that automatically sends mail ballots in to all active registered voters in their universal vote-by-mail policy.
President Donald Trump singled out the state’s election process this week, announcing that U.S. attorneys are looking into Los Angeles as the mayoral race remains pending.
«Without commenting on any specific investigation, my office has multiple election fraud investigations underway in coordination with @FBILosAngeles,» First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli wrote on X Thursday. «We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.»
«The state has stonewalled every effort to verify that only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote. This case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. My office will not look the other way. We will investigate and prosecute. Every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out,» he added.
A sign points to a vote center during the in-person early voting period for California’s Proposition 50 special election in West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2025. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Democrats have played down concern over the process to count the ballots, including Becerra saying those who bemoan the amount of time it takes are working «to undermine confidence in our elections.»
«We count every ballot. Thank you for your patience as we give democracy time to work,» Steyer wrote on X, citing Trump’s recent comments on the election.
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Viral rumors have spread across social media since June 2, including claims that Pratt did not receive a single vote out of about 24,000 Los Angeles ballots that rolled in.
«That’s a lie,» the California Attorney General’s Office told Fox News Digital, pointing to an X statement from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office debunking the claims as «disinformation» and a «lie.»
FILE – Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in Oakland, Calif (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
The California governor sent a letter to state election officials in May calling on them to swiftly tabulate the upcoming elections, while focusing the letter on building and maintaining confidence in voting.
«We must continue building confidence in our elections and ensure not only that every vote is counted, but that every vote is trusted. We must acknowledge that the longer the voting count takes, the more mis- and disinformation spreads. That means we must do all that we can to tabulate votes quickly and accurately. Time is of the essence in preventing election lies from taking hold,» he wrote.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office for additional comment.
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Patrimonio de los diputados de El Salvador queda completo tras una última declaración publicada por Hacienda
La divulgación de los activos y pasivos de todos los diputados propietarios de la Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador quedó completada tras la publicación de la declaración patrimonial de Reinaldo Alcides Carballo Carballo, representante del Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC).
Con este registro, el sitio web del Ministerio de Hacienda proporciona información patrimonial de los 60 legisladores elegidos para el periodo 2024-2027, un hecho que marca el cierre de una etapa de transparencia institucional impulsada por exigencias internacionales y normativas anticorrupción.
El Ministerio de Hacienda habilitó el portal de activos y pasivos a finales de mayo, desde entonces se podían consultar las declaraciones de 58 de los 60 diputados propietarios. La incorporación de los datos de Carballo permite completar el listado de este órgano del Estado.
De acuerdo con los datos oficiales, el diputado Carballo, quien también ocupa el cargo de secretario general del PDC, declaró activos por $5,612,675.96 y pasivos por $1,470,414.36, lo que sitúa su patrimonio neto en $4,142,261.60, el más elevado entre los actuales miembros de la Asamblea Legislativa.
El funcionario lidera así la tabla patrimonial, por encima de figuras como Claudia Carolina Toledo de Morán, con un patrimonio de $1,887,000.00, y Reynaldo Antonio López Cardoza, con $1,606,880.07. Estos datos pueden consultarse abiertamente en el sitio del Ministerio de Hacienda, digitando el nombre completo del legislador y la institución correspondiente.
Otros diputados como el presidente de la Asamblea Legislativa, Ernesto Alfredo Castro Aldana, mantiene activos por $321,580 y pasivos por $89,205; es decir, tiene un patrimonio de $232,375. Mientras que la vicepresidenta legislativa, Suecy Beverley Callejas Estrada, tiene activos por $223,278 y pasivos por $172,813, reportando así un patrimonio de $50,465.
El listado completo, disponible en el portal gubernamental, muestra que la suma de activos de los 60 diputados asciende a $23,843,387, mientras que los pasivos llegan a $8,294,853. El patrimonio neto conjunto de la legislatura se ubica en $15,548,533.74.
El proceso de publicación de estos datos responde a compromisos internacionales y a la reciente legislación nacional. El Gobierno de El Salvador asumió, ante el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), la obligación de robustecer la transparencia fiscal y el control del enriquecimiento ilícito. El acuerdo de Servicio Ampliado con el FMI, por $1,400 millones, incluyó entre sus condiciones la implementación de mecanismos como la divulgación patrimonial y la rendición de cuentas de los funcionarios.
En ese contexto, la Ley Especial de Combate a la Corrupción y Extinción de Dominio, aprobada por mayoría oficialista, estableció la obligación para todos los funcionarios de presentar declaraciones de activos y pasivos.
La normativa indica que el incumplimiento de este deber conlleva la destitución inmediata del cargo, además de posibles sanciones administrativas y penales para quienes falseen u oculten información. De acuerdo con el texto legal, la Superintendencia de Integridad y Ética Gubernamental es la entidad responsable de fiscalizar el cumplimiento y de trasladar eventuales irregularidades al Ministerio Público.
El avance en la transparencia patrimonial tiene antecedentes complejos. En 2020, el Instituto de Acceso a la Información Pública (IAIP) determinó que las adendas patrimoniales presentadas por los funcionarios serían consideradas confidenciales. A partir de esa decisión, la información sobre variaciones en el patrimonio de los funcionarios públicos quedó reservada.
Actualmente, la consulta de la información patrimonial de los diputados es directa: los interesados deben ingresar el nombre completo del legislador y la institución “Asamblea Legislativa” en el sistema digital oficial. Esta apertura permite conocer los bienes reportados de cada diputado propietario, aunque las adendas y justificaciones de incrementos patrimoniales permanecen fuera del alcance público.
La publicación de estos datos representa un paso relevante en materia de transparencia y control del patrimonio público en El Salvador. Con esta información patrimonial se consolida el cumplimiento de los compromisos asumidos ante el FMI por las autoridades salvadoreñas.
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