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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.
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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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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of a «betrayal» after the Supreme Court handed his administration a pair of immigration wins involving Temporary Protected Status and asylum claims.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian and Syrian migrants, clearing the way for the administration to remove legal protections that have allowed many Haitians to remain and work in the U.S. since Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and many Syrians since the country’s civil war prompted a TPS designation in 2012.
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Fox News Digital the TPS decision targets the very people Trump supporters were told would not be the focus of his aggressive immigration deportation agenda.
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«I think it’s really sad because these decisions are targeting exactly the kind of people that Republican voters said that they did not want targeted in the Trump administration’s immigration policy,» Ocasio-Cortez said.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media as she arrives for the last votes of the week at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
She argued the ruling marked «a reversal of President Trump’s promise to only go after, quote unquote, criminals and rapists.»
«This decision to overturn TPS targets nurses, it targets health care workers, it targets domestic workers, cleaners, people who work in restaurants,» she said, calling it «a real betrayal of President Trump’s promise.»
Ocasio-Cortez also argued the ruling would hurt U.S. citizens by raising prices, making it harder to find workers, while also breaking up longstanding communities.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., criticized Trump and Republicans over the asylum ruling, saying the president has «time and time again» attacked a process that has been part of U.S. law for decades.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
«People are fleeing terrible conditions and they have a lawful right to declare asylum,» Aguilar said.
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«Temporary Protected Status was always meant to be temporary,» White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said on Thursday. «It was never meant to be a pathway to permanent status or citizenship…our asylum system, for years, has been abused and exploited by bad actors…this ruling is a step in the right direction towards clearing up our asylum system and making sure that people can’t enter our country who shouldn’t be here — and that people who are here, who shouldn’t be here, should be deported.»
Asked what Democrats’ next step would be on TPS, Aguilar pointed to legislation he said Democrats forced through the House by discharge petition.
«Democrats led legislation in order to bring certainty to that. It’s sitting over in the Senate,» Aguilar said. «We forced a discharge petition, and were successful because we believe in governing.»
Aguilar appeared to be referring to House-passed legislation aimed at extending TPS protections for Haitians.
Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., said he had not yet read the full decisions but was «beyond the point of being surprised by almost any decision that comes out of court.»
Congressman Shomari Figures, D-Ala., speaks at a press conference on healthcare with other members of the House Democratic caucus in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Figures defended TPS for Haiti, citing natural disasters, political instability and violence.
«There’s not a country that I think TPS is designed at its core that’s more deserving of that than the situations we currently see in Haiti,» Figures said.
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Después del terremoto, Venezuela busca a los desaparecidos entre los escombros y la incertidumbre
La familia de Crescencio Marotta ha recorrido hospitales, refugios y edificios colapsados sin encontrar una respuesta. Su nombre figura en los reportes de personas desaparecidas o incomunicadas registrados tras el terremoto que sacudió Venezuela.
Las primeras 24 horas después del doble terremoto que sacudió Venezuela han estado marcadas por la incertidumbre y una búsqueda contrarreloj de sobrevivientes. Los sismos, de magnitud 7,2 y 7,5, ocurrieron con apenas 39 segundos de diferencia, poco después de las 18.00 (hora local), y se convirtieron en la peor catástrofe sísmica de la historia moderna del país. Las zonas más afectadas fueron La Guaira, Caracas y otras localidades del centro-norte venezolano.
Según el balance oficial ofrecido por el ministro de Salud, Carlos Alvarado, la tragedia deja hasta el momento 235 fallecidos, 4.300 heridos y 157 personas desaparecidas. Y en el boletín pasado se informaron más de 200 personas atrapadas bajo los escombros, 250 edificios destruidos y 2.927 familias sin hogar.
Sin embargo, organizaciones ciudadanas advierten que el número de personas cuyo paradero se desconoce podría ser mayor. El Buscador de personas desaparecidas, localizadas y atendidas tras el terremoto, impulsado por la Red de Periodistas Venezolanas, ha recibido cerca de 500 reportes de personas desaparecidas o incomunicadas desde el inicio de la emergencia.
“Surge como una respuesta urgente frente a la emergencia. Cuando pasan estas cosas vemos cómo el sistema de salud colapsa, los bomberos trabajan en las peores condiciones y Protección Civil no se da abasto. En un país donde el acceso a la información es cada vez más difícil, contar con información confirmada y oportuna puede ayudar muchísimo a las familias”, explicó Valeria Pedicini, periodista e impulsora de la iniciativa de la Red de Periodistas Venezolanas.
Otro sitio, desaparecidosterremotovenezuela.com, registra cifras más alarmantes: 49.822 personas que aún no se contactaron con quienes los buscan.
Mientras continúan las labores de rescate, miles de venezolanos recorren hospitales, refugios temporales y centros de atención en busca de noticias de sus familiares. Otros revisan listados de pacientes o publicaciones en redes sociales, mientras las fallas en los servicios de telefonía e internet dificultan el intercambio de información.
La situación más crítica se vive en La Guaira, la ciudad costera que concentra buena parte de los daños provocados por los terremotos. Allí, decenas de edificios colapsaron y los equipos de rescate continúan buscando a cientos de personas entre los escombros.
Los registros de la Red de Periodistas Venezolanas indican que más de 400 de los reportes de personas desaparecidas o incomunicadas corresponden a esta zona del país, convertida en el principal foco de las operaciones de búsqueda.
Entre esos casos estuvo el de Camila Márquez, quien permaneció casi 24 horas sin comunicarse con su familia después del terremoto. Sus allegados difundieron su fotografía en redes sociales hasta que, cerca de las 17.00 (hora local), su hermana Sophia confirmó que había sido localizada con vida.
La incertidumbre continúa para otras familias. Crescencio Marotta y Gladys Ríos permanecen desaparecidos desde el colapso del edificio Solymar, en el sector Los Corales de La Guaira. En ese mismo inmueble también es buscado Sebastián Valencia. Sus familiares, dentro y fuera de Venezuela, mantienen una intensa campaña para difundir sus fotografías y obtener cualquier información sobre su paradero.
“Mis primos y mi hermano están allá tratando de levantar los escombros. En realidad, es la propia comunidad la que está intentando sacar a las personas. Hemos publicado en las redes sociales y también en el portal para desaparecidos”, relató Bárbara Mendoza, sobrina del matrimonio desaparecido.
A medida que pasan las horas, la esperanza de encontrar sobrevivientes convive con la angustia de cientos de familias que siguen sin respuestas. En una emergencia donde las comunicaciones son limitadas y la información circula con dificultad, cada reporte, cada fotografía compartida y cada nombre confirmado representan una posibilidad de reencontrarse.
A más de 24 horas de la tragedia, la búsqueda continúa.
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