A pro-Hamas rally held at Columbus Circle in New York City Sunday featured a chant in support of Yemen-based Houthi terrorists who are waging war on Red Sea shipping in support of Hamas. Video of the rally shows a woman dressed in terrorist garb leading a crowd of several hundred also dressed in terrorist garb and waving Palestinian flags in a chant of, “Yemen, Yemen, makes us proud! Turn another ship around!”
The Houthis have been launching missiles at merchant ships, boarding ships and attacking U.S. forces. This weekend saw the Houthis attack U.S. Navy ships and helicopters with missiles from land and arms from small boats, respectively, in separate incidents as the U.S. intervened to protect merchant a ship under repeated attack by the Houthis. The missiles were shot down and three of the four attacking boats were sunk by the U.S., killing a reported ten Houthi terrorists.
Video posted by the communist group Party for Socialism and Liberation, “YEMEN, YEMEN MAKE US PROUD! TURN ANOTHER SHIP AROUND! RIGHT NOW: A large crowd is gathering in NYC’s Columbus Circle”
📣🇾🇪YEMEN, YEMEN MAKE US PROUD! TURN ANOTHER SHIP AROUND!
‼️🇵🇸RIGHT NOW: A large crowd is gathering in NYC’s Columbus Circle to #ShutItDown4Palestine! pic.twitter.com/LU0QIAhxYe
— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) December 31, 2023
PSL’s communist affiliate group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop war and End Racism) reposted the PSL video as well another video from the rally calling for communist revolution:
🔥”I am tired of my neighbors being put in jail! I am tired of not having public healthcare! But we are not tired of fighting for liberation!
‼️🇵🇸BREAKING: A huge crowd in NYC’s Columbus Circle gets ready to march for Palestine! #ShutItDown4Palestine pic.twitter.com/NtS4UqOdMt
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) December 31, 2023
Photos from the rally by PSL’s Eugene Puryear:
NYC for Palestine 12/31/23 pic.twitter.com/pds9idVsHs
— Eugene Puryear (@EugenePuryear) December 31, 2023
“The issue is never the issue, the issue is the (communist) revolution”:
At the rally in Columbus Circle earlier today, an organizer from the Ridgewood Tenants Union spoke about forced displacement in Palestine and beyond: pic.twitter.com/LoqpUco2j8
— Writers Against the War on Gaza (@wawog_now) January 1, 2024
Videos posted by reporter Benjamin Ryan of pro-Israel women confronting the pro-terrorist rally show the sexism and anti-Semitism behind the revolution: Pro-Hamas man calls pro-Israel woman, a “dirty, Zionist c*nt”:
“We are not afraid of you, we are going to win,” a mother with her kids says, supporting Israel at a pro-Palestinian protest in Columbus Circle. pic.twitter.com/EsriwywthM
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) December 31, 2023
ANSWER was a leader in the post-9/11 so-called antiwar movement that was actually acting in support of America’s terrorist enemies around the world. PSL is associated with ANSWER. Both groups came out of the communist Workers World Party in the early 2000s. Both groups have allied with Islamist groups to undermine the U.S., Israel and the West in the war on terror.