{"id":576849,"date":"2026-08-06T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576849\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:08:09","slug":"anti-israel-protesters-target-tactical-gear-company-at-brooklyn-navy-yard-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576849\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel protesters target tactical gear company at Brooklyn Navy Yard &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (Aug. 6, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel activists protested outside Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wednesday, calling on the industrial park to evict Crye Precision, which they claim licenses its MultiCam camouflage pattern to Agilite, an Israeli tactical gear company. The company uses the pattern to manufacture helmets, vests and gear covers used by Israel Defense Forces soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the demonstration, which ended before 8 p.m. \u201cwith no incidents reported,\u201d a spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told JNS.<\/p>\n<p>In video and photos of the protest, demonstrators wore keffiyehs and played drums while shouting through bullhorns. In one <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbrPFS8lpZr\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">photo<\/a>, shared by a demonstrator, signage for companies that lease in Brooklyn Navy Yard has been vandalized with graffiti that reads, \u201cFree Palestine,\u201d \u201cDeath to IDF=ICE,\u201d \u201cF**k Israelis,\u201d \u201cGlory to Iran\u201d and \u201cF**k your rape apartheid genocide colony, burn in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Promotional material for the protest, organized by a coalition of groups, including CUNY for Palestine and Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DboaQcLHaAl\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">stated<\/a>: \u201cEasy Aerial evicted. Crye Precision: You\u2019re next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organizers stated that \u201cthe Brooklyn Navy Yard continues to house Crye Precision, which manufactures uniforms and tactical gear for ICE, the IOF and the U.S. military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Navy Yard <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/u.s.-news\/brooklyn-navy-yard-denies-it-ended-companys-lease-for-selling-drones-to-israel\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended<\/a> its lease with drone company Easy Aerial in February after the same groups called for its eviction, though the industrial complex told JNS that Israel was not a factor in its decision to not renew the company\u2019s lease.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 6, 2026 \/ JNS) Anti-Israel activists protested outside Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wednesday, calling on the industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-576849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}