{"id":203109,"date":"2026-04-20T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:13:27","slug":"watch-palestinian-flag-flown-as-rioters-take-over-queens-street-jns-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203109\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Palestinian flag flown as rioters take over Queens street &#8211; JNS.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (<br \/>\n                                Apr. 20, 2026<br \/>\n                                 \/ JNS<br \/>\n                            )<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Police Department opened an investigation over the weekend after more than 100 drivers, some waving Palestinian flags, participated in a drag-racing street takeover in Queens, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiots with Palestinian flags\u2014not in the streets of Gaza, but in Queens in New York,\u201d Ambassador Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s envoy to the United Nations, tweeted around midnight on Monday, posting footage of the drag race.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05e4\u05e8\u05e2\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05dd \u05d3\u05d2\u05dc\u05d9 \u05e4\u05dc\u05e9\u05ea\u05d9\u05df &#8211; \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d7\u05d5\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05d6\u05d4, \u05d0\u05dc\u05d0 \u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05e1 \u05e9\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d5\u05e8\u05e7. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/un5MYmjIik\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/un5MYmjIik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny Danon \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 \u05d3\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d3\u05e0\u05d5\u05df (@dannydanon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannydanon\/status\/2046076751235661905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident, which involved many vehicles driving in circles, was first reported shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday, the NYPD said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>When police officers arrived at the scene, they activated their lights and sirens to disperse the crowd. Dozens of vehicles proceeded to flee the area.<\/p>\n<p>Several people jumped on the hood of a police car, causing damage and cracking the windshield, before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( Apr. 20, 2026 \/ JNS ) The New York City Police Department opened an investigation over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-203109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}