Anti-Israel agitators boycotting Black Friday stormed a ritzy Fifth Avenue store in New York City Friday, disrupting shoppers and leaving four people arrested on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.<\/p>\n
About 70 rowdy protesters wearing keffiyehs blew whistles and waved Palestinian flags when they charged into the Zara store around 12:30 p.m., chanting, \u201cThey fund the genocide,\u201d to startled shoppers as police rushed to remove them from the Midtown fashion retailer, according to police and video footage.<\/p>\n
\u201cZara is a genocidal company,\u201d one demonstrator yelled, as others shrieked, \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 70 rowdy protesters boycotting Black Friday stormed a Fifth Avenue Zara Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Police rushed to escort the anti-Israel agitators from the fashion retailer.<\/p>\n
One protester wore a sign that read, \u201cWhile you\u2019re shopping, bombs are dropping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four were arrested during the raucous rally, with three issued summonses and 29-year-old Jersey City resident Vel West Arthur charged with criminal trespass, an NYPD spokesperson told The Post. <\/p>\n
Video showed at least two arrestees going limp as cops hauled them away. <\/p>\n
Four were arrested, including three who were issued summonses and a 29-year-old slapped with criminal trespass.<\/p>\n
The anti-Israel march continued down Fifth Avenue, with demonstrators holding signs, waving flags and chanting. <\/p>\n
The disruptive protesters continued marching south on Fifth Avenue Friday afternoon, banging drums, waving flags, chanting, blowing whistles and hoisting large signs, including a bright orange one that read, \u201cIsrael is killing children!\u201d<\/p>\n
Another sign urged stunned onlookers to \u201cThink before you buy,\u201d the footage showed. <\/p>\n
Protesters also carried signs urging stunned onlookers to \u201cthink before you buy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Protesters hoisted a bright orange sign that read, \u201cIsrael is killing children!\u201d<\/p>\n
An angry bystander was seen shouting at the protesters, \u201cF\u2013k you, you piece of s\u2013t,\u201d then walked off.<\/p>\n
The demonstrators later assembled outside an Apple Store and a Microsoft store.<\/p>\n
The rowdy crowd eventually gathered outside a Microsoft store.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft, you can\u2019t hide, we charge you with genocide,\u201d the wild mob screamed, footage showed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft, you can\u2019t hide, we charge you with genocide,\u201d the wild mob screamed, the footage showed.<\/p>\n
Police said the protest ended early Friday evening and that no active investigation is underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel agitators boycotting Black Friday stormed a ritzy Fifth Avenue store in New York City Friday, disrupting shoppers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,5990,575,61,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,104,4648,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-55273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-black-friday","10":"tag-fifth-avenue","11":"tag-israel-hamas-war","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-protests","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55273","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=55273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}