Aha Dua Permata: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Shut Down Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Shut Down Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

The protesters were seen in the street on the parade route. REUTERS

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was temporarily halted when a group of about 30 pro-Palestinian protesters ran into the street and apparently glued themselves to the pavement of the parade route in New York City.

The protesters were demonstrating along Sixth Avenue when a handful of them jumped the barricades and ran into the street along 49th Street.

In videos posted online, protesters can be seen demonstrating on Sixth Avenue near 34th Street.

They chanted "no more nickels, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes" and "Free free Palestine." They were also holding up Palestinian flags and papers that said "genocide then, genocide now."

The protesters are later heard yelling, "Viva, viva Palestina."

Officials said the protesters were taken into custody.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden called into the parade to give their thanks and urged Americans to "come together."

"We have to remind ourselves how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on the face of the earth," the president said. "Today is about coming together, giving thanks for this country we call home. And thanks to all the firefighters, police officers, first responders and our troops, some of whom are stationed abroad."

The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in 1927. It's been a holiday tradition ever since.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have glued their hands to 6th Avenue, disrupting the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; floats, bands and balloons are being diverted. pic.twitter.com/nYKLGyev87
— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) November 23, 2023

As NYPD officers tried to move the group, one of the protesters cried: “I’m glued down I can’t get up.”

“We need a cease-fire,” he screeched while still being unglued and carted away. “The Palestinians deserve the right to return to their ancestral land.”

“There’s an ongoing genocide and our planet is dying,” another said.

The demonstrators continued chanting while some were placed in handcuffs. The NYPD confirmed that several were taken into custody but could not provide an exact number Thursday evening.

“It’s pissing me off,” complained a parade attendee named Greg, who was visiting from Philadelphia.

“Do it somewhere else. Not today, they’re ruining the parade. They super-glued their hands to the street. These people worked hard to be in this parade.”

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Bronx) called the disruption “sick.

People being arrested during the incident. FNTV

“Protesters are disrupting a parade attended by thousands of children?! It’s beyond the pale,” Dinowitz told The Post. “They are pro-Hamas and anti-Jew. They are for the terrorists.”

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice chairman of the NY Board of Rabbis, also condemned the demonstration.

“No one at these protests ever seems to condemn Hamas. They fault the victims, not the perpetrators,” Potasnik said.

“History has taught us that hatred starts against the Jews but doesn’t end with the Jews. These people have no boundaries. They protest on the sabbath [and now] Thanksgiving.”

A Post employee who was enjoying the festivities with his 13-year-old son outside the News Corp building in Midtown said they had to retreat into the lobby of the building when several protestors in the crowd began getting disruptive – standing atop tall planters waving large Palestinian flags and shouting “genocide” and “how can you celebrate?”

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