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Ben-Gvir Once Again Cancels U.S. Visit Amid Calls to Prosecute Far-Right Minister

Far-Right Zionist and War Criminal Ben-Gvir was planning on visiting New York City and was ready to attend the United Nations Chief of Police Summit 2026 on July 7 and July 8.

This came with massive pushback by the pro-Palestinian advocacy groups and communities in NYC that saw Ben-Gvir visiting New York while committing attrocities in Gaza and directly committing crimes in the various torture prisions in Israel as a grave misstep of justice in a peaceful city like NYC. In those prisons, Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them who were tried under military court and never given a jury. Along with the reported horrendous conditions in those prisons and the recent laws pushed by Ben-Gvir to call for death penalties only for Palestinian prisoners, the move to come to NYC was very contentious.

As of 4PM today, he has cancelled his trip and will no longer be attending the summit.

haaretz.com
u/MountainManUIM — 3 days ago
▲ 50 r/protest

Some Photos I took at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center during the Hunger Strikes

Hey y'all

Here are some photos I took while out at Delaney Hall Detention facility in Newark from May 26th to May 30th.

For people who don't know what this is, Delaney Hall is a for-profit ICE detention center run by GEO Group and protected by ICE agents. On May 22nd of this year, over 300 detainees went on a Hunger and Labor strike to protest the horrible living conditions, moldy food, deteriorating facilities, and grueling labor. Protesters came out that weekend and were met with incredibly disproportionate violence against entirely peaceful protesters. Pepper spray, pepper bullets, tasers, and batons were used on the protesters, with the NJSP using tear gas canisters (banned internationally by the Geneva convention as it is a nerve toxin) on peaceful protesters.

As of June 22nd, the Hunger and Labor strikes had ended, with the detainees citing safety concerns, backlash against them during the strikes, and ICE breaking up the strikes by transferring leaders of the movement to other detention facilities. Today, Delaney Hall remains open, but mounting pressure from the community and the broader NYC/NJ area have tried to push lawmakers to close down Delaney Hall.

Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Shut down Delaney Hall.

u/MountainManUIM — 10 days ago
▲ 5 r/Newark

Some Photos I Took at Delaney Hall During the First Week of the Hunger Strikes

Hey y'all

Here are some photos I took while out at Delaney Hall Detention facility in Newark from May 26th to May 30th.

For people who don't know what this is, Delaney Hall is a for-profit ICE detention center run by GEO Group and protected by ICE agents. On May 22nd of this year, over 300 detainees went on a Hunger and Labor strike to protest the horrible living conditions, moldy food, deteriorating facilities, and grueling labor. Protesters came out that weekend and were met with incredibly disproportionate violence against entirely peaceful protesters. Pepper spray, pepper bullets, tasers, and batons were used on the protesters, with the NJSP using tear gas canisters (banned internationally by the Geneva convention as it is a nerve toxin) on peaceful protesters.

As of June 22nd, the Hunger and Labor strikes had ended, with the detainees citing safety concerns, backlash against them during the strikes, and ICE breaking up the strikes by transferring leaders of the movement to other detention facilities. Today, Delaney Hall remains open, but mounting pressure from the community and the broader NYC/NJ area have tried to push lawmakers to close down Delaney Hall.

u/MountainManUIM — 10 days ago
▲ 215 r/leftist

This is an IOF Zionist Settler from "Israel" and he is a disgusting monster. It is not Antisemetic to point that out.

Truly unacceptable that posting this person's disgusting face is considered "antisemetic" by mods of this subreddit, when many of us know all too well that obfuscating actual antisemetism with this only helps Israel and hurts the Palestinian cause.

Its not just Netanyahu, its awful humans like this guy, who carry out these heinous acts against peaceful Palestinians. To pin it all on the leadership and take away the blame from rank and file IDF soldiers is playing cover for a genocidal apartheid state and its war criminal actors.

Shame on the mods for calling all who find disgust with this face of hatred to be antisemetic. You cannot be a leftist and be this quick to throw Palestinians under the bus.

u/MountainManUIM — 13 days ago
▲ 493 r/HistorySnap+1 crossposts

The ~3,234 year old Egyptian "Merneptah Stele" identifies Israel as a distinct group of people living in the Canaan region Jews call the "Land of Israel".

1. The Individual: Jacob's Name Change to Israel

Timeline: ~4,000 years ago

  • The origin of the region named "Israel" begins with the (most respected leader of a group) patriarch named Jacob. According to the foundational legend Jacob took the name Israel ("one who struggles with God") because he believed he had wrestled with a divine being. At this stage, the name was purely personal, identifying a specific individual and his perceived experience.
  • This established a lineage-based, group identity, named after a man named Israel, from a place his descendents would then say is the "Land of Israel" (or "Israel" for short).
  • Indigenous Evolution: Modern research indicates these people were largely indigenous to the Levant, developing a unique "Israelite" cultural and religious identity from within the local Canaanite populations.
  • As Jacob's/Israel’s descendants (the twelve tribes) grew in number, the name shifted from a man to a well known collective group known as the Israelites.

2. The People: From a Family to the Israelite Civilization

Timeline: 3,234 years ago (1208 BCE) 

  • Archaeological Record: Non-biblical evidence for the Land of Israel being well known in Egypt is the Merneptah Stele, an Egyptian granite monument. It identifies "Israel" as a distinct group of people living in the Canaan region. It reads: "Israel is wasted, its seed is not".
  • Regardless of whether or not a man named Jacob/Israel existed: the Merneptah Stele uses the word Israel as in 4000+ year old Jewish tradition, to define both a place and its culturally unique people.
  • Jewish tradition still contains laws and holidays (some at least 3,300 years old) to celebrate Israel's agricultural cycles the Land of Israel depended on for food, survival. Passover (Pesach): Known as the Festival of Ripening (Chag HaAviv) marks the beginning of the spring barley harvest. Shavuot (Feast of Weeks): Known as the Festival of the Harvest (Chag Hakatzir) celebrates the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the summer wheat harvest. It was the time for bringing First Fruits (Bikkurim) to the Temple in Jerusalem. Sukkot (Festival of Booths): Known as the Festival of Ingathering (Chag HaAsif), it marks the final harvest of fruits and the end of the agricultural year in the fall. Tu B’Shevat: The "New Year for Trees," celebrated when trees begin to bloom after the winter rains in Israel. Today, it is a major day for ecological awareness and tree planting. Shemini Atzeret: Following Sukkot, this holiday includes specific prayers for rain to ensure a successful planting season for the coming year. Shmita: A mandated seven-year agricultural cycle where the land is left to rest and recover during the seventh year, often called the "Sabbath of the land". Tu B’Av: Historically a mid-summer matchmaking day that also functioned as a celebration of the grape harvest.

3. The Place: From the Land of Israel to a Powerful Kingdom

Timeline: ~3,000 years ago (1047–930 BCE)

  • United Kingdom of Israel emerged as a significant power in the Southern Levant under Kings Saul, David, and Solomon.
  • This era marked a peak of Hebrew unity, with King David having established Jerusalem as the capital and Solomon building the First Temple.

4. The Early Eras of Invasions and Identity Erasure

The land was frequently invaded by foreign powers seeking to control the strategic crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe.

  • Following the appearance of Israel as a distinct place and people, the Philistines arrived on the southern Levantine coast, beginning a multi-century effort to expand inland. Operating from five major city-states, the Philistines exerted pressure on the Israelite tribes, reaching a height of territorial influence around 3,076 years ago (1050 BCE) after the Battle of Aphek. This expansion reached its zenith with the death of King Saul at the Battle of Mount Gilboa in 3,036 years ago (1010 BCE), which briefly left significant portions of the Israelite heartland under Philistine shadow. However, the occupation was effectively halted and pushed back to the coastal plains by King David around 3,026 years ago (1000 BCE), ending the period of Philistine expansionism and establishing a stable, albeit hostile, border that would remain largely unchanged until the Assyrian conquests centuries later.
  • 2,766 years ago (740 BCE) Shortly after the Philistine occupation ended the Neo-Assyrian conquest began under Tiglath-Pileser III, who reduced the Northern Kingdom to a vassal state. This process culminated with the fall of Samaria and the mass deportation of its inhabitants, effectively dissolving the Northern Kingdom of Israel. While the Southern Kingdom of Judah survived a devastating siege by Sennacherib in 2,727 years ago (701 BCE), it remained a subservient tributary state for the remainder of the era.
  • Around 2,638 years ago (612 BCE): Assyrian dominance in the region finally ended following the fall of their capital, Nineveh, to the Babylonians and Medes, which dismantled the empire and shifted control of the Levant to the Neo-Babylonians.
  • 2,089 years ago (63 BCE): The Roman Invasion. The Romans destroyed the Second Temple. To attempt the erasure of Jewish identity, Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the region "Syria Palaestina"—after the Philistines (extinct Greek-linked enemies of the Jews)—to suggest the Jews no longer belonged there.
  • 1,388 years ago (638 CE): The Islamic Conquests. Islam was founded. Islamic Arab armies from the Arabian Peninsula invaded and captured Jerusalem, beginning a period of forced (cultural and linguistic shift not entirely ethnic) "Arabization."
  • 927 years ago (1099 CE): Crusader Kingdom. European Christians captured the land sacred to them, where Christians were being mistreated, but lost Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187.
  • 766 years ago (1260 CE): Mamluk Conquest. Based in Egypt, the Mamluk Sultanate defeated both the Mongols and the last Crusaders.
  • 509 years ago (1517): The Ottoman Empire. The region was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, who ruled for four centuries until World War 1.

5. The British "Mandate for Palestine" & The UN Partition

  • 106 years ago (1920): The British Mandate. Following the Ottoman defeat, the British renamed the Land of Israel to "Palestine" and everyone living in the region were called "Palestinians". Britain was tasked by the League of Nations with creating a "Jewish National Home".
  • 87–90 years ago (1936–1939): The Arab Revolt. Arabs and Arabized Palestinians fought the British to end the Mandate, stop Jewish immigration.
  • 79 years ago (1947): The UN Solution. The UN proposed a "Two-State Solution" (Resolution 181) to create an "Arab state" and secular Jewish-friendly state.
    • The Outcome: Jewish Palestinian leaders accepted the plan; Arab and Arabized Palestinian leaders rejected it, choosing war instead of a shared peace. Israelites/Jews in the "Land of Israel" were forced to defend themselves or be exterminated, by a culture and religion from the Arabian Peninsula.

6. 1948: Independence, Invasion, and the "Nakba"

  • 78 years ago (May 14, 1948), The Jewish Palestinian community in the British Mandate declared the independence of the State of Israel, which was immediately followed by an invasion from neighboring Arab and Arabized states. The 1948 war resulted in the Nakba, the displacement of 700,000+ non-Jewish. This exodus was driven by a complex mix of factors: direct expulsions of civilian populations in areas of resistance, psychological warfare, and panic. Simultaneously, some residents left due to the collapse of local leadership or localized instructions from Arab officials to clear battle zones. While some Jewish leaders urged their neighbors to remain, the broader conflict transformed the land from a region that had undergone centuries of Arabization into a sovereign Jewish-friendly democratic state.
  • 72 years ago (Sept. 6, 1954): The Jordan newspaper Ad-Difaa reported:"The Arab Governments told us: 'Get out so that we can get in.' So we got out, but they did not get in."
  • 78 years ago (1948): Azzam Pasha, Sec-Gen of the Arab League, declared:"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre."
  • Memoirs of Khaled al-Azm (Syrian PM 1948-49):"We ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave... we brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees."

7. The Aftermath: Two Different Realities

  • The "Stayers": Roughly 150,000 ignored the orders to leave and stayed in the secular land named Israel. Today, their descendants are among the 2 million+ Arab Israelis who now enjoy full voting rights, serve in the Knesset (Parliament), and sit on the Supreme Court.
  • The "Leavers": Those who followed the orders of the invading Arab armies moved to Gaza, the West Bank, or surrounding countries. They lost the war and were largely kept in refugee status by their own leadership to be used as political leverage to "return" to land they vacated.
  • Jordan and Egypt occupied/ruled West Bank and Gaza (1948–1967): Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jordan took control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip, except for a brief interruption in 1956.
  • Jordan annexed the West Bank (1950): On April 24, 1950, Jordan formally annexed the West Bank. This action was not widely recognized internationally, with only the UK, Iraq, and Pakistan granting recognition.
  • No Palestinian Sovereignty Granted (1948–1967): During the 19 years of Jordanian and Egyptian rule, there was no independent Palestinian state or sovereignty established in the West Bank or Gaza. Jordan granted citizenship to West Bank Palestinians, but Egypt did not for those in Gaza.
  • Impact of 1967: As a preemptive measure against an imminent attack, Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt during the 1967 Six-Day War.
u/GaryGaulin — 1 month ago
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Zionists Attack and Antagonize Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Brooklyn Land Sale Protest

This is Zionism.

On May 11, 2026, hundreds took to the streets of Midwood, Brooklyn, to protest an internationally-illegal land sale of stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.

In counter protest to the pro-Palestine side, Zionists came out in numbers to harass, attack, berate, and throw hateful slurs and antisemitic tropes at the protesters. This is the footage of those who stood on the side of the illegal land sale, on the side of the genocide in Gaza.

Members of the far right group Betar US, including Ronen Levy, and former head of Betar Ross Glick. Many Zionists came to antagonize, attack, and even went as far as to throw eggs at the peaceful Palestinian protesters.

This is the face of Zionism. This is what Zionism is. A disgusting ideology that rots the brains of its followers. A racist ideology where they are supreme and those below them, especially Palestinian, are inferior and "Amalek" An ethno-supremacist fascist ideology of bigots, terror supporters, and white supremacists.

Fuck Zionism. Fuck Israel. Free Palestine. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/protest+1 crossposts

3 Minutes of Zionists Antagonizing and Attacking the Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Brooklyn Land Sale Protest

This is Zionism.

On May 11, 2026, hundreds took to the streets of Midwood, Brooklyn, to protest an internationally-illegal land sale of stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.

In counter protest to the pro-Palestine side, Zionists came out in numbers to harass, attack, berate, and throw hateful slurs and antisemitic tropes at the protesters. This is the footage of those who stood on the side of the illegal land sale, on the side of the genocide in Gaza.

Members of the far right group Betar US, including Ronen Levy, and former head of Betar Ross Glick. Many Zionists came to antagonize, attack, and even went as far as to throw eggs at the peaceful Palestinian protesters.

This is the face of Zionism. This is what Zionism is. A disgusting ideology that rots the brains of its followers. A racist ideology where they are supreme and those below them, especially Palestinian, are inferior and "Amalek" An ethno-supremacist fascist ideology of bigots, terror supporters, and white supremacists.

Fuck Zionism. Fuck Israel. Free Palestine. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.

instagram.com
u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/newyorkcity+1 crossposts

I Attended the Midwood Land Sale Protest on Monday. Here are my thoughts

I was at the protest, and ill try to give my account of what happened before, during, and after it because many people are going off of hearsay and reading articles or watching highly edited clips to solidify the narrative they follow.

Monday, May 11th, the Synagogue Young Israel of Midwood held an internationally-illegal land sale that included the sale of stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, with the intent on selling it to settlers who would go and displace Palestinian families in the West Bank. Aside from the clear moral quandaries of selling stolen land, this sale was illegal under international law ( Under Article 49 of the Geneva Convention, settlements have been determined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2004 to be serious breaches of international law, constituting war crimes) and illegal based on NYC and American laws (The Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination in housing sales based on several protected characteristics, including religion, ethnicity, and national origin. U.S. real estate agencies are bound by both their state and federal laws to ensure that the sale of property is open to all prospective buyers) This is the context behind the land sale that was being protested, and the context is completely absent in much of the pro-Israeli side of framing this protest as being "against jews" or "antisemetic".

Anyways, I got to the protest at 5:15, about an hour and 15 before the Palestinian contigent was supposed to arrive. There were small amounts of barriers up around Young Israel of Midwood and about 30 or 40 police officers. They immediately began blocking off the entire block of Ocean and Ave L. There was a small pro-Israel group there already, and they soon formed a larger group across the street from where the land sale was taking place.

I was moved to the press area, which was stationed next to the pro-Israeli group. I was filming the event, and one of the members of the pro-Israeli side recognized me. I am openly pro-Palestinian and have covered other land sales in NYC, and was quickly surrounded by around 20 or so zionists, jeering and yelling at me. I was pulled into the police barrier by the NYPD and moved to a different area.

After a while, the anti-zionist Hasidic group Neturei Karta arrived with a few pro-Palestinian protesters around 6:15 or so. Immediately, the pro-Israel side began yelling insults, slurs, and horrible hate speech at the members of Neturei Karta. Things like "Kapo" and calling them "not jews" and one protester even began calling them "rats" which is a known antisemetic trope. This went on for 5 or so minutes as the pro-Palestine side began their chants. Every few minutes, another pro-Israeli protester would walk by Neturei Karta and yell an obscenity or slur at them, and multiple times the police had to step in to defend the peaceful Neturei Karta group.

Another section of the pro Palestinian protest group was held at Ocean and Ave M by NYPD. I headed over there, and it was a lot more contentious. As I walked over, i had multiple people walk by me and the people i was walking with (who were wearing keffiyehs) and had slurs and threats leveled against us. The Ave M group was surrounded by NYPD and the zionist group, with multiple places of the two protesting groups clashing, yelling at each other woth NYPD standing in between. A few times, both groups instigated small scuffles.

A zionist threw eggs at the pro-palestine side, and one hit a cop, which caused the NYPD to arrest the two people who threw them. A huge group of Zionists followed the police to their car, yelling and trying to get their two people de-arrested. The pro-Palestine side got ready to march to meet with the Neturei Karta group, which had been sectioned off on Ocean and unable to march to them directly. So the pro-Palestine side began marching East down Ave M towards E 19th or 18th. We marched north on either 18th or 19th, with a large group of pro-Israel supporters running alongside the march, instigating fights, yelling obscenities, spitting on the hasidic group marching with us, and antagonizing the march as it moved peacefully through the surround neighborhood (again, only done because the NYPD wouldnt let us meet with our other group safely)

During the march, the NYPD was completely absent, and multiple fights broke out, instigated (from what I could tell) primarily by the pro-Israel side. There were chants during the march, matched equally by "death to arabs" chanted in hebrew, along with "USA" and "Am Yisrael Chai".

We made it to the other group at Ave L after marching a large circle around the block to reunite. The muslim members of the march prayed, and the members of Neturei Karta put up their banners to shield them from the pro-Israeli group that had surrounded the pro-Palestine group on all 3 sides (the final side being the NYPD barrier). It was around this time I noticed a lone marcher flying a Hezbollah flag. Compared to the various members of the pro-Israel side wearing IDF uniforms and shirts, multiple Jewish Defense League Shirts, and tons of Israeli flags, the media and cycle seemed to have locked onto the lone Hezbollah flag flown by a single member of the pro-Palestine group.

After a while, and a few small scuffles on both sides, the pro-Palestine side began marching towards the Ave H stop on the Q to disperse the protest (it was around 9pm at this time) in order to keep the pro-Palestinian protesters safe, as other protests ended with dispersals that led to members of the pro-Palestine side being targeted, harrassed, and attacked by large groups of Zionist antagonizers (Eastern Parkway Protest April 28, 2025).

Along this march, there were multiple times where zionists targeted pro-Palestinian protesters that fell behind the march, being berated and harassed. Multiple pro-Israeli agitators used high powered flashlights and flashing devices on pro-Palestinian protesters, shining them directly into people's eyes and cameras. Tons of hateful slurs, rhetoric, and violent threats were hurled at the pro-Palestinian march all the way to the train stop. As the protest ended, multiple zionists using noisemakers played loud sirens and noises against the pro-Palestine side as they were dispersing.

All throughout the protest, the pro-Israeli side was the main agitator, attacking and provoking, making verbal threats, spitting, and grabbing flags of the pro-Palestinian side. The footage edited to show violence against the pro-Israeli side was done deliberately to set up a narrative of violent pro-Palestine protesters attacking and invading a jewish neighborhood. What wasnt shown was the many jewish protesters on the Palestinian side being harassed, called Kapos and rats, and attacked alongside the other Palestinian protesters. This was a one-sided peaceful protest, where the Palestinian side was restrained, attacked, and threatened, while the pro-Israeli group chased, harassed and threw slurs and insults the entire evening.

That was my recollection of the day, and the way that the media and pro-israeli groups have framed it is completely devoid of the reality of being there. This was an illegal land sale, hosted at a Synagogue BECAUSE of the optics of protesting in front of a Synagogue. Its a defensive mechanism, and makes any pushback against this illegal sale of land look antisemetic by default. It never takes into account the countless Jewish people on the side of Palestine protesting against these real estate events.

I hope my account can help dispell some of the horrible misinformation floating around the entire event. If anyone wants proof of anything Ive mentioned here, I can link video showing everything I mentioned. I hope these horrific land sales end, and if a Synagogue does not want to be protested, it should simply not host an illegal land sale of Palestinian land in real estate events.

pix11.com
u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 154 r/newyorkcity+2 crossposts

I Attended the Midwood Land Sale Protest on Monday. Here are my thoughts

I was at the protest, and ill try to give my account of what happened before, during, and after it because many people are going off of hearsay and reading articles or watching highly edited clips to solidify the narrative they follow.

On Monday, May 11th, the Synagogue Young Israel of Midwood held an internationally-illegal land sale that included the sale of stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, with the intent on selling it to settlers who would go and displace Palestinian families in the West Bank. Aside from the clear moral quandaries of selling stolen land, this sale was illegal under international law ( Under Article 49 of the Geneva Convention, settlements have been determined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2004 to be serious breaches of international law, constituting war crimes) and illegal based on NYC and American laws (The Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination in housing sales based on several protected characteristics, including religion, ethnicity, and national origin. U.S. real estate agencies are bound by both their state and federal laws to ensure that the sale of property is open to all prospective buyers) This is the context behind the land sale that was being protested, and the context is completely absent in much of the pro-Israeli side of framing this protest as being "against jews" or "antisemetic".

Anyways, I got to the protest at 5:15, about an hour and 15 before the Palestinian contigent was supposed to arrive. There were small amounts of barriers up around Young Israel of Midwood and about 30 or 40 police officers. They immediately began blocking off the entire block of Ocean and Ave L. There was a small pro-Israel group there already, and they soon formed a larger group across the street from where the land sale was taking place.

I was moved to the press area, which was stationed next to the pro-Israeli group. I was filming the event, and one of the members of the pro-Israeli side recognized me. I am openly pro-Palestinian and have covered other land sales in NYC, and was quickly surrounded by around 20 or so zionists, jeering and yelling at me. I was pulled into the police barrier by the NYPD and moved to a different area.

After a while, the anti-zionist Hasidic group Neturei Karta arrived with a few pro-Palestinian protesters around 6:15 or so. Immediately, the pro-Israel side began yelling insults, slurs, and horrible hate speech at the members of Neturei Karta. Things like "Kapo" and calling them "not jews" and one protester even began calling them "rats" which is a known antisemetic trope. This went on for 5 or so minutes as the pro-Palestine side began their chants. Every few minutes, another pro-Israeli protester would walk by Neturei Karta and yell an obscenity or slur at them, and multiple times the police had to step in to defend the peaceful Neturei Karta group.

Another section of the pro Palestinian protest group was held at Ocean and Ave M by NYPD. I headed over there, and it was a lot more contentious. As I walked over, i had multiple people walk by me and the people i was walking with (who were wearing keffiyehs) and had slurs and threats leveled against us. The Ave M group was surrounded by NYPD and the zionist group, with multiple places of the two protesting groups clashing, yelling at each other woth NYPD standing in between. A few times, both groups instigated small scuffles.

A zionist threw eggs at the pro-palestine side, and one hit a cop, which caused the NYPD to arrest the two people who threw them. A huge group of Zionists followed the police to their car, yelling and trying to get their two people de-arrested. The pro-Palestine side got ready to march to meet with the Neturei Karta group, which had been sectioned off on Ocean and unable to march to them directly. So the pro-Palestine side began marching East down Ave M towards E 19th or 18th. We marched north on either 18th or 19th, with a large group of pro-Israel supporters running alongside the march, instigating fights, yelling obscenities, spitting on the hasidic group marching with us, and antagonizing the march as it moved peacefully through the surround neighborhood (again, only done because the NYPD wouldnt let us meet with our other group safely)

During the march, the NYPD was completely absent, and multiple fights broke out, instigated (from what I could tell) primarily by the pro-Israel side. There were chants during the march, matched equally by "death to arabs" chanted in hebrew, along with "USA" and "Am Yisrael Chai".

We made it to the other group at Ave L after marching a large circle around the block to reunite. The muslim members of the march prayed, and the members of Neturei Karta put up their banners to shield them from the pro-Israeli group that had surrounded the pro-Palestine group on all 3 sides (the final side being the NYPD barrier). It was around this time I noticed a lone marcher flying a Hezbollah flag. Compared to the various members of the pro-Israel side wearing IDF uniforms and shirts, multiple Jewish Defense League Shirts, and tons of Israeli flags, the media and cycle seemed to have locked onto the lone Hezbollah flag flown by a single member of the pro-Palestine group.

After a while, and a few small scuffles on both sides, the pro-Palestine side began marching towards the Ave H stop on the Q to disperse the protest (it was around 9pm at this time) in order to keep the pro-Palestinian protesters safe, as other protests ended with dispersals that led to members of the pro-Palestine side being targeted, harrassed, and attacked by large groups of Zionist antagonizers (Eastern Parkway Protest April 28, 2025).

Along this march, there were multiple times where zionists targeted pro-Palestinian protesters that fell behind the march, being berated and harassed. Multiple pro-Israeli agitators used high powered flashlights and flashing devices on pro-Palestinian protesters, shining them directly into people's eyes and cameras. Tons of hateful slurs, rhetoric, and violent threats were hurled at the pro-Palestinian march all the way to the train stop. As the protest ended, multiple zionists using noisemakers played loud sirens and noises against the pro-Palestine side as they were dispersing.

All throughout the protest, the pro-Israeli side was the main agitator, attacking and provoking, making verbal threats, spitting, and grabbing flags of the pro-Palestinian side. The footage edited to show violence against the pro-Israeli side was done deliberately to set up a narrative of violent pro-Palestine protesters attacking and invading a jewish neighborhood. What wasnt shown was the many jewish protesters on the Palestinian side being harassed, called Kapos and rats, and attacked alongside the other Palestinian protesters. This was a one-sided peaceful protest, where the Palestinian side was restrained, attacked, and threatened, while the pro-Israeli group chased, harassed and threw slurs and insults the entire evening.

That was my recollection of the day, and the way that the media and pro-israeli groups have framed it is completely devoid of the reality of being there. This was an illegal land sale, hosted at a Synagogue BECAUSE of the optics of protesting in front of a Synagogue. Its a defensive mechanism, and makes any pushback against this illegal sale of land look antisemetic by default. It never takes into account the countless Jewish people on the side of Palestine protesting against these real estate events.

I hope my account can help dispell some of the horrible misinformation floating around the entire event. If anyone wants proof of anything Ive mentioned here, I can link video showing everything I mentioned. I hope these horrific land sales end, and if a Synagogue does not want to be protested, it should simply not host an illegal land sale of Palestinian land in real estate events.

reddit.com
u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 668 r/leftist+1 crossposts

I got targeted by Canary Mission for protesting an illegal land sale in NYC

I've been getting nonstop harassment by zionist bots on instagram. I don't care tbh, but i know this shitty org can really negatively affect anyone targeted. Wont stop me from protesting these illegal stolen land sales until Palestine is free

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 74 r/OldPhotosInRealLife

1940s Los Angeles vs LA Noire (Part 5)

Hey y'all, this is the final comparison post I'll be making for a bit. I am currently working on a long-form video for YouTube about how accurate LA Noire's map is to 1947 Los Angeles, so if you're interested in that, I'll post it here when its done! I'll also be posting a bunch of other comparisons when that video's done as well. I'm so glad everyone's been enjoying this series and I'll be back soon!

  1. Herbert's Drive-In (Located at Beverly and Fairfax, outside of game) appears as Joe's diner. The footage is home-footage from the late 1940s, shot around Los Angeles.
  2. Sardi's Restaurant on Hollywood Blvd. This one is about as close to 1:1 as I've seen in game. Photo is from the mid 1940s.
  3. Bamba Club at 626 N Spring St in Downtown Los Angeles. Featured heavily in the Noir films "Kiss Me Deady" and "Criss Cross". The photo was taken in the 1946.
  4. Backside of Main Street Terminal at 6th and Main, also known as the Pacific Electric Building. Photo is from 1945.
  5. Top of Richfield Tower at the corner of 6th and Flower. It was demolished in 1969, the only thing that remains of the original building is the black and gold elevator doors. Video was taken in the late 1940s as promotional material for Los Angeles and Southern California.

Hope you enjoyed! Will be back soon with more posts like these!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 111 r/VintageLA

1940s Los Angeles vs LA Noire (Part 5)

Hey y'all, this is the final comparison post I'll be making for a bit. I am currently working on a long-form video for YouTube about how accurate LA Noire's map is to 1947 Los Angeles, so if you're interested in that, I'll post it here when its done! I'll also be posting a bunch of other comparisons when that video's done as well. I'm so glad everyone's been enjoying this series and I'll be back soon!

  1. Sardi's Restaurant on Hollywood Blvd. This one is about as close to 1:1 as I've seen in game. Photo is from the mid 1940s.

  2. Herbert's Drive-In (Located at Beverly and Fairfax, outside of game) appears as Joe's diner. The footage is home-footage from the late 1940s, shot around Los Angeles.

  3. Bamba Club at 626 N Spring St in Downtown Los Angeles. Featured heavily in the Noir films "Kiss Me Deady" and "Criss Cross". The photo was taken in the 1946.

  4. Backside of Main Street Terminal at 6th and Main, also known as the Pacific Electric Building. Photo is from 1945.

  5. Top of Richfield Tower at the corner of 6th and Flower. It was demolished in 1969, the only thing that remains of the original building is the black and gold elevator doors. Video was taken in the late 1940s as promotional material for Los Angeles and Southern California.

Hope you enjoyed! Will be back soon with more posts like these!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 202 r/lanoire

LA Noire vs Real Life 1940s Los Angeles (Part 5)

Hey y'all, this is the final comparison post I'll be making for a bit. I am currently working on a long-form video for YouTube about how accurate LA Noire's map is to 1947 Los Angeles, so if you're interested in that, I'll post it here when its done! I'll also be posting a bunch of other comparisons when that video's done as well. I'm so glad everyone's been enjoying this series and I'll be back soon!

  1. Sardi's Restaurant on Hollywood Blvd. This one is about as close to 1:1 as I've seen in game

  2. Herbert's Drive-In (Located at Beverly and Fairfax, outside of game) appears as Joe's diner

  3. Bamba Club at 626 N Spring St in Downtown Los Angeles. Featured heavily in the Noir films "Kiss Me Deady" and "Criss Cross"

  4. Backside of Main Street Terminal at 6th and Main, also known as the Pacific Electric Building

  5. Top of Richfield Tower at the corner of 6th and Flower. It was demolished in 1969, the only thing that remains of the original building is the black and gold elevator doors

Hope you enjoyed! Will be back soon with more posts like these!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 97 r/OldPhotosInRealLife

Hey y'all, here are a few more 1940s Los Angeles comparison photos and videos to the 2011 game LA Noire. Let me know what you think and I'll post my last batch of them soon!

  1. LeRoy's Jewelry Co at 633 South Broadway portrayed in game as a general clothing store

  2. First Congregational Church at the corner of 6th St and Occidental Blvd with view of the Town House Building in the back left

  3. Biltmore Hotel, on the corner of 5th and Olive St with Pershing Square fountain in foreground

  4. CBS Columbia Square on the corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower St, shown in game with KNX, which was a regional radio station at the time

  5. Warner Bros Pacific Theater in Hollywood on the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox. Famous fro the two large Radio antennas on the roof, still there today

  6. The Mocambo Club, popular Hollywood Night Club, located in Game on Hollywood Blvd, was actually located in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. The interior is a near 1:1 with the real life club.

Let me know what y'all think and hope you enjoyed!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 87 r/VintageLA

Hey y'all, here are a few more 1940s Los Angeles comparison photos and videos to the 2011 game LA Noire. Let me know what you think and I'll post my last batch of them soon!

  1. LeRoy's Jewelry Co at 633 South Broadway portrayed in game as a general clothing store. The photo is from the early 1940s during a huge rainstorm that led to severe flooding in the Downtown area. Sandbags can be seen to stop water from entering the store.

  2. First Congregational Church at the corner of 6th St and Occidental Blvd with view of the Town House Building in the back left. The First Congregational Church is the oldest Protestant church in Los Angeles, built in 1867. The photo is from the late 1930s.

  3. Biltmore Hotel, on the corner of 5th and Olive St with Pershing Square fountain in foreground. The video is from the mid 1940s and is filmed in color, which was rare at the time. The Biltmore Hotel still operates today.

  4. CBS Columbia Square on the corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower St, shown in game with KNX, which was a regional radio station at the time. The building is now a mixed use apartment and office space building called Neue House. CBS moved its radio and tv production out in the early 2000s.

  5. Warner Bros Pacific Theater in Hollywood on the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox. Famous fro the two large Radio antennas on the roof, still there today. The video was taken in the late 40s and shows a Pacific Electric Red Car at the bottom of the footage briefly. Most of the building and theater sit empty today or filled by various restaurants.

  6. The Mocambo Club, popular Hollywood Night Club, located in Game on Hollywood Blvd, was actually located in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. The interior is a near 1:1 with the real life club. The photo was taken in the early 40s during the daytime.

Let me know what y'all think and hope you enjoyed!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 210 r/lanoire

Hey y'all, here are a few more LA Noire comparisons with the real life 1940s Los Angeles. Let me know what you think and I'll post my last batch of them soon!

  1. LeRoy's Jewelry Co at 633 South Broadway portrayed in game as a general clothing store
  2. First Congregational Church at the corner of 6th St and Occidental Blvd with view of the Town House Building in the back left
  3. Biltmore Hotel, on the corner of 5th and Olive St with Pershing Square fountain in foreground
  4. CBS Columbia Square on the corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower St, shown in game with KNX, which was a regional radio station at the time
  5. Warner Bros Pacific Theater in Hollywood on the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox. Famous fro the two large Radio antennas on the roof, still there today
  6. The Mocambo Club, popular Hollywood Night Club, located in Game on Hollywood Blvd, was actually located in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. The interior is a near 1:1 with the real life club.

Let me know what y'all think and hope you enjoyed!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago
▲ 189 r/lanoire+1 crossposts

Hey y'all, back with another post of 1940s Los Angeles and LA Noire comparisons. Let me know what you think of them!

  1. Hollywood Memorial Cemetery Mortuary off Santa Monica Blvd

  2. Vogue Bowling Alley in 1942 (Rawling's Bowling Alley in-game) on the corner of Grand and W 9th St.

  3. A Fruit Stand from the 1940s (inside of Von's on Olympic)

  4. Hollywood First National Bank Building on the corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave

  5. Hollywood Fire Station Engine Company No. 27 on Cole and De Longpre Ave

  6. Hollywood Police Station on the corner of Wilcox and De Longpre Ave

Let me know if you want to see more! It's been fun going through all these old places!

u/MountainManUIM — 2 months ago