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‘It Is Right to Rebel! Israel, Go to Hell!’
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the Consulate General of Israel yesterday after a Hamas terrorist attack killed more than 900 Israelis. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
After the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, hundreds rejoiced on the streets of New York.
By Frannie Block and Olivia Reingold
10.10.23 — International
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Young girls in hijabs waved Palestinian flags in the street. Men in ski masks hung from scaffolding chanting, “Israel, go to hell.” And pamphlets rained from the sky, lauding the recent violence by Hamas as “heroic.” 

This wasn’t the Middle East. This was Midtown Manhattan, home to the second-largest Jewish population in the world after Israel, just days…

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Frannie Block
Frannie Block is an investigative reporter at The Free Press, where she covers the forces shaping American life—from foreign influence in U.S. politics and national security to institutional overreach and due process failures. She began her career covering breaking news at The Des Moines Register.
Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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