Protesters block the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and hold the street! No celebrating the genocide of the indigenous people of the americas, no funding genocide in Palestine pic.twitter.com/iH0mLlrVDT
— tracy rosenthal (@two__evils) November 23, 2023
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protesters unfurl a Free Palestine banner at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City pic.twitter.com/L17bwucE2S
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) November 23, 2023
#BREAKING: Protesters SHUT DOWN Macy’s Parade route by GLUING THEMSELVES to the ground, demanding “Liberation for Palestine and Climate” blocking Sinclair Oil Corporation Dinosaur balloon.#Thanksgiving#MacysParade
Video by Ken Lopez Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/ib2HM5QnYc
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) November 23, 2023
Enough is enough!
Let the kids go, Jews!
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the beloved Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday by gluing their hands to the middle of 6th Avenue and covering themselves in fake blood — before at least 400 marched on Midtown at the end of the annual family spectacular.
Several protesters — wearing white jumpsuits with protest slogans on their chests and backs and already splattered with red — interrupted the floats and balloons just before 11 a.m., forcing the parade to be temporarily halted.
They walked 6th Avenue with large signs including “Liberation for Palestine and Planet” while chanting the same slogan.
Several then pretended to be dead on the ground as others walked around pouring fake blood over their heads, covering the road — with their chants met by loud boos from spectators.
“Free Palestine! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” one of the protesters yelled, using a term widely taken as an antisemitic call to eradicate Israel.
The group also had other messages — including “militarism,” “racism,” and “ethnic cleansing” — written across their jumpsuits as several of them glued their hands to the ground.
As officers tried to move the group, one of the protesters said: “I’m glued down I can’t get up.”
“We need a ceasefire,” he said while still being unglued and moved.
“The Palestinians deserve the right to return to their ancestral land.”
Another said that they were calling both for “liberation for Palestine and the planet.”
“There’s an ongoing genocide and our planet is dying,” the protester said.
Demonstrators continued chanting while some were placed in handcuffs. It was not immediately clear how many arrests were made.
Normally, I’m not big on disruptive protests…
…but let’s be real.
Every American who is not standing with Palestine is guilty.
BREAKING: Activists in NYC for Palestine disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade from the Grandstand demanding No More Aid for Israel and Free Palestine! #ShutItDown4Palestine pic.twitter.com/qWK3tSpZfD
— Manolo De Los Santos (@manolo_realengo) November 23, 2023
BREAKING: INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts stands in solidarity with Palestine during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade pic.twitter.com/e6TNbqZp6e
— Manolo De Los Santos (@manolo_realengo) November 23, 2023