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1,000 anti-Israel protests fail to disrupt Met Gala, burn flag instead #shorts
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0:58Now PlayingAnti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial in Central Park on Monday and burned an American flag after a mob of more than 1,000 marchers was blocked by cops from reaching the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala was in full swing. NY Post reporter Jack Morphet shares this story.
At least one America-hating vandal torched Old Glory at the site of the 107th Infantry Memorial, the base of which was defaced with graffiti reading “Gaza” in large black letters.
Others plastered the statue’s bronze soldiers with stickers of the Palestinian flag that read “Stop the Genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine.”
Some of the protesters climbed atop the infantrymen and waved Palestinian flags or draped them over the figures.
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