By Social Links forGeorgett Roberts , 
Social Links forJack Morphet , 
Social Links forCarl Campanile and Social Links forIsabel Keane
Published Nov. 23, 2023
Updated Nov. 23, 2023, 4:43 p.m. ET

As cars on West 42nd Street between 7th Avenue were brought to a standstill, a protester jumped on top of a yellow cab with a Palestinian flag. 

Another protester in a keffiyeh — a traditional black and white Arab scarf — leaned through the window and blasted the cab’s horn.

Other anti-Israel demonstrators masked in keffiyehs were also seen climbing a box truck on 6th Avenue to wave the Palestinian flag. 

One masked woman in an “intifada” shirt held a holiday-themed sign saying: “What’s your favorite Thanksgiving side? I hear it’s genocide.”

The demonstrators also defaced the New York Public Library, leaving handprints in red paint all over the two largest pillars at the entrance on 5th Avenue, as well as scrawling “Free Palestine” in green spray paint.

They also slapped up stickers that read: “From the US to Palestine, abolish the settler state,” “Zionism is terrorism” and “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza”. 

Marc Latham, 41, traveled from Delaware to see the cherished Thanksgiving Day Parade, but quipped that he saw “three parades.”

“I came for the parade. I’ve seen three parades — the balloons, the protesters gluing their hands to the street and being led off in handcuffs, and now this protest,” Latham said. 

“I just shake my head,” he continued. “Happy Thanksgiving.”
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