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Anti-Israel Demonstrations Erupt Across US on October 7 Anniversary
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In Short: On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, anti-Israel groups rallied across the United States, with some demonstrations drawing hundreds of participants.
On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, anti-Israel groups rallied across the United States, with some demonstrations drawing hundreds of participants.
At 4 p.m., some protesters moved from Columbia University to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office at City Hall, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans like 'long live the intifada' and 'globalize the intifada.'
Demonstrators also gathered at Columbia University and New York University, with some chanting 'No peace on stolen land' and 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' slogans interpreted as calling for the elimination of Israel.
At Columbia University, approximately 100 demonstrators assembled, part of an ongoing 'Rage Week' campaign against the Israel-Gaza war.
The protests included chanting 'Glory to the martyrs and victory to the resistance' and referring to October 7 as the 'anniversary of the al-Aqsa Flood.'
Protesters at NYU carried banners demanding the university divest and close its campus in Tel Aviv.
In California, anti-Israel activists at UC Davis celebrated the terrorist attack, calling for 'glory to the resistance.'
Demonstrations were also planned for the weekend, with nonprofits in the network of Indian-American activist Ricken Singh organizing larger rallies.
Singh, who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017, has donated $22.44 million to the People's Forum Inc., and his wife, Jodie Evans, founded CodePink.
Mamdani, who earlier expressed grief alongside Jewish neighbors, said the suffering did not begin nor end on October 7.
A pro-Israel supporter confronted an anti-Israel agitator outside City Hall, leading to NYPD intervention.
Trauma psychologist Dr. Orli Peter, who founded the Israel Healing Initiative, criticized the demonstrations, saying they 'manipulate the public' and detract from mourning.
What's confirmed
- On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, anti-Israel groups rallied across the United States, with some demonstrations drawing hundreds of participants.
- Demonstrators also gathered at Columbia University and New York University, with some chanting 'No peace on stolen land' and 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' slogans interpreted as calling for the elimination of Israel.
- At Columbia University, approximately 100 demonstrators assembled, part of an ongoing 'Rage Week' campaign against the Israel-Gaza war.
- Protesters at NYU carried banners demanding the university divest and close its campus in Tel Aviv.
- Demonstrations were also planned for the weekend, with nonprofits in the network of Indian-American activist Ricken Singh organizing larger rallies.
- Singh, who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017, has donated $22.44 million to the People's Forum Inc., and his wife, Jodie Evans, founded CodePink.
- Mamdani, who earlier expressed grief alongside Jewish neighbors, said the suffering did not begin nor end on October 7.
- A pro-Israel supporter confronted an anti-Israel agitator outside City Hall, leading to NYPD intervention.
- Trauma psychologist Dr. Orli Peter, who founded the Israel Healing Initiative, criticized the demonstrations, saying they 'manipulate the public' and detract from mourning.
What's still developing
- "It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children."
- A Fox News Digital investigation revealed Singham has donated $22.44 million to the People's Forum Inc. Last month, CodePink, which was founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, marched alongside communist and Marxist groups in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.
- As students filtered in and out of the gates, now guarded by heavy security, demonstrators from The Columbia Intifada and others chanted "globalize the intifada" through a megaphone.
- Mamdani weighed in on the anniversary earlier on Wednesday morning, saying "we grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors" who are dealing with the loss experienced on Oct.
- On Tuesday, the People’s Forum collaborated with Shut it Down 4 Palestine to prepare for a separate protest that will take place on Saturday in Washington Square Park "to stand against three years of continued genocide in Gaza," according to their social media post.
- (Preston Mizell for Fox News Digital) Separately, anti-Israel demonstrators arrived at the gates of Columbia University at 2 p.m., where encampments and riots embattled the campus for years after Oct.
- Columbia University has been at the center of that controversy, becoming a prominent example of the surge in campus antisemitism reported across the United States.
- In May 2025, masked anti-Israel demonstrators occupied the university's Butler Library.
- Human Rights Council updated its blacklist of companies purportedly doing business in “Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory” in September.
- 7, he is set to meet with "Palestinian New Yorkers" following a vigil for the Israeli victims of the Hamas attack.
- Singham, a 72-year-old American who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, has funneled $278 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, according to a Fox News Digital investigation.