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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were a part of a larger protest in Midtown Manhattan entered the New York Times building and occupied the lobby tonight.
It began when what looked like thousands of demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and signs that read “Free Palestine” and “End the Occupation Now,” gathered outside the building, chanting “shut it down” in unison.
Video from the scene showed a New York City Police car with “Free Gaza,” “IDF” and “KKK” spray painted on the side.
Some of the protesters pushed their way inside the lobby of the Times building and, according to reports, occupied it for about an hour.
Per the Washington Post, the group was led by a group of media workers called Writers Bloc. Once inside, members of the group read the names of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the war began.
They dropped versions of “The New York War Crimes,” a mock newspaper. The pamphlet accused media with “complicity in laundering genocide.” It also demanded that the Gray Lady publicly back a ceasefire in Gaza.
A statement obtained from the paper by the New York Daily News read, “The New York Times has extensively covered the Israel-Hamas war with fairness, impartiality, and an abiding understanding of the complexities of the conflict…We fully support this group’s right to express their point of view, even as we disagree with their characterization of our coverage.”
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