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Activists call for Israel’s end at ‘Quds Day’ rally in New York

Chants at Quds Day Rally in New York City’s Times Square include: “There is only one solution—intifada, revolution!”

Quds Day rally in Times Square, New York, on June 8, 2018. (MEMRI)
Quds Day rally in Times Square, New York, on June 8, 2018. (MEMRI)

A Quds Day rally was held last week in Times Square in New York City.

Activist Nate Chase of the World Workers Party said that Israel never has and never will exist, and described the “Zionist entity” as the “racist puppet” of U.S. imperialism. He led the chant: “We don’t want no two-state [solution]; we want all of it!”

Rokeya Begum from Within Our Lifetime led chants that said “globalize the intifada” and “smash the settler Zionist state.”

Joe Catron of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network led a chant that went: “There is only one solution—intifada, revolution!”

The event’s MC also led the chant addressed to the prime minister of Israel: “[Benjamin] Netanyahu, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”

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