Anti-Israel activist groups are set to hold mass protests outside the United Nations building in New York as the General Assembly gathers this month, with smaller daily protests and events scheduled leading up to the attendance of the forum by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
During one of the daily protests against Israel, activists heckled Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Sunday as he walked in the vicinity of the international forum.
“Zionism is terrorism. All you guys are terrorists committing ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and Palestine. Shame on you, Zionist animals,” a heckler yelled at Danon, according to a video posted on X/Twitter by Within Our Lifetime. “You’re committing a Holocaust now against the Palestinian people.”
The protesters were at the UN under the auspices of Within Our Lifetime’s daily protests. The week ahead of the UN meeting is set to hold a series of events. WOL announced on Saturday that the week of assembling from Monday until Friday is set to feature lectures, dances, and anti-Zionist Shabbat services.
Within Our Lifetime is further set to “flood the UN General Assembly for Gaza” with a march next Tuesday, it announced on X on August 26. The anti-Israel group lambasted the UN for watching and debating while refusing to take action against a supposed genocide in Gaza.
“We will be there to confront them with the truth: Their silence and inaction enable genocide. The world cannot continue as if Gaza does not exist,” said WOL. “This is the time to make our voices impossible to ignore. Come to New York by any means necessary, to stand, to march, to demand the UN act and end the siege.”
JVP, Palestinian Youth Movement, taking part in anti-Zionist march
Jewish Voice for Peace and Palestinian Youth Movement are set to march from Times Square to the UN building next Friday when Netanyahu is scheduled to speak. The groups are calling for the arrest of the Israeli leader as a “genocidal war criminal.”
“The time is now for each and every UN member state to uphold their duty under international law: sanction Israel and end the genocide,” the activist groups said on Instagram on Wednesday.