On Wednesday, pro-Hamas protesters held a disturbing demonstration in Times Square, with the waving of a Hamas flag, accusing Israel of “raping children,” chanting “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,” “There is no God besides Allah,” and “Raise the banner of the revolution.”

Protesters in Times Square Rally Following Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hizbullah Military Leader Fuad Shukr, Wave Hamas, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, Hizbullah Flags, Chant: The Martyr Is Beloved by Allah! Israel Is the Enemy of Allah! pic.twitter.com/ZnyOxCbstR

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The demonstration followed the death of the Hamas terrorist organization leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Tuesday in an apparent assassination. One demonstrator carrying a Hamas flag also “wore a hat with a yellow headband around it that represents the terror group Hezbollah,” The New York Post reported. One protester held up a sign with the acronym “ACAB,” which stands for “all cops are bastards.”

Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’ Politburo since 2017, spoke at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, three months after the October 7 massacre. He declared, “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it … the time has come for the Jihad of the swords,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.

“In 2012, when asked by Reuters reporters if Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle, Haniyeh replied of course not and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms – popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance,’” The Hindu reported.

In reference to “globalizing the intifada,” according to the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, during the Second Intifada, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians.

Just between May 2001 and May 2002, prior to the bombing at Hebrew University, there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 15 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bat-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matza restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.

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As EMET has reported, through Palestinian laws passed in 2004 and amended in 2013, Palestinians and Israeli Arabs convicted by Israel of involvement in terror attacks in Israel received monthly “salaries” commencing with their arrest and continuing for life for men in prison for five years and women for two. By 2016, EMET reported, the so-called “Pay for Slay” program handed out $315 million, roughly 8% of the PA budget of $4.4 billion.