Anti-Zionist New York protesters wave Palestinian flags, endorse 'global intifada'

Anti-Zionism protestors from a coalition of organizations marched to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in midtown Manhattan on Friday, wielding Palestinian flags and a banner reading "globalize the intifada."
 

Friday's march was part of the Strike MoMA campaign, which began as a series of 10 weekly protests which ran between April 9 and June 11, against MoMA's alleged complicity in war profiteering, environmental harm, dispossession of communities worldwide and association with morally corrupt billionaires. 

The 10-week initiative was founded by the Strike MoMA Working Group, part of a collective that called itself the International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings (IIAAF). 

Friday's march was part of Strike MoMA's so-called "second phase."

The model of the Palestinian intifada was chosen as a model of resistance against colonial violence and oppression, and "Globalize the Intifada" as the rallying cry of Friday's march, with banners also reading "Honor the Martyrs of Palestine."

The movement accused MoMA's Honorary Chair and World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder of being part of the so-called rot, deeming him "president of the Zionist lobbying group World Jewish Congress and a major Trump donor."

"No struggle is left behind as we move together and separately, but in agreement. At MoMA the frames of abolition, decolonization, anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism overlap in the course of struggle," according to the manifesto of the movement. These included both Israel and South Africa as being apartheid states.

A slew of organizations took part in the protest, including groups named Decolonize This Place, MoMA Divest and Direct Action Front for Palestine. Another group that participated was Within Our Lifetime, whose goal is to liberate Palestine and who names the US  and Zionism as two forms of colonial oppression.