New York City protesters denounce U.S.-Israeli mass murder in Lebanon

Rain didn’t stop nearly a thousand people from coming to New York City’s Times Square on Sept. 29 to protest the assassinations and mass murder of Lebanese people by the Zionist apartheid regime. The emergency action was called by the Shut It Down Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Speakers pointed out that it was the U.S. supplied and paid for 2,000-pound bombs that murdered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and their fellow freedom fighters. Over a thousand Lebanese have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes by the attacks.

The U.S. first invaded Lebanon 66 years ago in response to the Iraqi Revolution that overthrew Big Oil’s puppet monarchy on July 14, 1958 — Bastille Day. The Pentagon invaded again in the early 1980s before they were thrown out by the Lebanese people.

Protesters were somber, defiant, and angry as they marched through Manhattan streets to the skyscraper headquarters of the New York Times. The newspaper has been lying about Palestine for over 76 years, before the Zionist settler state was established. 

Typical of the lying capitalist media was the New York Times’ Sept. 29 opinion piece, “Why the World’s Biggest Powers Can’t Stop a Middle East War.” The truth is that U.S. capitalism and its Biden-Harris administration just signed off on another $8.7 billion in weapons to Netanyahu’s killing machine.

Behind all the Zionist atrocities is U.S. and European imperialism. 

The French colonialists thought they had won the Battle of Algiers, but five years later, they were kicked out of Algeria. Lebanon and Palestine will win.