Little Palestine Responds to NYPD’s Nakba Day Rampage

When several thousand Palestinians and their allies gathered Saturday at the intersection of Fifth and Ovington avenues in the heart of Bay Ridge’s Little Palestine, they were greeted by legions of NYPD riot cops intent on marring the occasion. On Tuesday the event’s organizers returned to the same spot to denounce the police violence that was unleashed against them.   

“They come into our communities and call us outside agitators when they’re the real outside agitators,” said Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime Palestine, the Bay Ridge-based group that led Saturday’s protest. 

For more on the NYPD’s assault on freedom of speech in Little Palestine and the community’s response, see our latest coverage: 

Little Palestine Responds to NYPD’s Nakba Day Rampage in Their Community
By Amba Guerguerian

For more on Little Palestine, see our December cover story on the neighborhood and its people: 

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