Thirty-four pro-Palestinian protesters were busted for disrupting the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, cops said Friday – including a man who once heckled a patron out of the establishment where he worked as a bartender because of the visitor’s Zionist views.
Alvin Dan, 32, of Staten Island – who this past April refused to serve a conservative Jewish journalist at a Bedford-Stuyvesant bar and taunted him, according to a lawsuit – was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest in connection to Thursday’s anti-Israel demonstration that brought the 97th annual parade to a halt.
The anti-Israel protesters’ most dramatic display came when they glued their hands to the middle of 6th Avenue and covered themselves in fake blood late Thursday morning.
Jay Waxse, 34, Natalia Scollo, 29 and Sarah Al Azzawi, 26, were also arrested Thursday and each charged with obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct, the NYPD said.
Scollo and Waxse face additional raps for trespass, while Scollo was also charged with resisting arrest and Al Azzawi was slapped with a harassment charge, cops said.
The other 30 people – whose names were not released – were issued summonses to appear in criminal court, police said.
The mayhem began around 11 a.m. when several protesters – wearing white jumpsuits emblazoned with inflammatory slogans such as “colonialism,” “ethnic cleansing” and “fascism” – forced the parade to be stalled.
Several then pretended to be dead on the ground while others walked around pouring fake blood over their heads – as a loud chorus of “boos” came from parade spectators.
The rowdy band of demonstrators then glued their own hands to the asphalt.
Soon after the parade ended, at least 400 protesters gathered at a pre-arranged meeting spot in Madison Square Park and marched toward Macy’s in nearby Herald Square, shutting down traffic as they shouted “Long Live Intifada” and “American public do you see? Your taxes fund our misery.”
The demonstrators also defaced the New York Public Library, leaving handprints in red paint all over the two largest pillars at the entrance on 5th Avenue, as well as scrawling “Free Palestine” in green spray paint.
They also slapped up stickers that read: “From the US to Palestine, abolish the settler state,” “Zionism is terrorism” and “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza”.
Dan previously made headlines back in April, when he allegedly refused to serve Elad Eliahu – “a proud Jewish-American,” Zionist and independent reporter – who was on a first date with a woman at Swell Dive in Bedford-Stuyvesant, prompting Eliahu to file suit.
Dan called Eliahu a “Zionist Fascist” and “falsely” claimed that Eliahu “harasses abortion patients” and “doxes people” through his reporting – all in front of the date and the other bar patrons, the lawsuit alleges.
Eliahu told his date to leave “for the sake of her safety,” the filing states. And when Eliahu started walking out, Dan allegedly recorded himself on video taunting and harassing the embarrassed patron down the street, according to the suit.
“Why are you walking away?” Dan allegedly says in the video, according to the suit. “That’s Elad, I can’t believe it, cannot believe that [he] has the balls to have a f–king social life.”
Dan also allegedly told Eliahu to never come back to the neighborhood, the filing claims.
Eliahu “was unlawfully ridiculed, discriminated against, denied service and kicked out of the Swell Dive on account of his race, national origin and creed because he identifies as a Zionist,” his suit charges.
Dan is also no stranger to arrests at the Big Apple’s protests.
During a September 2020 demonstration, Dan was being placed in cuffs just outside Washington Square Park for kicking a police car when he allegedly kicked and punched an NYPD captain and lieutenant in the face and body, according to court papers.
During that clash, fellow protester Devina Singh — who also has a history of protest-related arrests — allegedly leaped onto the captain’s back as he tried to arrest Dan, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan Criminal Court.
When a Post reporter visited Alvin’s home Friday, a young woman who answered the door said, “he doesn’t live here.”
Someone out of sight said, “close the door,” which the woman did without answering any further questions.