The head of a Hamas-cheering radical activist group was among the dozens nabbed when cops cleared out an anti-Israel encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, The Post has learned.
Manolo De Los Santos, 35, was spotted being hauled away by two NYPD officers in riot helmets near the West 27th Street campus on Tuesday.
De Los Santos, who had a Palestinian scarf draped around his neck, was pictured screaming as he was escorted from the area.
It wasn’t immediately clear if he was among those arrested.
In total, police cuffed 50 protesters during the FIT unrest, law enforcement sources said.
Cops moved in on the crowd roughly 10 minutes after warning those who failed to vacate the Chelsea campus that they would be charged with trespassing.
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De Los Santos is the leader of the Midtown-based nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF) that urged protesters at Columbia University to channel the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 before they violently stormed Hamilton Hall last week.
The agitator, who spent “years” in the socialist haven of Cuba, has made a career of spurring protests on the streets of the Big Apple.
As TPF’s executive director and de facto mouthpiece, De Los Santos has repeatedly spouted anti-Israel rhetoric of late – including hailing Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack as “heroic” and calling for Israel to be “erased from history.”
His encounter with cops during the FIT encampment bust is just his latest brush with the law.
De Los Santos was among the 10 protest leaders cops busted on Jan. 27 when hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators descended on Manhattan — partially blocking the Brooklyn Bridge and attempting to “flood” JFK Airport in Queens.