A pro-Palestinian activist group shared a frightening map of New York City landmarks on social media, highlighting the building that houses the New York Post’s newsroom, Grand Central Station and the Museum of Modern Art — and calling for “direct action” to “globalize intifada.”
In addition to the News Corp building and the headquarters of NBC News and the New York Times, Within Our Lifetime, which describes itself as a Palestinian-led community organization, also called for followers to target the Chelsea High Line and the offices of Meta — which is ironically the parent company of Instagram, the platform the group used to spread its incendiary message.
“Each of the locations on this map reflects the location of an office of an enemy of both the Palestinian people and colonized people all over the world. Today and beyond, these locations will be sites for popular mobilization in defense of our people,” the sickening Wednesday night post read.
“May this map serve as a call for every struggle to act in their own interest. As we do so, we uplift one another’s struggles and free Palestine from the river to the sea,” it continued, repeating the Palestine Liberation Organization mantra adopted by Hamas that calls for the eradication of Israel.
The controversial post has since been deleted.
The group, which boasts 121,000 followers on Instagram, did not specify why the locations should be targeted, or what kind of action should be taken, but New York lawmakers have denounced the map, insisting violence is implied. Intifada is Arabic for a rebellion or uprising.
Democratic Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres warned on X Thursday that the messaging was an example of “Coded calls for violence against Jews” … ” that are “proliferating on social media.”
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, also a Democrat, wrote that it was “dangerous and reprehensible.”
“This is clear incitement against a group of predominantly Jewish institutions, based on the trope that they are ‘enemies’ of ‘colonized people all over the world.'”
In a statement to The Post Thursday, Levine added: “I reject this hateful language and am grateful that the NYPD is taking this threat seriously.”
Councilman Keith Powers, who represents Manhattan Midtown — which is home to The Post offices, Penn Station, Port Authority Bus Terminal and several other landmarks on the group’s list — wrote on X that the list was an “unacceptable invitation to senseless violence.
“I strongly condemn it & have reached out to the local NYPD,” the Democrat wrote.
Rev. Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice president of the NY Board of Rabbis described the map as “a message that glorifies physical attacks against Jews.
“Intifadas are targeted attacks on Jews,” he told The Post. “The hatred of the heart leads to hatred of the hands.”
An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that the department was aware of the disturbing map.
Meanwhile, Within Our Lifetime also hosted a “peaceful rally” in Washington Square Park to “demand an end to the current genocide and to call out universities who are complicit in it.”
The park is in the shadow of New York University, which was sued on Tuesday by three Jewish students for allegedly creating an atmosphere of “pervasive antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment and intimidation”
On Wednesday night, the group promoted an “emergency protest” outside CUNY School of Law in Long Island City, Queens.
The demonstration protested the “last-minute cancellation” of an event called “Fighting Against Complicity in Genocide.”
As pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests continue to erupt at college campuses across the nation, a new poll found that more than one in five college students support Hamas in the conflict, nearly as many as those who side with Israel.
The five boroughs also saw a 214% surge in anti-Jewish incidents last month as Israel pounded the densely populated Gaza strip with air strikes in retaliation for Hamas’ sneak attack on Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.
The death toll in the disputed region had surpassed 11,000, according to Hamas officials, who don’t differentiate between civilians and militants.
With Post wires