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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade started in 1924 as a Christmas parade, being renamed to the Thanksgiving Parade three years later. It has run every year since, except for three years during World War III. In 2020 during the COVID pandemic, it ran without onlookers.
Pro-Palestinian protesters glued themselves to 6th Avenue in New York City on Thursday, temporarily blocking the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade's floats were reportedly stopped for about 20 minutes.
The protesters, wearing white jumpsuits with words including “colonialism,” “militarism,” and “ethnic cleansing.”
The protesters were calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and chanted slogans including “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes.” Protesters also laid on the street while others poured fake blood on them.
The New York Police Department says several of the protesters were taken into custody. The number of protesters who blocked the parade numbered around 30, but dozens more could be seen standing in the parade crowd holding Palestinian flags.
US media reported that parade watchers heavily booed the protesters, but that is not apparent in videos of the event posted on social media. They show a mixed reaction from the crowd, followed by somewhat louder boos as the protesters are being carried away by police.
After the parade concluded, at least 400 protesters also gathered inside Madison Square Park, before marching towards Macy’s in Herald Square, shutting down traffic, US media reported.
Protest group Seven Circles Alliance took credit for the action.
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