Journalist Asra Nomani encountered hostile anti-American and anti-Israel protesters at the June 14 #NoKings rally in Philadelphia, one of hundreds of nationwide events billed as demonstrations against President Trump.

PHILADELPHIA – Last Saturday, behind a phalanx of local cops, teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten stood on a stage in the heart of the city and pumped her fists in the air as she declared to a crowd protesting President Donald Trump: "We have to practice, not as a strategy, but as a way of life, peaceful nonviolence." 

It was a scene scripted to feel uplifting. Stage managers had set up the riser for the speakers right beneath the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where actor Sylvester Stallone famously filmed his iconic movie scene as boxer Rocky Balboa, running the stairs and then pumping his fists victoriously into the air.

SOROS-BACKED 'NO KINGS' RALLIES THREATEN AMERICA'S CITIES WITH PLANNED CHAOS

But the feel-good energy was suddenly pierced by shouting. A chant — scattered and distant — rose like a tide. As I drew closer to the intersection of Kelly Drive and Spring Garden Street, I recognized the familiar sing-song cadence that has marked chaos on America’s streets since the Oct. 7, 2023, brutal murders of Israelis by Hamas terrorists. 

"Free, free Palestine!" the chant began.

The response came right after: "Free, free, free Palestine!"

These were the same words shouted by Elias Rodriguez, an activist radicalized in the Party for Socialism and Liberation, moments after he murdered two Israel Embassy staffers on the streets of Washington, D.C., last month.

Then, another familiar refrain: "From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!"

"Donald Trump, you will see, Palestine will be free!"

As a U.S. Army veteran took the main stage, the chants shifted: "U.S. imperialists! No. 1 terrorists!"

"No. 1 racists! No. 1 fascists!" 

Then, unmistakably: "Globalize the intifada!"

Missing from after-action reports that Indivisible, the main organizer of the #NoKings protests, sent journalists was any mention of the radical flanks: the "Palestine Contingent," "ICE Contingent," and "Labor Contingent" that joined protests in Philadelphia, New York City, Sacramento, Calif., and other cities, according to reporting that I did on the ground and from afar. These "contingents" include self-declared socialist, Marxist and communist groups advocating for the dismantling of the American "empire." Thursday night, they were on the streets again, protesting "NO WAR ON IRAN!."

Through my investigation at the Pearl........

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