NEW YORK — Several hundred anti-Israel protesters demonstrated on Monday outside the NYU Langone Health Center in New York City.

The protest was organized by Within Our Lifetime, a hardline group that echoes Hamas rhetoric, endorsed the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and calls for Israel’s destruction. Dozens of activist groups in the city endorsed the protest, including student, socialist and pro-Palestinian organizations.

Organizers said they were targeting the hospital to “bring accountability for the destruction” of Gaza’s healthcare system.

The protesters chanted “Say it loud say it clear, we don’t want no Zionists here” and “Resistance is justified when people are colonized.”

Banners in the crowd included Palestinian, transgender, anarchist and Lebanese flags.

Protesters carried signs that said “Abolish Israel” and “Right of return.” Some held flyers with photos of Gaza healthcare workers.

“There is only one solution — intifada, revolution,” they chanted.

The crowd gathered in the frigid cold on the sidewalk across the street from the main entrance of the medical center’s Tisch Hospital. Dozens of police stood outside the hospital’s doors and patients exiting the building stopped to gawk at the protest. One protester scrawled “Gaza” alongside an inverted triangle, a pro-Hamas symbol, in snow plastered to a car windshield.

Around a dozen pro-Israel counter-protesters waved US flags. The........

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