Enraged NYers rip anti-Israeli protesters for vandalizing WWI memorial, burning US flag: ‘It’s disgusting’
NY Post
Outraged New Yorkers on Tuesday blasted the “disgusting” anti-Israel protesters who desecrated a historic World War I memorial in Central Park and torched a US flag — insisting the unruly mob was “anti-American” and just spreading even more hatred.
Several Upper East Side locals stopped by to see the carnage for themselves after the latest wave of protests descended into mayhem late Monday as the star-studded Met Gala took place nearby.
“These people are just nuts and violent,” said Michael Skol, who has lived in the tony Manhattan neighborhood for 25 years, to The Post.
“Burning the flag is anti-American. It’s stupid,” he added. “It definitively doesn’t help Palestinians or the peace process. These are people who are not in the tradition of believing America is a good place. It’s disgusting.”
Anarchists vandalized the WWI 107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park, as well as the Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman monument in the nearby Grand Army Plaza on 59th Street during the Monday evening chaos.
Separately, at least one America-hating vandal torched the US flag.
