{"id":34916,"date":"2025-03-03T20:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/anti-israel-protesters-who-wave-flags-linked-to-terror-groups-could-be-jailed-if-ny-law-passes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:48:27","slug":"anti-israel-protesters-who-wave-flags-linked-to-terror-groups-could-be-jailed-if-ny-law-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/anti-israel-protesters-who-wave-flags-linked-to-terror-groups-could-be-jailed-if-ny-law-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel protesters who wave flags linked to terror groups could be jailed if NY law passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-Israel protesters who wave flags of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah could face jail time in New York<\/a> should lawmakers pass a proposed bill.<\/p>\n

The office of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is a Democrat, confirmed to Fox News that the lawmaker is introducing the bill, known as the Stand Against Flags of Enemy Terrorists Act.<\/p>\n

The proposed bill, which the New York Post<\/a> first reported on, would expand the definition of aggravated harassment in the first degree to include cases where someone displays a symbol of a foreign terrorist organization with the intent to harass, annoy or threaten another person.<\/p>\n

Those found guilty could face up to four years in jail.<\/p>\n

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Hoylman-Sigal is introducing the bill along with New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher, who is also a Democrat.<\/p>\n

New York City<\/a> Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola, a Republican, told “Fox & Friends First” that she hopes the fact that two Democrats are introducing the bill will help persuade liberal lawmakers to vote for the bill.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve already criminalized burning crosses, swastikas and nooses,” Ariola said. “Why not this new wave of how to threaten and terrorize people of a certain religion or ethnicity?”<\/p>\n

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Ariola said that while groups like the American Civil Liberties Union may challenge the proposed bill on free speech grounds, the flags of terrorist organizations “are messages of hate.”<\/p>\n

Anti-Israel protests have popped up throughout the U.S. amid\u00a0Israel’s war in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attacks, which killed around 1,200 people.<\/p>\n

Last month, anti-Israel protesters were arrested at New York City\u2019s Barnard College after agitators took over a building on campus. A week earlier, violent clashes broke out in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New York City, where agitators chanted, “Zionists go to hell.”<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Kitty Le Claire contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-Israel protesters who wave flags of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah could face jail time in New York should lawmakers pass a proposed bill. The office of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is a Democrat, confirmed to Fox News that the lawmaker is introducing the bill, known as the Stand Against Flags … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}