Anti-Gaza war demonstration dwarfed by pro-Israel rally
NEW YORK – A few blocks from where a giant rally in support of Israel would soon gather outside the United Nations, several dozen protesters, most of them young adults dressed in black, stood outside the midtown Manhattan office building that houses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, chanting the mourners’ Kaddish and reading aloud the names of the hundreds of Palestinians, and the Israeli soldiers, who have died since July 24th during the Gaza operation.
The effort was organized by “If Not Now, When?,” an ad hoc group of anti-occupation Jewish protesters.
Their demonstration was dwarfed by the “New York Stands With Israel” community-wide rally held outside the UN two hours later. That gathering, co-sponsored by UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council and Conference of Presidents, along with the Reform, Conservative and mainstream Orthodox movements, was attended by 10,000 people, said Shira Dicker, who has a public relations firm but was speaking as a rally participant. Being at the rally is “exhilarating,” she said.
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such a crowd of apartheid supporters?
Passers-by were not impressed. One middle-aged woman, who was walking toward the UN with a man wearing a black kippah said, when asked what she thought of the anti-war protesters, “they make me nauseous. I want to vomit on them.”
I can't help thinking you've been hanging out with a bad crowd. 
