Universities hanging Palestinian flag is ‘despicable’, says New York mayor

Eric Adams, the New York mayor, has said universities that allow Palestinian flags to be hung on campus are “despicable”.
At a press conference, in the wake of 300 arrests at Columbia University on Tuesday night, Mr Adams showed a video of officers dispersing the demonstrators, which ended with an American flag being restored.
“That’s our flag, folks. Don’t take over our buildings and put another flag up,” he said.
“It’s despicable that schools will allow another country’s flag to fly in our county so blame me for being proud to be an American… We’re not surrendering our way of life to anyone.”
Mr Adams said officers were still “processing” those detained to determine which were students and which were outside agitators.
He described how some had thrown bottles and garbage cans at officers, who showed great “discipline” in not bringing the situation to a “peaceful conclusion”.
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#NewYork #Columbia #palestine

[@michaeltudda8462]

It's about time, "Real Americans standup!"

[@Hallstien]

😭 stop

[@america6498]

Rare based moment

[@hunter--1]

But still kissing Israeli flag So his speech means nothing

[@Hallstien]

Educate yourself

[@america6498]

@@HallstienOn what?

[@Hallstien]

@@america6498 The genocide taking place in Palestine

[@JuanLegendre-ey9ty]

He is against the Palestinian flags however, he's going to do nothing.

[@DinkyBaltimore4364]

I guarantee this prejudice buffoon would NOT mind if it was a mexican flag.

[@jeffbuchmann9287]

He’s a lib..he hasn’t gotten the Libby memo from his Demi-god Obama what to do next..

[@praxedestejada2936]

And why are the Palestinian flags on the buildings? Students and professors who supported Hamas and their propaganda thought that they know everything about the history of Israel. They called Israel an invader or colonizer when in fact Israel has been there for thousands of years. The Romans renamed it Palestine to mock the Jews. During the Ottoman Empire, they invited the muslims from other Arab countries to settle in Israel since Israel was thriving economically and the came the British empire. But Jews have been in Palestine for thousands of years. Jews from other nations came back after the 2nd world war.

[@JuanLegendre-ey9ty]

@@praxedestejada2936 your absolutely right however, the woke will not admit that, deny it, and left will not accept that and all I can say they might as well get used to it because I suspect that Israel might take all of Palestine territories. I could be wrong.

[@haixinzheng9759]

​​@@praxedestejada2936 I mean, what is Hamas? Isn't it just a group that hardly had 20,000 members in Gaza? And people really think that Hamas is capable of buying off hundreds of thousands of protesters on the street, universities and even the United nations? These people are against genocide, not supporting Hamas.

[@user-tg5pq8bb9f]

That is called patriotism

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Patriotism is about fighting for the values of the country American values are freedom. Patriotism is not blindly following the status quo.

[@VictimCard..]

@@Demonoicgamer666 Tell me how on earth someone raising flag of other countries called freedom.

[@furrybear9416]

My parents are Scottish, I have the Ukraine flag outside my house should that be banned to?

[@trashboity8773]

He should say that to the pride flag same bs

[@theflipeechestlanjao7754]

America is too liberal 💀

[@SuperSar79]

Lool so true

[@manolososadavinci1937]

@trashboity8773 if they banned the pride flag then your daughter and son would be so offended and throw a fit as to why their flag is being banned

[@manolososadavinci1937]

@trashboity8773 if they banned the pride flag then your daughter and son would be so offended and throw a fit as to why their flag is being banned

[@adamhodgson8851]

At least the pride rallies aren’t based in hatred. But anyone sporting a Palestinian flag should be forcefully deported there. Send them packing… Seeeee yaaaa!

[@Skankhunt240]

From slavery to financial slavery, some never leave the cycle

[@moebreezy656]

Love this! Btw even at The Hague, they tend to bring African American Representative!

[@GO-pe2cp]

Wheres the fbi

[@thatguywhocleansaquariums4839]

Going after parents who expose school board perverts.

[@mjollnirteormyn6288]

Deport this guy to Israel 😂

[@someonesomewhere6667]

Solving real crimes, maybe! And not something that whiny man/woman cry about!

[@BizQAC]

@@MarioKapalka don’t focus on one little event, focus on the totality of events and the organization of the multiple organizations that plan these occupations.

[@pagimaidj]

Q sent me ...

[@NortyFlanker]

Disgusting!

[@mickeymouse8692]

Yes disgusting for forgetting his heritage and the segregation of the 60s

[@hellogoodbye177]

How come? It’s America not Palestine

[@kennymorrison7227]

​@mickeymouse8692 Ahh now your just being pathetic trying to tie the Palestinian terrorists to black civil rights .😅

[@W3-331]

​@hellogoodbye177 Stop bowing to Israel then.

[@moosky7344]

​​@@hellogoodbye177they're just trying to highlight the situation not taking over, of course America isn't Palestine and getting genocide happening, with the support, financing, protection from America enabling it to happen

[@coffeeshop46]

He's scared he's going to loose his job

[@jackiecordova1079]

He has done to much damage and know he wants to look good what a hypocrite

[@yelenashishkina8804]

This shows who really runs USA. Any time ✡ gets spooked government officials defend them. 😂

[@b.t.40yrs_ago]

*lose

[@vernatheodore6296]

He is as evil as the rest. We must forget

[@jackiecordova1079]

@@vernatheodore6296 he is also a hypocrite I can't stand him New York is destroyed with all this illegals stealing attacking citizens and he does nothing about it disgusting

[@psmith2714]

Gavin Newsome flew the Chinese flag 😮

[@boredalchemist]

epstein island isn't the only one

[@foxmclo]

It's amazing the people I supported do what they want... Why? (New York Mayor)

[@david1137444]

Mayor with BALLS!

[@hunter--1]

Shut the hell up

[@lindahorn9644]

Then stop it as UK should...

[@moizjatt]

Make us.

[@MrMARVELouse]

Yes any flag is not allowed,,,,, ohhh yehh except Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@AcesCosmo]

Proud NYPD & the UNC American students stood up & raised/protected 🇺🇸 flag! FAIL grade to University admin/leaders if they cave in to protestors’ demands to display other nations’ flags as another university did this week- University is not the United Nations Building and University admins/leaders should never cave in to demands to raise up another nation’s flags. 🇺🇸 is All it needs But if other student ethnic clubs want other nation/cultural flags, then to encourage campus unity & awareness, raise them at student “Unity” & “multi-cultural” events “Open to All” so all can “share in knowledge” AND with our 🇺🇸 American flag prominently displayed 😎🇺🇸

[@americanminotaur2518]

For anyone confused, he’s not upset that there were Palestinian flags, he’s upset because protesters lowered the American Flag, and replaced it with the one from Palestine. I don’t think it’s a secret how culturally important the American flag is to people in the US, so anything that is perceived as a slight against it is bound to upset people.

[@renarouge5558]

But the Pride flag is ok???

[@ShinSK]

Yes it is a form of speech

[@contrapasso1539]

No its a form of oppression. Away with the rainbow flag. America is already too divides

[@juehju]

Yes, but it's overused.

[@HowyDarko]

someone bring me up to speed.. is lgbt a country?

[@juehju]

@@HowyDarko Not the biggest fan, but good point. Its a political entity, not a country so it should be fine.

[@kamaldaud2782]

143 out of 177 countries in the United Nations supported the establishment of Palestine as a sovereign country.

[@1DeltaT]

❤🇺🇸well spoken; spot on.

[@reduk1999]

Finally someone of power and representative of a western country telling it it how it should be dealt with….all foreigners and immigrants should respect our values and freedom of choice, look at the back lash if we even suggest something like not wearing masks or hajibs ect it’s got to be a higher priority of our society and government to stand and put in place laws that protect us from this kind of nonsense from the outside world we are all in this together for a better future

[@mickeymouse8692]

He forgot his heritage only few decades ago his elders were fighting in similar fashion to change things Remember the 60s Segregated at the back of the bus

[@Susperia27]

reduk💯🔥

[@astroflyinsights]

But the police already are ripping hijabs off women's heads, even in public.

[@Ot_Ot20123]

I thought we were all immigrants and son of immigrant except the RI. Those are the only real land owners who can claim to be native.

[@Susperia27]

🥱

[@BanduluSisulu-ds3oy]

Hooligans in the name of Palestine

[@SB-hy9tq]

Well said!

[@Emirthemarvelfanboi]

109 countries banned them. I'm asking myself why?... #weknowwhoisinpower

[@MarvelFan_27]

USS LIBERTY

[@MH-ro1lg]

It's because wherever they are, they quickly rise to the highest socioeconomic levels, and that breeds resentment from the lower IQ majority population.

[@jamesmitch9792]

the Palestinians? those countries still won't give them citizenship.

[@leslie-annmills-gomez8763]

​@jamesmitch9792 what?

[@samihade2853]

​@@jamesmitch9792You know perfectly well who's being referred to here

[@Lily23112]

Wait, I remember seeing him raising the Israeli flag and the Ukrainian flag just a few months ago. Why is he acting like this? Where does he learn this double-standard mindset?

[@meatrealwishes]

Try: EXPOSED: Billionaire Zionists CAUGHT Controlling NYC Mayor

[@SuperServentofAllah]

I can imagine him flying the lgbt flag soon and the isreali flag just the way they flew the lgbt flag with the Ukrainian flag

[@ShinSK]

Comrade your not listening

[@mariamimi8497]

@@user-kq4hf8se5bbabies are immature, he/she made sense.

[@juehju]

@@mariamimi8497 No, comrade.

[@vertabray5064]

They are allies

[@kingdedede9135]

For once, the mayor and I agree!

[@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477]

“New York is the Gaza of America” -Eric Adam’s

[@aburyan19]

Proud he’s our mayor.

[@RandomNooby]

would his great grandparents feel the same way, I seriously doubt it...

[@thecfbutcher1174]

white liberal spotted

[@Fayssal207]

The ones inslaved by Muslim Arab 😮

[@ApoBeef]

Why would his grandparents support Palestinian rapists and terrorists?

[@azulaquaza4916]

His great grandparents would’ve existed at the end of the post civil war days, where the Union (the flag shown) fought for their freedom from the southern confederacy so yes they would. Learn American history before speaking

[@RandomNooby]

@@azulaquaza4916 'His father was a farmer, a Congregationalist (that is, Puritan) deacon, a lieutenant in the militia and a selectman, or town councilman, who supervised schools and roads. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline.'

[@alejandrojr.albarracin4432]

America ❤❤❤

[@DanielB_Music]

Adams best mayor of NYC! 🥳

[@Hallstien]

Condoning genocide is despicable

[@Owenalpe]

Imagine uk leaders started speaking like this

[@SpaghettiGodUltra]

Wow, Mayor Eric is actually talking sense for once!

[@TheSalvatoreflash]

God bless America

[@techhawk1543]

So u okay with the Pride Flag !

[@MayanMe365]

Only the American flag should fly

[@SolarShine]

Maybe all this is a really good thing! For the first time some of the people at the top are opening their eyes to what’s going on!

[@MOHAMEDOSMAN-zi8jz]

Bad man never

[@furrybear9416]

Is it despicable of me flying the Ukraine flag in American to even though my parents are Scottish?

[@HBOSTUDIOS]

This is a terror flag. well said Mayor!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@ashroland306]

A blame president Joe biden for all this nonsense..

[@SonderDAzeX-nc6vg]

Same guy walking and celebrating the ISrael Day Parade in NYC, does he hold the same contempt for waving the ISRAEL flag? Last I checked the Israeli flag ISNT the AMERICAN FLAG.

[@meatrealwishes]

When is he going to jail?

[@dominica4799]

its getting out of control.

[@libreverdaderamente4450]

But people do not want to call it an invasion, the great results of the welcoming every body from every and any where

[@airriccarioballadares622]

Defending your country? Us not defending us go on offensive.

[@garystursa1353]

Best speech I ever heard from him,see if he follows through

[@fall2525]

Oh please..they were waving the Ukraine flag in congress floor

[@RuEd294]

Highest respect for NYPD for taking down the Palestinian flag to re-hoist the US flag. Brilliant❤ The anti-american sentiment brewing on US college campuses is abhorrent. Sincerely Grad student at CUNY.

[@s-p-man5271]

The United States is a nation built by people from diverse backgrounds, so why make such a comment when it's evident that his ancestors hailed from Africa? Let's stop being prejudiced and look at the bigger picture. Those who spread hate will eventually face the consequences.

[@britepoi221]

He's African American

[@letsdisagree]

I thought it was land of the free?

[@dot0422]

Free US flags!!

[@andrea585ny]

Exactly! That's why they took the Palestinian flag down and put the American flag back up

[@rafaelthepunisher9758]

He should resign! 😮

[@jessebongo46]

Genocide is extremely despicable.

[@geraldgrieve4106]

What genocide?

[@timothypaulino8454]

I agree the targeted genocide on Oct 7th was despicable.

[@user-wf7pe3zb8q]

He would be perfectly fine if they were putting up The Star Of David flag....

[@locksmith7621]

yet no one tried to replace the American flag with Israeli only with the terrorist flag

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

​@@locksmith7621 "Terrorist flag"..They didn't wave the Israeli flag buddy...

[@ezywebsites5745]

​@@locksmith7621They don't have to put up a flag, when the world already knows who owns the US.

[@whtwht]

100%

[@juehju]

@@mirzahamzabaig5667 Haha good one comrade

[@Brutuscomedy]

Correction mayor: Palestinians have not received recognition of statehood. It's accordingly not "another country's flag."

[@aedt3]

He should go to palestine

[@jmcw9632]

NY is back!

[@JuanLegendre-ey9ty]

Not really.

[@raoulduke344]

Nah,his campaign donors just reminded him they can end his career if he doesn't so something about the support for Palestinians

[@DinkyBaltimore4364]

Yeah, back in the toilet, swirling.

[@moragmckay3779]

Back to its rotten days under Trump.

[@roadend78]

Free America from Israel 🙏🇺🇸

[@Bertie22222]

Free palestine from Hamas

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Clown

[@judahjayson684]

​@@Bertie22222free 😂 Israel from Genocide, occupation

[@Bertie22222]

@@judahjayson684 an english version please?

[@judahjayson684]

@@Bertie22222 Zionist are stupid, don't u understand Genocide and occupation it's associated with Israel

[@leainokuchi9650]

BRAVO Eric Adams, bravo. FJB.

[@jamiehardcastle4999]

But the wave Ukrainian flag in Congress what a joke of a country 😢

[@azulaquaza4916]

Ukraine has been attacked by the 2nd largest military and is fighting for its survival, Palestinians just run to other countries and scream

[@rasputin6190]

Thank god, Neywork mayor is not Muslim unlike London's mayor.

[@harshavijay3517]

Still better than Deblasio.

[@noMoreAIPAC]

It's only a flag. Your loyalty and your sympathy should be to God and country.

[@darvinmilevic7418]

If it was an Ukrainian flag he would applaud them.

[@danghoangluong2942]

Russian bot

[@darvinmilevic7418]

@@danghoangluong2942 bot yourself

[@gemmaevans9001]

Yessss ❤❤❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 protect the americans protect the USA

[@salsabila786]

Surely a foreign state lobbying Senators to vote for Israel ahead of USA is worse. Lets check all Senators and Mayors campaign funds, hundreds are owned by AIPAC and Israel. US Senators vote for Israeli Aid and interests ahead of US rights. Surely these points are more important than someone putting up a Palestinian flag.

[@user-qn7ui7sb1q]

Both are bad. Stop gaslighting and not holding pro Palestine people accountable.

[@jeannedarc7533]

@@user-qn7ui7sb1q I'd rather take the pro-Palestine people over the neocon warmongers, thanks.

[@Dave05J]

AIPAC is directed by American citizens. Israel is an ally of America. There are several lobbying groups in the US beside AIPAC btw.

[@jeannedarc7533]

@@Dave05J "AIPAC is directed by American citizens" Now this is a good one, quite funny I might say...

[@VictimCard..]

At least Israel talk about prosperity. But Hamas ?

[@s_gall889]

He wouldn’t be saying anything if it was replaced with the Israel flag.

[@locksmith7621]

yet no one tried to replace the American flag with Israeli only with the terrorist flag

[@s_gall889]

@@locksmith7621 There’s plenty of government offices and government officials with Israel flags. Even a congressman showed up wearing his IDF uniform. I guess fighting for other countries military is patriotic.

[@praxedestejada2936]

It is the Terrorists flag. Straighten your crooked thinking

[@vertabray5064]

@@s_gall889they are allies

[@tankman1814]

@@s_gall889 some soldiers fight because there following orders, some fight for what they believe in.

[@RajPatel-oy4jg]

He is on Israel’s payroll

[@Bertie22222]

The uneducated opinion

[@adamhodgson8851]

Better Israel than Palestine. At least he’s on the correct side then!

[@abuansari05]

@@adamhodgson8851why?

[@abuansari05]

@@Bertie22222how so? Seems like everyone is on AIPAC’s payroll

[@kerkefe6968]

They were hanging ukranian flags months ago, what's the deal

[@m.ddavid9645]

They should be sent to Palestine

[@bored833]

it 100% is!

[@moebreezy656]

He said it’s despicable to all another country’s flag when he was holding an Israeli flag few days ago

[@adamhodgson8851]

Then he’s on the correct side of things.

[@xijinbling2373]

Now protect free speech.

[@ShinSK]

Protesters hung the flag-at night the USA flag comes down unless there is a light on it.

[@robertsteele474]

All the "Patriots" forgot the rules they learned in Boy Scouts, apparently.

[@donramon9723]

Eric Adams, sounding a bit Fascist.

[@paxundpeace9970]

He was a cop no wonder. New York mayors have been crap for years.

[@SonOfKong33]

Maybe Ukraine can send us billions of dollars so we could protect our border from these invaders....Help us Ukraine!

[@MrKeiKuro]

It's more despicable veto Palestinian right

[@yvonnerobinson9919]

WOULD HE FEEL THE SAME IF IT WAS AN ISRAELI FLAG.

[@locksmith7621]

yet no one tried to replace the American flag with Israeli only with the terrorist flag

[@agnelomascarenhas8990]

Clown, the issue is about lowering the American flag and replacing with some other.

[@moragmckay3779]

@@locksmith7621 The Israeli flag IS the terrorist flag. The Zionists whose movement created Israel, and later every subsequent Israeli Government, have been carrying out terrorism and massacres from the 1930s, against Palestinians, the British, Americans, all their Arab neighbours, refugees in other countries....... Their whole reason for being is to colonise and expand, clearing the land of everyone who gets in their way.

[@juehju]

@@locksmith7621 Maybe because the US is supporting Israel, no need to wave the Jewish flag. Completely different context bud.

[@vertabray5064]

@@juehjudon’t care

[@antonbradley1935]

Too little too late

[@SydneyROSS-bx4bm]

Ppl should learn from past history n the bible ...the enemy's of Israel don't last ..n should leave Israel alone

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Yes it’s despicable that people are using their freedom of speech to send a message.

[@GarrettGuerra47]

destroying private property isn't freedom of speech

[@hunter--1]

​@@GarrettGuerra47but when Israel do it no one would care

[@XZINO911X]

However he's fine with waving the Israeli flag

[@jose-marie]

Land of the free, it says. They are free to display whichever flag they want.

[@bmdecker93]

Nope 🇺🇸

[@breakinggames1810]

Go back to their own country please instead of being cowards and running

[@jaimemartinez9792]

That is a University that probably gets tons of money from the government, so no.

[@breakinggames1810]

They can go back to their own country instead of fleeing like cowards

[@maryrose4712]

NO, do not replace our county's with another. Operative word is Replace.

[@RussianDrummer]

Mr Adams nice Armani suit

[@789loveislam]

Would this guy have said the same thing if that was a isreali flag.

[@harriskhan7671]

never.

[@adamhodgson8851]

Nope… because he is on the correct side of things.

[@TheBuckeyes101010]

New York mayor Let's go Stop being stupid NB Common

[@SirKeefyKeef]

But it is OK to wave the Flag of Ukraine in The House! Remember who We Work For Slaves!

[@azulaquaza4916]

Did they tear down American flag for it?

[@moreunoe]

I seen him with plenty of Israeli flags, he visited Israel to learn policing tactics from the IDF FFS

[@garythompson8867]

Your full of it

[@michaelroberts5801]

Stfu adams... And get nyc back on its feet again!!

[@PanjulAzza-md1bz]

Suck my what 😅?

[@PanjulAzza-md1bz]

Suck my what?

[@PanjulAzza-md1bz]

Suck my what 😅?

[@kamranhaidertunio]

It would have been perfectly fine, in fact encouraged, if they were hanging Israeli flag. Hypocrisy has no limits.

[@Watch-Crazy]

Prove it! Where's your evidence??

[@danhallett4952]

Or Ukrainian

[@danhallett4952]

@@Watch-Crazy I’ll assume this is a bot, no human even those with Down syndrome are this inept

[@shariqnaqvi86]

Funny how evidence shows former IDF soldiers attacking Columbia University pro palestine protest in January. No actions took place by him and his staff. Maybe a small snippet of a comment but not to the degree in which he talks about the flag. I did my duty serving the US and swearing to protect the United States constitution and one thing that is more disgusting then bringing the flag down is condeming free speech.

[@megsley]

the problem is they put it on the FLAG POLE.

[@joshuayanez7674]

Yet is normal tu put IDF uniforms and Israli flags in the Governement buildings

[@comesee1000]

ThisGlobe.com

[@pmet25]

First smart thing this guy has ever said, maybe there is hope for him yet, I'm willing to wait, has he seen the light finally?

[@mariamimi8497]

If America is America then tell America to mind their business and to not build all their weapons for terrorist attacks in Irak , iran, Lebanon , Syria , Palestine. Also ask yourself how America became Europe.

[@Salim_Habib]

But he is totally OK with billions getting sent to israel

[@zusk8556]

Name checks out

[@adamhodgson8851]

Yup. Because he’s on the right side.

[@MrMARVELouse]

The same country that helped commit genocide wants no reminder of the country they tore apart

[@dylanshaffer2184]

Palestine has never been a country

[@DDDrumpf]

More than 140 countries recognize Palestinian state as an independent country and endorse its full membership in UN!! Why the West against this despite saying they support 2-state solusion all the time???

[@user-gv9un1xb4b]

Go away sickening terrorist troll.

[@DinkyBaltimore4364]

NO such thing as "palestine", NO such thing as palestinian people, a bunch of arabas made this up to steal the land from God's People.

[@dark_unit2409]

Their against having our homeland flag being torn down & being replaced by a forgine one, a disrespectful symbolizing as if we were invaded

[@harriskhan7671]

because a two-state solution is only a hypocrisy and hypocrisy has no limits.

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

That's not reason to remove a country flag and put yours. America is too soft.

[@stephenfisher7114]

Israeli supporters (not students btw) bringing fireworks to the demonstrations .

[@shahzadakram4667]

Trying every dirty trick to break up the protests... The Genocide supporters are getting desperate.

[@beonfly1111]

🌟... "To be or not to be an accomplice of a criminal who is preparing the final solution against a people persecuted and starved before everyone' s eyes to legitimately defend his right to exist on his land and the infamous dispossession of the little portion of the land that remains, denounced throughout the world by billions of consciences with uncorrupted morals, that is the moral question facing every conscience in this world today". ... ? ? ?