The head of a Hamas-cheering radical activist group was among the dozens nabbed when cops cleared out an anti-Israelencampment at the Fashion Institute of Technologyin Manhattan, The Post has learned.
Manolo De Los Santos, 35, was spotted being hauled away by two NYPD officers in riot helmets near the West 27th Street campus on Tuesday.
?BREAKING! Multiple leaders of the ALL OUT FOR RAFAH march in NYC were arrested by the NYPD while they led over a thousand pro-Palestine demonstrators in the streets of Manhattan. We will not stand for the intimidation of the NYPD. The more they try to silence us the louder we pic.twitter.com/DlAqq5ZXH7— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) May 7, 2024
De Los Santos, who had a Palestinian scarf draped around his neck, was pictured screaming as he was escorted from the area.
It wasnt immediately clear if he was among those arrested.
In total, police cuffed 50 protesters during the FIT unrest, law enforcement sources said.
Cops moved in on the crowd roughly 10 minutes after warning those who failed to vacate the Chelsea campus that they would be charged with trespassing. Instagram/@manolo.socialista
De Los Santos is the leader of the Midtown-based nonprofit The Peoples Forum (TPF) that urged protesters at Columbia Universityto channel the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020before they violently stormed Hamilton Hall last week. Israel War Update
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The agitator, who spent years in the socialist haven of Cuba, has made a career of spurring protests on the streets of the Big Apple.
As TPFs executive director and de facto mouthpiece, De Los Santos has repeatedly spouted anti-Israel rhetoric of late includinghailing HamasOct. 7 terror attack as heroic and calling for Israel to be erased from history.
His encounter with cops during the FIT encampment bust is just his latest brush with the law.
De Los Santos was among the10 protest leaders cops bustedon Jan. 27 when hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators descended on Manhattan — partially blocking the Brooklyn Bridge and attempting to flood JFK Airport in Queens.
