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[–] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

NYC loves its parades. There's the Puerto Rican day parade for one, that one is pretty big. I wouldn't look too much into that aspect of it.

Of course, fuck Israel nevertheless

Edit: there's so many that Futurama made a joke about it

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Not sure that compares since Puerto Rico is an American territory.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    NYC has huge populations of both intermingled with just about every other cultural or ethnic group you can imagine

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    There’s also St Patrick’s for Irish, and some Italian festivals, lgbtq parades, police parades (actually I think that overlaps with St Patrick’s).

    When you live in tiny apartments, almost any excuse to be outside is welcome.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    So does New Orleans and we don't have an Israeli parade to my knowledge

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sure, but does New Orleans have a large jewish population? NYC historically does, so it's no surprise there is influence. Israel can burn imo but I'm not shocked that somewhere with a high percentage of jewish people would have a parade in support of Israel, especially considering the work Israel does to push the connection between judaism and Israel.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Large enough that the lefties were split on Palestine and the local narrative was that wearing a Palestinian flag at a protest was tantamount to being anti semitic. But i doubt we have a huge population.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Apparently there are about 1.4 million Jewish people in NYC, or about 14% of the population, so yeah, it's sizeable. I'm not defending them at all, it just grates me that people just gloss over what I feel are important details.

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