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Protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally in Manhattan’s Times Square on Sunday. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Yahoo News Senior White House Correspondent Alexander Nazaryan reports: 

At a pro-Hamas rally in the heart of New York City, speaker after speaker praised the slaughter of civilians that had taken place in Israel on Saturday, after the terrorist group overwhelmed Israeli defenses in an audacious, unexpected raid.

It was a bracing spectacle that countered the grief pouring in from most civic leaders, from Brooklyn to Berlin. But it was also evidence of a split within the Democratic Party, with many younger activists, forged in the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements, viscerally identifying with the Palestinian cause.

The controversial rally in Times Square was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America, a far-left organization.

Ahead of the rally, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, condemned the planned event, calling it “abhorrent and morally repugnant.” Rep. Ritchie Torres, a rising New York progressive, stood up for Israel as well.

“Demonizing Israel — to the point of denying the humanity of Israeli victims and the inhumanity of their perpetrators — is moral confusion masquerading as moral clarity,” Torres said.

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