Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2024. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Anti-Israel groups across the US have planned major protests in response to the assassinations of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, social media posts reveal.

This week, Israel killed Fuad Shukr, the No. 2 leader in the Hezbollah terrorist organization, in a targeted strike on a building in Lebanon. The assassination came as a response to a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Druze village of Majdal Shams, located in the Golan Heights, which hit a soccer field and killed 12 children.

Then, on Wednesday, the leader of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed when a bomb exploded in his hotel room while staying in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, for the inauguration of the country’s new president. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the attack.

In response to these high-profile assassinations of top terrorist leaders, anti-Israel groups in the West mobilized in support of the terrorists.

In New York City, the group Within Our Lifetime hailed the men as martyrs, chanting that the “martyr is loved by Allah” and that “Zionists are the enemy of Allah.” They also chanted, “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada.”

Among the rallygoers, there were a number of Hamas and Hezbollah flags, signaling explicit support for the US-designated terrorist organizations.

Protesters in Times Square Rally Following Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hizbullah Military Leader Fuad Shukr, Wave Hamas, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, Hizbullah Flags, Chant: The Martyr Is Beloved by Allah! Israel Is the Enemy of Allah! pic.twitter.com/ZnyOxCbstR

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 1, 2024

A number of other groups are also planning protests on Saurday.

An organization called Montreal 4 Palestine is hosting a protest in order to “Honor his [Ismail Haniyeh’s] last demand,” which they claim was to mobilize across Israel, the Palestinian territories, and around the world to “support our people in the Gaza Strip and to free our prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.”

“You can’t kill a movement,” they wrote on X/Twitter.

Directly after the assassinations, the Boston chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement announced an “emergency rally” for their “martyrs.” The announcement was coupled with the claim that Israel is attempting to “create a bloody regional war.”

The Algemeiner reported on Wednesday that the American writer and activist Shaun King lionized Haniyeh in a post about his death. King admired that “he was working hard, day and night, on the ceasefire even though these genocidal monsters had murdered his own kids and grandchildren. I never understood how he had such strength to push forward. But he knew and said that he was no different than the average Palestinian who has lost so much.”

Additionally, Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), wrote on X/Twitter that “tonight, we mourn Ismail himself but know his martyrdom is not in vain. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Haniyeh was placed on the US State Department’s Specially Designated Global Terrorists list in 2018.

“Haniyeh has close links with Hamas’ military wing and has been a proponent of armed struggle, including against civilians,” the department said at the time while announcing his terror designation. “He has reportedly been involved in terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. Hamas has been responsible for an estimated 17 American lives killed in terrorist attacks.”

Hamas and Hezbollah are both backed by Iran, which provides the Islamist terrorist groups with arms, funding, and training.

Many of the most prominent anti-Israel organizations in the West explicitly endorsed Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which Palestinian terrorists killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 hostages. These groups have regularly called for an “intifada” and other types of violence and terrorism at their rallies, along with flags of US-designated terrorist organizations.

Last week, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to give a speech to a joint session of Congress, pro-Hamas rioters vandalized statues — including with the phrase “Hamas is coming” — and assaulted police officers.