NEW YORK — Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered Wednesday night outside the News Corp. Building two blocks from Rockefeller Center, where a separate crowd had gathered for the annual tree lighting ceremony. Several protesters were arrested at the demonstration. They chanted “free, free Palestine” as they waved Palestinian flags and held signs, some reading “call it what it is, genocide.” At least one person held up a sign of a swastika, with arrows pointing to the words “Israeli Military,” an image from the protest showed. Meanwhile, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an 80-...
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