Veterans groups react after WWI memorial in NYC vandalized, American flag burned [Video]

Veterans groups were infuriated and saddened after anti-Israel agitators vandalized a World War I monument in New York City this week, prompting city officials to voice scathing criticism of the demonstrators while noting the irony of their right to protest.

Protesters were marching on the city’s Upper East Side on Monday evening near Hunter College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala was being held. 

When a group converged on Central Park, they came upon the 107th United States Infantry monument, which was defaced with pro-Palestinian stickers. Protesters also sprayed-painted “Free Gaza” and burned an American flag at the site. 

The bronze statue depicts seven soldiers from the U.S. Army 107th Infantry of the Seventh Regiment in the throes of battle as they burst through the Hindenburg Line — the last and strongest of the German army’s defense — in September 1918. 

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