A vigil for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, Hezbollah’s former executive council head, was scheduled to be held in New York City on Sunday, mirroring the terrorist group’s funeral ceremony in Beirut earlier in the day.
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition called on supporters to bring flags, flowers, and candles to Washington Square Park to pay tribute to Nasrallah and Safieddine, “who both ascended to martyrdom” when killed in separate Israeli airstrikes last year.
“Let us demonstrate to the world in the heart of the empire that the path of Resistance is immortal,” the group said Saturday on Instagram.
The revolutionary group shared calls from Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to participate in the funeral service in Beirut.
Betar US, a Revisionist Zionist movement, on Saturday said it would film the event and provide footage to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It urged US citizens to protest at the event and bring Israeli and American flags.
NYC | Sun. Feb 23, 5PM @ WSPJoin us to honor the Master of Resistance & martyrs Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah & Hashem Safieddine—both ascended to martyrdom last Sept amid zi*nist aggression against Lebanon. Let’s prove Resistance is immortal. Bring flags, flowers, candles. Mask up. pic.twitter.com/KRLsWU8N9a
— Bronx Anti-War Coalition (@BXAntiWar) February 21, 2025
“Nasrallah killed hundreds of Americans and Jews,” Betar US said on X/Twitter. “This is a terrorist event.”
Allegations of 'zionist' plot to attack
Within Our Lifetime leader Nerdeen Kiswnani said Zionist groups were planning to attack the event.
“Regardless of where you ideologically lie, they shouldn’t be emboldened enough to crash every pro-resistance pro-Palestine event and action in NYC,” he wrote on X.