NEW YORK—Some 300 people demonstrated outside the Israeli Consulate here Nov. 16 to protest Tel Aviv’s air assault on Gaza. The action was one of many over the last week around the world. Above, a similar protest in New York’s Times Square Nov. 18.

Participants, many of them young, expressed a range of views.

“I don’t support the rockets fired by Hamas,” rally participant Sarah Aly, 18, a student at Brooklyn College, told the Militant. “Killing civilians does not win support for your cause. I am not against Israelis. I am against the occupation.”

“I see the similarities in the struggle of the Palestinian people, the Tibetans and in Chechnya,” said Tensin Choeying, 23, who is from Tibet and a student at LaGuardia Community College. “What Hamas is doing can be expected. It’s normal to fight back in war.”

“Religion has nothing to do with it. All people need to fight for freedom,” said Ash Khan, 17.

—BRIAN WILLIAMS