A video of a Puerto Rican flag being waved from a car going in circles and blocking an expressway in New York has been shared online to falsely claim that it shows a Palestinian flag. A video filmed from a different angle of the same incident, however, was posted on X on Oct. 11. It’s not the LIE, and it’s not a Palestinian flag.”A closer look at the video shared by McNicholas reveals similarities with the Puerto Rican flag, as can be seen in a side-by-side comparison of the zoomed-in version of a screenshot taken at 0:18 of the video and the Puerto Rican flag. The video was filmed near the Randall Avenue exit on the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York, not the Long Island Expressway. Video of what appears to be a Puerto Rican flag being waved from a car in New York has been shared to falsely claim that it shows a Palestinian flag.

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Persons: Khaled Meshaal, Tim McNicholas, It’s, it’s, McNicholas, Read Organizations: Israel, Reuters, Facebook, CBS, Palestinian, Puerto, Cross, Thomson Locations: Puerto Rican, New York, Palestinian, York, Randall, Israel