New York Post

Hate's his job: Agitator led FIT mayhem

The head of a Hamas-cheering radical activist group was among the 50 protesters arrested when cops thwarted unruly demonstrat­ions in Manhattan and cleared out an anti-Israel encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology overnight, The Post has learned.

Manolo De Los Santos, 35, was spotted being cuffed and hauled away by two NYPD officers in riot helmets as protesters marched through the streets toward the West 27th Street campus Tuesday evening.

A shouting De Los Santos, who had a Palestinia­n scarf draped around his neck, was slapped with a summons for disorderly conduct after being nabbed near West 14th Street.

Having been hit only with a summons — which doesn’t even rise to a misdemeano­r — De Los Santos is unlikely to face repercussi­ons for repeat incidents, despite being previously arrested on similar circumstan­ces at least once this year, in January.

Police started monitoring the FIT encampment roughly two hours before they eventually swooped in and arrested more than two dozen protesters.

Cops moved in roughly 10 minutes after warning those who failed to vacate the Chelsea campus that they would be charged with trespassin­g.

In total, police cuffed 50 protesters during the unrest, lawenforce­ment sources said.

De Los Santos is the leader of The People’s Forum, a Midtown-based nonprofit that urged protesters at Columbia University to channel the deadly Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 before last week violently storming Hamilton Hall.

His group blasted out video of his arrest on social media, urging followers to protest at NYPD headquarte­rs.

“Multiple leaders of the ALL OUT FOR RAFAH march in NYC were arrested by the NYPD while they led over a thousand pro-Palestine demonstrat­ors in the streets of Manhattan,” the group wrote on X.

De Los Santos, who spent “years” in the socialist haven of Cuba, has made a career as an local street protest agitator.

He has spouted anti-Israel rhetoric — including hailing Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack as “heroic” and calling for Israel to be “erased from history.”