Pro-Palestine demonstrators were seen burning an American flag and vandalising a First World War memorial in the centre of New York yesterday after police stopped a mob of thousands from reaching the city’s exclusive Met Gala. Protesters targeted Central Park’s 107th Infantry Memorial, with footage emerging of activists writing the word “Gaza” on the statue’s hulking stone base and putting American flags to the torch. More demonstrators plastered the statue’s near-10-foot-tall bronze soldiers with Palestinian flag stickers which read: “Stop the Genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine.” Som…