If you didn’t get what Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City is all about, you certainly found out this week.
Less than a monthafter Mamdani vetoeda measure which would have provided protection for targets of anti-Semitism in the nation’s biggest city, a group of “pro-Palestinian protesters” (translation: Jew-haters) were caught on camera trying to break down barricades to confront those in a synagogue during a real-estate event.
According to theNew York Daily News, the New York Police Department “set up a perimeter that extended for blocks around the Park East Synagogue, where the land sale event was being hosted. Security was tightest on E. 67th and E. 68th Sts., where entrances to the Jewish house of worship are located, and which were closed to all unauthorized traffic between Third and Lexington Aves.”
The protesters (again, read that loosely) said that the Tuesday event was promoting the “illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land.”
“They’re selling stolen Palestinian land, and they’re using a synagogue to do it. That’s why we’re here,” Antonio Maiullo, a New Jersey musician who traveled to the protest, told the Daily News.
“We’re not attacking the synagogue or the Jews. We’re attacking the theft in Palestine.”
Really? Take a look at this footage, and see if this is a group of peaceful, philo-Semitic people simply concerned about Palestinian land allegedly being sold:
BREAKING: Barricades clashes continue between anti Israel protesters and the NYPD during the march from Park East Synagogue “Land Sale” event.pic.twitter.com/xJZ4ZPWwjh
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY)May 6, 2026
“These people are harassing Jews,” said Tim Rosen, a counter-protester.
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