LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS IN BOROUGH PARK
BROOKLYN, NY – Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:
The vile and antisemitic rhetoric directed at Jewish residents in Borough Park is unacceptable and unconscionable. We will not tolerate the egregious behavior on display that was clearly designed to intimidate and harass Jews in the Borough Park neighborhood. People of goodwill across our City and throughout the nation must continue to do everything possible to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters who are under assault and fight the cancer of antisemitism with the fierce urgency of now.
https://jeffries.house.gov/2025/02/19/leader-jeffries-statement-on-antisemitic-protests-in-borough-park/
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Pro-Palestinian activists shout ‘settlers go back home’ and ‘we don’t want no Zionists here’ at Boro Park rally that is widely condemned as antisemitic by political leaders
NEW YORK — Anti-Israel protest groups staged a rally in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, berating the residents as “settlers” and “Zionists” and sparking fights with pro-Israel counterprotesters. The protest, led by the Pal-Awda activist group, took place in Boro Park, an area with a large Orthodox population.
Around 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered on a street in the neighborhood within a barricaded area set up by police. A crowd of Jewish residents and other pro-Israel counterprotesters demonstrated on the sidewalk across the street. Dozens of police officers separated the two sides. The protest began just after sundown and the temperature was below freezing.
The anti-Israel protesters chanted, “settlers settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” “Zionists go to hell,” and “We don’t want no Zionists here.” Most wore masks or keffiyehs to cover their faces.
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Others shouted insults, including at children. One man called neighborhood residents “filthy Zionist assholes,” and a woman shouted at a pair of young girls watching from a crosswalk, saying, “You’re so gross. You’re disgusting.” Children on their way home from neighborhood yeshivas peered out their bus windows at the scene.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-break-out-at-anti-israel-protest-in-brooklyn-jewish-neighborhood/
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https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-842754
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2025/02/18/protest-planned-for-boro-park-raises-tensions/
A Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY was targeted by anti-Semites who celebrate Hamas terrorists.
By the way, we consider all of Israel to be 'stolen land'.
That gives us the *right* to target an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY and attack random Jews.
And as long as Israel exists, we reserve the *right* to engage in vile acts of antisemitism against Jewish settlers in Brooklyn because 'we don't want no Zionists here.'"
noted that they were akshully protesting a real estate event when they hurled insults at Jewish children who were crossing the street in their own neighborhood.
Got it.
were in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn yesterday to hurl insults at random Jewish children and spread their message of hate.
where they hurled insults at Jewish children crossing the street in their own neighborhood.
It's difficult to fathom why anyone would think that masked anti-Semites shrieking insults at children and chanting "we don't want no Zionists here" were *really* protesting a real estate event.
It's reminiscent of the "peaceful site-seers" January 6 canard.
so no, I do not agree with THEIR protest.
It goes without saying that The Getter Group should not be selling or trying to acquire property appropriated by settlers in the West Bank. It's illegal. That's why Joe Biden imposed sanctions on West Bank settlers and why Israeli banks honored those sanctions.
Did any of the signs, flags, or chants at yesterday's hate-fest mention The Getter Group by name? If it was an anti-Getter Group Real Estate Expo protest, why were the chants about Zionists who live in Brooklyn? Why were Brooklyn Jews called "settlers"? Why was a random Jewish resident told "Zionists disgust me"? Why were Jewish children crossing the street targeted and subjected to vile abuse?
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I stand with Leader Jeffries.
People of goodwill across our City and throughout the nation must continue to do everything possible to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters who are under assault and fight the cancer of antisemitism with the fierce urgency of now.
Sorry but, "Yeah, they were really just protesting a real estate expo" strains credulity and helps to create a permission structure for this type of soft terrorism to continue and escalate.
calls the murdered Bibas children "captives", and frames today's release of their bodies as part of a "prisoner exchange".
a protest targeting an event selling real estate in Israel?
Leader Jeffries said it best:
living in Dearborn with intimidation and harassment in their own neighborhoods because the "ratio of evilness" between Hamas's absolute barbarity and "yelling insults" at Muslim Americans is "just too unbalanced".
They are saying Jews are not welcome in Brooklyn
they are louder and prouder than ever 
And Stupid... if they cared About anything but themselves, they would have used their energy to getting VP Harris Elected.. Instead of in the Streets Dragging on her and Pres Biden Before the Election.
They Always did the Wrong "protesting"... Protesting Jewish People and Businesses, Museums and a Cancer Hospital for instance.
This is the fucking hell that Elon and Trump have unleashed. Fuck both of them. 
