New York leaders blast 'vile' antisemitic rhetoric during protest outside Manhattan synagogue
Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders have condemned Wednesday night’s protest outside a Manhattan synagogue as “totally unacceptable,” after hundreds of demonstrators rallied against a Jewish immigration organization’s event inside the Upper East Side house of worship.
Some 200 protesters gathered at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 outside the historic Park East Synagogue, where Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jewish immigration to Israel, held a scheduled program.
The demonstration outside East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue was organized by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation NY/NJ, which promoted the protest on social media as a stand against “settler recruiting.” They were met by a group of counterprotesters who shouted back at the pro-Palestine demonstrators. Both crowds numbered between 75 and 100 people, according to police sources.
Videos posted online showed NYPD officers keeping protesters and a small group of counter-demonstrators separated by metal barricades. In a video shared with amNewYork, one counter protester is seen clashing with masked demonstrators, calling them “p**sies” and “cowards,” and telling them to take their masks off before the NYPD intervenes.
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