(Jewish Group) "We need to make them scared": Pro-Intifada groups chant outside of a NYC synagogue. [View all]

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NEW YORK CITY — Anti-Zionist protesters chanted for an intifada and heckled Jews at a demonstration outside a prominent New York City synagogue on Wednesday night.

The demonstrators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan to protest against an event held by Nefesh B’nefesh, an organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.

Around 200 demonstrators chanted “Death to the IDF,” “We don’t want no Zionists here,” and, “Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out.” “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,” they chanted, to the beat of a drum.

A protest leader told the crowd, “It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-zionist-protesters-chant-death-to-the-idf-at-new-york-city-synagogue/


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The protesters are demonstrating against an event at the synagogue hosted by [b]Nefesh B’nefesh, an organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.

“No settlers on stolen land,” say advertisements for the protest on social media, branding the event a “settler recruiting fair.”Nefesh B’nefesh does not direct immigrants to settlements; anti-Zionist activists often brand all Jewish Israelis as “settlers.”

The protest is led by the Pal-Awda activist group and is shared by other anti-Zionist organizations such as the city’s branch of Jewish Voice for Peace, Writers Against the War on Gaza, student groups from around the city and individual activists with large followings.

The National Lawyers Guild, a nonprofit, sent an email to its members asking for volunteer legal observers to attend the event. The observers serve to provide legal defense for protesters against police. The guild is anti-Israel and put out a statement in support of the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel, the day after it happened.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/anti-zionist-groups-announce-protest-outside-manhattan-synagogue/