(Jewish Group) "We need to make them scared": Pro-Intifada groups chant outside of a NYC synagogue.
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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“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/
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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, distanced himself from a widely criticized demonstration outside a prominent synagogue in Manhattan on Wednesday night, where anti-Israel protesters were heard chanting “Death to the IDF” and “Globalize the intifada,” among other slogans, even as he suggested that the event, which provided information on immigrating to Israel, violated international law.
“The mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so,” a spokesperson for Mamdani, Dora Pekec, said in a statement to Jewish Insider on Thursday. “He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
The protest, organized by an anti-Zionist group, took place outside Park East Synagogue, a historic Modern Orthodox congregation, at which an event was being held by Nefesh B’nefesh, a nonprofit that assists in Jewish immigration to Israel from North America.
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Insightful comment I ran across:
Claiming that Jews use synagogues to plot evil is a classic demagogue’s trick, designed to turn Jewish communal institutions, and those who frequent them, into legitimate targets.
Not long ago, it was said that that synagogues concealed ‘politische Besprechungen’ (political discussions) or ‘контрреволюционные собрания’ (counter revolutionary activities), a pretext to strip them of tax-exempt status, and then to clear the way for repression and violence.
Calling synagogues Zionist strongholds that promote the violation of international law is entirely consistent with the rhetoric used by Mamdani’s ideological predecessors.
It will get worse, and when it does, they will double down on synagogues being complicit in “genocide” and “violating international law,” just like so many Mamdani supporters refuse to see the murder of two Jews at the Capital Jewish Museum as a murderous hate crime.
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