Anti-Israel protesters gathered outside a Nefesh B'Nefesh event hosted at Park East Synagogue in New York City on Wednesday night.
The protesters chanted “Death to the IDF,” “Resistance is glorious,” “Intifada revolution,” and “Resistance, you make us proud; take another settler out,” footage posted to social media revealed.
PAL-Awda NY, a pro-Palestinian organization, organized the protest. It targeted the event hosted by Nefesh B'Nefesh, an Israeli organization that helps Anglo Jews with the immigration process to Israel.
In the PAL-Awda social media advertisement for the protest, they referred to Nefesh B'Nefesh as "an affiliate of the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel, mainly responsible for the recruitment of settlers to Palestine from North America."
Attendees of the synagogue's event were forced to enter and exit in front of the protest while demonstrators heckled them, holding signs saying ‘Zionism is a death cult’ and shouting “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.”
Park East Synagogue Rabbi Arthur Schneier survived the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary, and arrived in the United States in 1947.
The protest occurred following the election of Zohran Mamdani to be the city's mayor.
Rising antisemitism in NYC
Last week, at a recent interfaith event held on the campus of the City College of New York, a Muslim imam leader reportedly led a student walkout against the Hillel director after saying he refused to 'sit next to a Zionist'.
In October, an Israeli educator and lecturer in the IDF, Rami Glickstein, 59, suffered a vicious antisemitic attack while in New York, resulting in a brain bleed and a broken nose.