A group of roughly 200 protesters gathered late Wednesday evening outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, chanting slogans like “Globalize the Intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “Take another settler out.”
The crowd had assembled to oppose a gathering inside the synagogue hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, which assists Jewish immigration to Israel.
Jewish communal leaders quickly condemned the scene, calling it evidence of rising antisemitic intimidation in New York. One rabbi, himself a Holocaust survivor, described the chants as echoing historical violence.
The city’s police maintained a buffer between the protesters and the synagogue attendees, and no major injuries were reported.
