Pro-Palestinian Protesters Block Manhattan Synagogue, Hurl Threats, Anti-Jewish Slurs

A massive crowd of pro-Palestinian activists targeted a prominent Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Manhattan on Wednesday night, blocking Jews from entering and chanting “Death to the IDF” and “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada.”

“Another woman shouted, ‘F*cking Jewish pricks,’ while others called the Jewish demonstrators ‘rapists,’ ‘racists,’ and ‘pedophiles,’” The Times of Israel reported.

The 95-year-old rabbi who is the leader of the synagogue, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, is a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his synagogue being burned in Vienna on the night of the Nazis’ Kristallnacht in 1938. He and his mother (his father died when he was six) fled to Hungary, where he was only saved from being murdered by the Nazis by the intervention of the Swiss Consul General. “Many of his family members were murdered, including his grandfather, a prominent rabbi who died in Auschwitz,” the United Nations has noted.

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The synagogue was hosting an event organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh, which provides assistance to Jews who want to immigrate to Israel. One activist yelled to 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.”

On October 8, 2023, the very next day after the horrific and brutal Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people in Israel, pro-Palestinian activists celebrated the attack in New York City. They chanted, “Resistance is justified,” “Globalize the intifada,” “Smash the settler Zionist state,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

“Among the pro-Palestinian side, the mood was celebratory and spiteful,” The Times of Israel noted. “Demonstrators chanted ‘700,’ apparently referring to the confirmed number of Israeli fatalities in the attack so far, and held up the number seven on their hands while making throat-slitting gestures. Others flashed victory signs with their hands while shouting insults. One man held up a picture of an Israeli hostage on his phone and waved it at the Israeli crowd. Another was seen brandishing an image of a swastika. Some taunted the Israelis while tearing up and stomping on an Israeli flag, or danced with a Palestinian flag.”