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A pro-Palestinian protest outside a New York City synagogue last week has sparked accusations of antisemitism and underscored the balancing act Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faces on Israel.
The debate stems from a November 19 event at Park East Synagogue, a modern orthodox congregation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The synagogue hosted an event for Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit that works to facilitate and support North American Jews moving to Israel.The group Palestinian Assembly for Liberation-AWDA NY/NJ organized a protest at the synagogue in opposition. “No settlers on stolen land,” the group wrote in a flyer. “Protest the settler recruiting fair.”Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags just steps outside of the synagogue. The group chanted slogans including “Death to the IDF,” or Israel Defense Forces, and “globalize the intifada,” an Arabic term for rebellion and a reference to Palestinian uprisings around the turn of the century.
Mamdani’s transition team is still grappling with the protest and its inflammatory slogans a week later. Several prominent Jewish leaders in New York have argued the event showed why they are worried about
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