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On November 19 in New York City, Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that helps Jews planning to emigrate to Israel, was holding an event at the Park East Synagogue while outside, a mob of anti-Israel demonstrators screamed their hatred of the Jewish state, while also blocking the entrance to, and exit from, the synagogue. The mayor-elect, who during his campaign, and after he was elected, assured Jews that he would “root the scourge of antisemitism out of our city” and “there is no room for antisemitism in this city” and “I take the issue of antisemitism incredibly seriously,” apparently forgot those assurances when it came to the antisemitic demonstrators outside the Park East Synagogue. More on his failure to adequately respond to this outrage can be found here: “Mamdani Under Fire for Response to Mob Targeting New York City Synagogue,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, November 21, 2025:
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing intense criticism from Jewish leaders and pro-Israel advocates after issuing a statement that appeared to legitimize a gathering of demonstrators who called for violence against Jews outside a prominent synagogue on Wednesday night.
The protesters were harassing those attending an event being held by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel, at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan.
“We don’t want no Zionists here!” the group of roughly 200 anti-Israel activists chanted in intervals while waving the Palestinian flag. “Resistance, you make us proud, take another settler out.”
That is a call for killing all the Jews (“Take another settler out”) — some 520,000 of them — who live in Judea and Samaria, and are vilified as “settlers” living on land “stolen” from the “Palestinians.”
One protester, addressing the crowd, reportedly proclaimed, “It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events! We need to make them scared.”
Footage on social media also showed agitators chanting “death to the IDF,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces, as well as “globalize the intifada” and “intifada revolution.” Community figures described the scene as openly threatening and a stark escalation of anti-Jewish hostility in New York City.
“Globalize the intifada” is a call to kill not just Israelis, but Jews worldwide. The word “intifada” refers to the two terrorist campaigns — the First and Second Intifadas — during which 1,400 Israelis were murdered. It’s a phrase that Zohran Mamdani refuses to condemn, though he says he wouldn’t use the phrase himself.
Mamdani, who was elected the city’s next mayor earlier this month, issued a statement that “discouraged” the extreme rhetoric used by the protesters on Wednesday night but did not unequivocally condemn the harassment of Jews outside their own house of worship. Mamdani’s office notably also criticized the synagogue, with his team describing the event inside as a “violation of international law,” an allegation apparently referencing Israel’s settlement policies in the West Bank.
“The mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so,” Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said in a statement 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.”…
What “activities” were going on inside the synagogue that were “in violation of international law”? Helping Jews to make aliyah to Israel, the very essence of Zionism, constitutes in Mamdani’s view such a “violation” because the state of Israel, he knows, is illegitimate, having been built on land “stolen from the Palestinians.”
In the midst of an epidemic of antisemitism in the city, with Jews already feeling under siege, a mob tried to disrupt and shut down an event being held in a synagogue by a group that offered help to Jews planning to make aliyah. Instead of forthrightly denouncing that mob of 200 haters screaming their death threats (“globalize the Intifada,” “take another settler out,” “death to the IDF”), Mamdani condemned the use of the synagogue for a purpose — aiding Jews to move to Israel — that he claims is a “violation of international law” because the Jewish state’s very existence is in his view such a violation.
Mamdani assured us that there was “no room for antisemitism in New York.” He was, of course, and not for the last time, just kidding.
