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A hateful mob of anti-Israel protesters descended on a prominent New York City synagogue Wednesday night, chanting “globalize the intifada” and sinisterly urging the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”
Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and heckled Jews attending an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
“It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events,” one protest leader told the crowd.
“We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared,” the agitator repeated emphatically.
The large crowd also chanted “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada” to the beat of a drum.
“Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out,” the hate-filled group chanted at one point, video shows.
A smaller Jewish counter-protest assembled in the front of the synagogue and yelled back, “You’re cowards,” and blasted them for “protesting at a synagogue.”
Videos show NYPD officers at the scene separating the two groups behind a metal barricade, but no arrests were reported, according to the department.
The protest was led by the anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda, which advertised the event as “No settlers on stolen land” and “protest to stop the settler recruiting fair.”
Nefesh B’nefesh carried on with the event inside of the synagogue, welcoming attendees at a table near the front door, the Times of Israel reported.
The group, which promotes immigration to Israel from North America, does not direct immigrants to controversial settlements, according to the outlet.
The Park East Synagogue, which has been at its location since 1890, has been led for the last five decades by 95-year-old Senior Rabbi Arthur Schneier, who survived the Holocaust.
The Post has contacted the synagogue for comment on the protests.
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