New York leaders blast ‘vile’ antisemitic rhetoric during protest outside Manhattan synagogue

Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders have condemned Wednesday night’s protest outside a Manhattan synagogue as “totally unacceptable,” after hundreds of demonstrators rallied against a Jewish immigration organization’s event inside the Upper East Side house of worship.

Some 200 protesters gathered at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 outside the historic Park East Synagogue, where Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jewish immigration to Israel, held a scheduled program.

The demonstration outside East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue was organized by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation NY/NJ, which promoted the protest on social media as a stand against “settler recruiting.” They were met by a group of counterprotesters who shouted back at the pro-Palestine demonstrators. Both crowds nu