Shock and anger: Jewish New Yorkers react to Zohran Mamdani team’s ‘hollow’ response to antisemitic protest at Manhattan synagogue

New Yorkers and local leaders expressed outrage over Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's “weak” and deeply troubling response, through his spokesperson, to an antisemitic protest outside the Park East Synagogue last week.

Scores of protestors converged upon the synagogue, where Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jewish immigration to Israel, held a scheduled event. Many protestors wearing face masks held Palestinian flags and chanted messages such as "Globalize the Intifiada" and “Death to the IDF,” per numerous online videos.

The incident prompted an NYPD response, with online videos showing officers actively separating the demonstrators from a smaller group of counter-protesters. But the strong protest, marked with death threats and antisemitic language, was met with a lackluster r