An anti-Israel mob estimated to number more than 100, chanting “Long live the intifada” and “Israel should not exist,” clashed with police near the Park East Synagogue, on East 67th Street on the Upper East Side, on Tuesday evening.
The crowd was protesting an Israel real-estate event inside that Mayor Zohran Mamdani earlier in the day had condemned.
Sam Raskin, Mamdani’s spokesman, said the mayor was “deeply opposed” to the event because it “includes the promotion of the sale of land in settlements in the Occupied West Bank,” the New York Times reported.
Mamdani has repeatedly said he is opposed to the entirety of Israel as a Jewish state, not only to any expansion into Judea and Samaria.