This site noted, on Friday, how self-proclaimed ‘imam’ and ‘Islamic scholar’ Abdullah Mady led a walkout of about 100 attendees at an interfaith service at the City University of New York because there was a ‘Zionist’ there.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologizes to famed synagogue’s congregants for botched response to antisemitic protest
By Rich Calder | Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 4:53 PM EST
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued a heartfelt apology to the congregation of an historic Manhattan synagogue Saturday — conceding cops should have done a better job of keeping away hateful anti-Israel protesters.
Tisch told a crowd of 150 congregants attending service at Park East Synagogue that this week’s protests are legally allowed outside houses of worship — no matter how vile the topic — but said the NYPD failed to keep the front entrance clear and ensure “people could easily enter and leave shul.
“That is where we fell short, and for that, I apologize to this congregation,” the 44-year-old top cop said during a 10-minute speech which drew a standing ovation.
“Our plan didn’t include a frozen zone at the entrance. As a result, the space right outside your steps was chaotic.”
This story makes me appreciate the recently ended television series Blue Bloods and sadly fictitious Police Commissioner Frank Reagan.
Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Manhattan synagogue and heckled Jews attending an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate from North America to Israel.
Many chanted “Globalize the intifada” and sinisterly urged the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”
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Can someone tell me how such chant would not be seen as direct threats by the attendees? That was the direct intention of at least some of the protesters:
“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 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.
It’s not as though the NYPD did not have advance warning about the protest, as we reported last Wednesday.
Counter protestors were also on the scene, calling the masked demonstrators “cowards” and “pussies” for not showing their faces.
Cops set up metal barricades to keep protestor at bay, but some of the barricades were left too close to the synagogue entrance – putting event attendees coming and going in potential risk.
Pal-Awda NY/NJ, the anti-Israel activist group leading the protest, said it was demonstrating against an effort to “recruit American settlers to illegally occupy stolen Palestinian land.”
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I find it amusing that Pal-Awda is whining about “stolen Palestinian land” while living on what some of our friends on the far-left call stolen Indian indigenous land.” They don’t want American Jews to immigrate to Israel, but they also try to make life miserable for Jews who live in the United States.
Oddly enough, of the four women most visibly protesting the Jews, three looked like very white Americans.
American Jews, in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, are learning the hard way, as have their brothers in the Holy Land, that such virulent anti-Semitism has to be resisted from the very beginning. The history of Nazi Germany, and of Kristallnacht, has demonstrated for Jews the dangers of hoping that anti-Semitism just disappears, just goes away.
