Leo Terrell, chair of the U.S. Justice Department’s task force on Jew-hatred, called on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to take action following a protest outside the Young Israel of Midwood in Brooklyn on Monday night that led to four arrests.
Terrell criticized city leadership over what he described as insufficient enforcement following incidents targeting Jewish New Yorkers.
“Let me be clear, I am sick and tired of Jews being harassed in New York City,” Terrell said. “Did you see what happened in Brooklyn? Where is the mayor? Where is the district attorney? Where are the hate crime charges?”
“Jewish Americans are allowed the religious freedoms given by this country,” he said. “Jewish Americans are not being protected in New York City.”
“What happened last night in Brooklyn was outrageous, insulting,” Terrell said. “Mayor, district attorney, do your job. Protect Jewish Americans now.”
The New York Police Department said officers responded to a “scheduled demonstration” outside 1694 Ocean Avenue in the 70th Precinct, where four individuals were taken into custody.
“Jew-haters marched towards a Jewish house of worship, through a heavily Jewish neighborhood, past Jewish homes, Jewish families, Jewish businesses and Jewish communal spaces, chanting for ‘intifada,’ waving a Hezbollah flag and screaming abuse at Jews in the street,” Brooke Goldstein, founder of EndJewHatred, said.
“New York’s leaders, especially Zohran Mamdani, must stop pretending this is normal protest activity,” she said. “Mr. Mayor, you are on notice. The inevitable violence this will lead to falls squarely on your shoulders. You must act to stop this now.”
The protest was organized by PAL-AWDA, the group behind several anti-Israel protests in the city, including one outside Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on May 5. It is set to protest again in Brooklyn on Shabbos, on the corner of 72nd Street and 5th Ave in Bay Ridge, “to dismantle the genocidal Zionist entity.” JNS
If we were learning enough and had sufficient Kassin tovim these protests would not happen. The truth hurts but we are the cause.
Kassin tovim?
Can the jewish community sue the mayor and the gvt for not protecting us?
(I live in nj so I can’t)
Mr Terrel is 100% correct
He should be blessed
Agreed.
He wants to know where the district attorney is? Eric Gonzalez is a DEMOCRAT first, protector of the citizens that pay his salary, second! Eric has proven time and again to be a fake phony fraud, dyed in the wool radical left wing DEMOCRAT!
You ask the mayor where he was? He was at Gracie mansion enjoying dinner with his jew hating Palestinian lover wife.
The neighborhood was traumatized. People were on lockdown on a nice Monday evening when kids could have been enjoying play time after school. Instead they cowarded at home to those frightful chants. This doesn’t belong in a peaceful, respectful, tax paying neighborhood. But it seems that the mayor protects freedom of speech over freedom to live peacefully in your own neighborhood. The police were there and did their best. But this situation did not belong happening here, or really anywhere.
He doesn’t protect freedom of speech. He protects freedom of anti Semitism.
Freedom of Speech, over freedom of religion… ONLY when it fits his narrative (and Radical islamic beliefs). if the shoe was on the other foot, then he would be screaming “Islamaphobia”
The Mayor does not care one bit about free speech. He wants his fellow Muslim and leftist radicals to drive Jews out of NYC. Jews who naively or corruptly aided his rise to power will become his hate objects in due course.
Rabosai:
These events happen all the time, and I doubt he has a hand in arranging or instigating them. But they are inciting, harrassment, and are intended to terrorize innocent people just going about their day. Anti-Semitism is not illegal (nor is Islamophobia). So they will hate. Such “protests” can hang their laurels on constitutional rights. But they veer into criminal behavior. Here’s where the mayor cones into the picture. He will eventually denounce it. Will take several days. Meanwhile, no one will experience any negative consequences. That, my friends, is rewarding this hateful and despicable behavior. That action, or lack thereof, speaks louder than any words of condemnation. That’s why we must use every political maneuver to throw this terrorist out of public office. Yes, the DA, too.
Our mayor strenuously denies hating Jews, but he has a long, long track record that says otherwise. As a Jew-hater who pays lip-service to not being one, this is what we can expect – an occasional flaunting of “chazer feeselach” showing how much he likes us, while avoiding any meaningful action that would actually help our community.