Anti-Israel protesters descend on NYC synagogue, Jewish school while shouting, ‘We support Hamas’
An anti-Israel mob descended on a Big Apple synagogue and Jewish school Thursday night — screaming “We support Hamas,” according to a sickening video.
The protesters were caught on camera chanting support for the terrorist organization as they waved Palestinian flags outside the Yeshiva of Central Queens synagogue in the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood.
“Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here,” the group could be heard shouting as cops barricaded them across the street from the synagogue.
On the opposite side of the street, furious counter-protesters waved Israeli flags as they chanted, “USA, USA, USA” in an attempt to drown them out.
Assemblyman Sam Berger (D-Queens) said the anti-Israel mob had to be “sequestered to a residential block, away from the synagogue and two schools they came to harass.”
“I am horrified for the young Jewish families I know who live on that block, huddled with their small children in the late hours of the night as agitators yelled their support for a terrorist organization with a bloody history of murdering Jews,” he said.
The disturbing scene was immediately condemned by Republicans and Democrats alike.
“Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for the genocide of Jews,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an X post.
“No matter your political beliefs, this type of rhetoric is disgusting, it’s dangerous, and it has no place in New York.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) ripped the demonstration as “insane.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani hadn’t addressed the chaos as of Friday morning.
It comes after a hateful crowd stormed the prominent Park East Synagogue in Manhattan in November as they chanted “Globalize the intifada” and called for the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”
During that incident, roughly 200 protesters descended on the synagogue and heckled Jews attending an event by Nefesh B’nefesh — a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.
