Anti-Israel protesters shout ‘settlers go back home’ at NYC Orthodox Jews

Anti-Israel protesters shout “settlers” and “Zionists” at residents of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn.

The protest, led by the Pal-Awda activist group, takes place in Boro Park, an area with a large Orthodox population.

The crowd is separated into three parts. The anti-Israel protesters and a group of pro-Israel counterprotesters gather inside police opposing barricades on the street, and a crowd of Jewish residents watch from the opposite sidewalk. The anti-Israel protesters mostly shout at the neighborhood residents, who are closer.

They chant “settlers settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” and “Zionists go to hell.”

“How many kids did you kill today?” they chant to the beat of a snare drum. Some flash their middle fingers at the Jewish pedestrians. Children on their way home from local yeshivas watch from their school bus windows.

The protesters say they are targeting an event in the area selling real estate in Israel.

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” a protest leader shouts through a megaphone.

Anti-Israel activists have held hundreds of protests on New York since the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, but protests in Jewish neighborhoods are rare.

Tuesday’s rally was widely condemned by New York political leaders.