{"id":342213,"date":"2026-09-09T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342213\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:44:13","slug":"anti-dem-socialists-rally-in-manhattan-draws-about-300-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342213\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-dem socialists rally in Manhattan draws about 300 – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Sept. 9, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n

Some 300 people gathered in Seward Park on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side on Tuesday evening to protest the Democratic Socialists of America, chanting things like \u201cUSA, USA\u201d and \u201cHey ho, the DSA has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group EndJewHatred organized the \u201cUnite Against Terror\u201d gathering, which took place shortly before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attack on Friday, when Rosh Hashanah starts at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are definitely in DSA territory, but we\u2019re standing loud and proud,\u201d said Jayne Zirkle, director of communications and outreach for the Lawfare Project, which started EndJewHatred.<\/p>\n

The protest took place across the street from the New York City headquarters of the DSA, an organization with which a growing number of successful Democratic candidates for Congress are affiliated. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is also connected to the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only are we here to remember 9\/11. We\u2019re here to ensure that another 9\/11 never happens again, and we\u2019re not afraid to address that the reason 9\/11 happened was because of radical Islamic terrorism,\u201d Zirkle told JNS at the gathering.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here saying that, identifying the issue and calling out the political leaders who refuse to say that or embrace it,\u201d she told JNS. <\/p>\n

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\"Unite<\/p>\n

Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

The DSA is a political organization, not a political party, whose priorities include ending capitalism, defunding the U.S. Defense Department and recognizing the \u201crights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right to resist military occupation and the right to self-determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital,\u201d per its website.<\/p>\n

It also calls for an end to \u201call military and economic aid to Israel\u201d and to \u201cprosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speakers at the demonstration included Michelle Ahdoot, director of programming and strategy at EndJewHatred, and Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard Divinity School alumnus who joined six other students in suing the university in 2024 for not addressing Jew-hatred and anti-Israel harassment after Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

Kestenbaum, who now works at PragerU, reportedly reached a confidential settlement with Harvard in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DSA will tell you they\u2019re the party of minorities, but according to their own internal survey 85% of them are white,\u201d Kestenbaum told attendees from the podium. \u201cThey\u2019re a bunch of rich white kids with daddy issues masquerading as socialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Renee<\/p>\n

Renee Collymore, head of Brooklyn\u2019s Black-Jewish Coalition, at the Unite Against Terror rally in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.<\/p>\n

Renee Collymore, a Democratic state representative and the head of the Black-Jewish Coalition in Brooklyn, also spoke from the podium. A black Christian, he noted some three dozen members of the anti-Zionist, Neturei Karta Chassidic group, protesting behind a police barricade near the main rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to turn my attention to the Jews over here,\u201d Collymore said, gesturing toward the counter-demonstrators. \u201cEverybody knows that the Jews stick together. My question is what the hell are ya\u2019ll doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Collymore drew chuckles from the mostly-Jewish crowd. \u201cLike we say in the black community, \u2018Who raised you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Ezra Greenspan, 16, of Teaneck, N.J., and Ori Solow, 16, who lives in New Jersey and is originally from Israel, co-founded an Instagram account called \u201cStop Mamdani.\u201d Both spoke at the rally and encouraged participants to use their voices to speak out against Mamdani and the DSA.<\/p>\n

Solow told JNS that as a Jewish teenager, he feels compelled to decry what he said are radical and extremist policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our job, as Jewish people, as citizens of this country, to stand up and make sure that we are on the right side of this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Greenspan told JNS that Mamdani\u2019s rhetoric is \u201cendangering Jews\u201d and \u201cfanning the flames of antisemitism and hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neturei Karta, who are Satmar and Satmar-aligned anti-Zionist Chassidim mostly from areas north of Manhattan like Kiryas Joel, are a ubiquitous presence at rallies that are not at all pro-Israel.<\/p>\n

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\n Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Ezra Greenspan and Ori Solow, founders of the Instagram handle \u201cStop Mamdani,\u201d were featured speakers at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Frankie Lehman, a participant at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Michelle Ahdoot, director of programming and strategy at EndJewHatred, at a rally against the Democratic Socialists of America in Manhattan, Sept. 8, 2026. Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.\n <\/p>\n

5 of 8<\/p>\n

\n Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Shabbos Kestenbaum at the Unite Against Terror rally in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Shabbos Kestenbaum at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.\n <\/p>\n

Rally against the Democratic Socialists of America in Manhattan, Sept. 9, 2026<\/p>\n

Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

Ezra Greenspan and Ori Solow, founders of the Instagram handle \u201cStop Mamdani,\u201d were featured speakers at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

Frankie Lehman, a participant at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

Michelle Ahdoot, director of programming and strategy at EndJewHatred, at a rally against the Democratic Socialists of America in Manhattan, Sept. 8, 2026. Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.<\/p>\n

Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

Shabbos Kestenbaum at the Unite Against Terror rally in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.<\/p>\n

Shabbos Kestenbaum at the Unite Against Terror rally outside the Democratic Socialists of America headquarters in Manhattan, Sept. 8 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, they were joined by a handful of young, white, non-Chassidic adults wearing keffiyehs, who stood behind the Chassidim shouting \u201cfree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collymore told JNS, before she addressed the crowd, that \u201cwe don\u2019t support white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the DSA thinks that their own white supremacy is not oppressive, but it is,\u201d she said. \u201cThey suffer from white savior syndrome. I\u2019m here to stand against that, and to make sure they understand that they do not speak for black voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to shut down their headquarters and go back wherever they came from, because they are causing disruptions in our beautiful city of New York,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not let them scare you,\u201d she told rally-goers of the DSA. \u201cWe must put our support together. The Jews and the black folks have to work together. This is the only way we are going to stop the DSA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Sept. 9, 2026 \/ JNS) Some 300 people gathered in Seward Park on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}