{"id":355259,"date":"2026-09-24T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355259\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:58:11","slug":"rally-against-antisemitism-held-across-the-street-from-united-nations-in-nyc-as-world-leaders-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355259\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally against antisemitism held across the street from United Nations in NYC as world leaders gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive rally against antisemitism was held Wednesday across the street from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/gridlock-alert-united-nations-general-assembly-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the United Nations<\/a> near East 47th Street and Second Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Some of New York&#8217;s largest Jewish organizations mobilized for the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here because I&#8217;m a proud Jewish American and I&#8217;m disturbed by the rise of antisemitism and antizionism,&#8221; Teaneck, New Jersey, resident Frieda Hershman-Huberman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish advocacy group The Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic attitudes have doubled since 2014, according to a Global 100 survey, going from about 25% to 46%.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the message behind the rally is, &#8220;Tell world leaders no more excuses. Rally against antisemitism. Words matter, actions matter even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ADL says acts of Jewish hate are on the rise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/2025-adl-audit-of-antisemitic-incidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not just here in New York<\/a>, but worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our synagogues have been shot at. Our schools have been shot at and attacked. Our students have been harassed. It&#8217;s a brand new Canada,&#8221; said Rabbi Reuben Poupko, with Beth Israel Ben Aaron Congregation of Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbis, reverends, actor Jerry O&#8217;Connell and people who say they&#8217;ve been attacked for being Jewish were expected to be among the speakers at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an unacceptable situation. You&#8217;ve come to New York, the most Jewish city in the world outside of Israel, you&#8217;re going to hear from us, and you&#8217;re going to hear that you have to do more about antisemitism,&#8221; said Scott Richman, with ADL New York\/New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lots of asks of these world leaders to do more. We&#8217;re asking them to adopt the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism. We&#8217;re asking them to adopt national action plans for their countries and to do more to bolster Jewish security,&#8221; said Hindy Poupko, executive vice president at UJA-Federation of New York.<\/p>\n<p>She said in the U.S. alone, Jewish institutions have spent about $1 billion on physical security measures.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with CBS News New York for the latest on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive rally against antisemitism was held Wednesday across the street from the United Nations near East 47th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,9,56,63,65,64,2271],"class_list":["post-355259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355259","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=355259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}