{"id":378287,"date":"2026-10-20T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378287\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:36:09","slug":"capital-one-branch-has-windows-smashed-pal-action-graffitied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378287\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital One branch has windows smashed, \u2018PAL ACTION\u2019 graffitied"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Capital One branch is graffitied with \u201cPAL ACTION.\u201d The bank\u2019s branch on the Upper East Side also had its windows smashed, along with more graffiti that read \u201cDROP ELBIT\u201d on Monday, according to the NYPD. \u201cPAL ACTION\u201d appeared to reference Palestine Action, a U.K.-based group that targets defense suppliers tied to Israel. Capital One previously\u00a0faced protests<\/a> for a $90 million loan to Elbit Systems, one of Israel\u2019s largest weapons manufacturers. Palestine Action claimed responsibility for the vandalism in a statement to\u00a0Gothamist<\/a>, saying, \u201cToday our Actionists showed Capital One the price of their complicity in genocide.\u201d City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, said<\/a> she urged police to investigate \u201cwhether this is a potential antisemitic hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul tours Hasidic New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday addressed thousands of Hasidic girls at schools in Kiryas Joel, an Orange County village mostly populated by Hasidic Jews in the Satmar sect. She was greeted<\/a> with chants of \u201cwith gratitude we salute to Governor Hochul\u201d and \u201cwe feel proud and confident with Governor Hochul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lander is in the West Bank. New York Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander said he is visiting<\/a> the West Bank this week as part of the \u201cProtect the Harvest\u201d coalition, which seeks to protect Palestinian farmers harvesting olives \u201cin the face of state-sanctioned settler colonialism.\u201d He is working with the groups Israelis for Peace and Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.<\/p>\n

Three Jewish NY Democrats launched a PAC to counter anti-Zionism. Albany lobbyist and consultant Libby Post, Albany Common Councilmember Deborah Zamer and Schenectady County Legislator Michelle Ostrelich founded Aleinu-NY PAC, Jewish Insider<\/a> reported. The state-level committee aims to support candidates with liberal views who also commit to fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Post told JI that it has gathered $5,000 in one week and will start interviewing candidates and making endorsements next year.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chuck Schumer pledged to fund Jewish security at a street naming for the JCRC-NY. The Senate minority leader spoke<\/a> to a crowd on Monday in Midtown, where the corner of East 47th Street and Second Avenue was officially co-named as Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Way. \u201cWhen I become \u2014 God-willing \u2014 majority leader, we will get even more money for the JCRC, and more money for our nonprofit security grant so desperately needed by the Jewish community and other communities facing this scourge of bigotry in America,\u201d said Schumer.<\/p>\n

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