{"id":47582,"date":"2025-11-21T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47582\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:10:08","slug":"exclusive-shaken-holocaust-survivor-rabbi-of-nyc-synagogue-worries-anti-israel-protest-would-have-been-even-worse-without-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47582\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Shaken Holocaust-survivor rabbi of NYC synagogue worries anti-Israel protest would have been even worse without cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The shaken Holocaust-survivor rabbi of the historic city synagogue targeted by a menacing anti-Israel protest <\/a>this week says he\u2019s worried what could have happened to the Jews there without the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Holocaust survivor. I saw my synagogue burn on Kristallnacht\u00a0with the police standing by and not intervening,\u201d Rabbi Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan told The Post, referencing the Nazis burning more than 1,000 synagogues and businesses during an antisemitic riot<\/a> in 1938.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God in the United States, the police are protecting us against the hate mongers,\u201d Schneier said.<\/p>\n

Schneier decried the Wednesday night hate-fueled protest in which about 200 demonstrators chanted, \u201cGlobalize the intifada!\u201d and \u201cDeath to the IDF!\u201d at attendees of an event by an organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.<\/p>\n

Cops need to physically rein in some protesters during the mayhem. Yoav Ginsburg\/ZUMA Press Wire<\/p>\n

Authorities needed to set up barricades to keep the anti-Israel agitators and counter-protesters away from each other.<\/p>\n

Schneier stressed the violent scene should serve as a \u201cwarning not to be silent.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo house of worship should be subjected to this type of demonstration,\u201d the religious leader said.<\/p>\n

Pal-Awda NY\/NJ, the anti-Israel activist group leading the protest, said it was demonstrating against an effort to \u201crecruit American settlers to illegally occupy stolen Palestinian land.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters demonstrate outside an event informing Jews how to settle in Israel. Yoav Ginsburg\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

The Jewish organization that held the event at the synagogue,\u00a0Nefesh B\u2019nefesh, promotes immigration from North America to the Jewish state but doesn\u2019t have official links to settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawmakers across the metro region condemned the protest, including Democratic US Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Arthur Schneier has strong words of warning after the menacing rally. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

\u201cI condemn the hateful and antisemitic slogans chanted in the protests outside Park East Synagogue last night,\u201d he said in a statement to The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019ve long said, we must condemn these actions whenever and wherever it occurs. Intimidation outside houses of worship and hate like this must have no places in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schneier said he was \u201cvery, very touched\u201d by the outpouring of support, including from Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, for the Jewish community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m touched by the solidarity of good people outraged by what has taken place. And also, by the way, I\u2019ve received calls from clergy from many denominations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause to attack a house of worship or try to disrupt services, whether it\u2019s a synagogue or church or mosque, is like trying to hit the jugular vein of a faith community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The synagogue has served Big Apple Jews since 1890. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shaken Holocaust-survivor rabbi of the historic city synagogue targeted by a menacing anti-Israel protest this week says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,7428,4648,9500,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-47582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-protesters","15":"tag-protests","16":"tag-synagogues","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47582","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=47582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}