Zohran Mamdani isn't mayor yet, that won't happen officially until January 1, 2026. But already it seems his people are feeling empowered. Last night a group of "anti-Zionists" surrounded a Manhattan synagogue chanting "There is only one solution. Intifada revolution."
A hateful mob of anti-Israel protesters descended on a prominent New York City synagogue Wednesday night, chanting “Globalize the intifada” and sinisterly urging the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”
Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and heckled Jews attending an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
“It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events,” one protest leader told the crowd.
“We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared,” the agitator repeated emphatically.
The group that was holding the event last night does not direct people to settle in what most people would think of as Jewish settlements, i.e. those in the West Bank. They are just helping people move to Israel. But of course, the protesters don't see that distinction at all. In their view, all Jews are settler-colonialists because all of the land belongs to the Palestinians. This is what they mean by "From the river to the sea..." They want Israel to cease to exist.
The protesters chant, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” “No peace on stolen land,” and , “We don’t want no two states, we want ‘48.”
“Palestine is Arab,” they chant in Arabic. One woman holds a sign that says “Zionism is a death cult.”
One woman shouts “You fucking Jewish pricks” at Jews walking past. Another shouts “you’re a Fucking rapist and racist the two worst things in the fucking world” at a man with an Israeli flag.
Again, they aren't holding this protest at an Israeli consulate, they are holding it outside a synagogue. This particular synagogue was built in 1890 and has been a Jewish place of worship ever since. The current senior rabbi of Park East Synagogue is Arthur Schneier, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1930. He is now 95 years old and has served as rabbi at this synagogue since 1962. As a boy, he lived through the Holocaust. All that to say, he's had some experience with people who wanted to make Jews feel scared.
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW OUTSIDE PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE
— Rabbi Poupko (@RabbiPoupko) November 20, 2025
Antisemites have showed up outside Park East synagogue and are chanting for intifada.
The Rabbi of the synagogue is a holocaust survivor who remembers vividly the horrors of Kristallnacht.
Now, he gets to see the same human… pic.twitter.com/fFDtt8nOhV
There were some Jews chanting back and refusing to be intimidated.
Outside Park East SYNAGOGUE. “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” & “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”
— Pamela Paresky🎗️(Habits of a Free Mind) (@PamelaParesky) November 20, 2025
Jews and other Zionists are chanting “am Yisrael chai.” The people of Israel live.
Ratio of pro-Israel to pro-Hamas = 1:1 to 2:1.
🙏 @NYPDnews pic.twitter.com/2Ike165zdG
Who else has been chanting these slogans? Oh right! The city's incoming mayor.
Same slogan as the one our mayor-elect stood beside a few months ago.
— Tali Goldsheft (@TaliGoldsheft) November 20, 2025
This is what “globalize the intifada” looks like, which Mamdani refuses to condemn. https://t.co/JGoXDWLKtk pic.twitter.com/JTScnV1ooI
Zohran approves of this phrase.
The Mamdani Effect ⤵️
— Alex Witkoff (@Alex_Witkoff) November 20, 2025
Mayor-elect Mamdani has refused to repudiate the slogan globalize the intifada
Scary time for NYC’s Jewish community https://t.co/ZlHatlrW1O
Here's what he said in June:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday again declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” but emphasized he would be a mayor “that protects Jewish New Yorkers” if elected in November.
“That’s not language that I use,” Mamdani told NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”...
But rather than reject the phrase, he told Welker “we have to root out that bigotry” and pointed to his campaign’s commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800 percent.
So how is he doing on rooting out that bigotry. Has he made any comment at all about last night?
Any comment from our mayor elect @ZohranKMamdani ? It’s awk because he too was part of this protest arm just a year and a half ago https://t.co/frq6vmvS6w
— Lizzy B (@Leezard3) November 20, 2025
I just checked his feed and he hasn't said a word. He did tweet about the Trans Day of Remembrance though, so he's still talking about bigotry, just selectively.
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 20, 2025
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
But nothing about the mob chanting "globalize the intifada" outside a 135 year old synagogue. That's not on his radar, I guess. I can't imagine why.
The current mayor did condemn the mob, so I guess Jews in NYC can rest easy for the next five or six weeks.
What happened at @PESynagogue last night was totally unacceptable no matter your faith or background. This type of protest and vile language should concern us all. When you desecrate one house of worship, you desecrate them all. I'll be visiting Park East Synagogue to stand with… https://t.co/AA7V6qdJcL
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) November 20, 2025
Honestly, I think Mamdani will have to say something about this eventually. In his heart he wishes he was still part of the mob chanting those slogans, but he's not supposed to be that guy anymore. Can he bring himself to finally condemn the language he refused to condemn a few months ago? No one would believe it anyway, so why bother? But he'll have to say something.
It'll be interesting to see how much worse this gets. And by interesting I mostly mean terrifying if you're Jewish. New Yorkers bought the ticket, now they get to take the ride.
The Mamdani Effect is just getting started, and Jews are in for a bad time. No other way to put it.
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) November 20, 2025
We bought the ticket, now we're gonna take the ride.
God help us all. https://t.co/I5o6aMdeiC
