Gov. Kathy Hochul <\/a>has the power to order investigations into the group that organized this hate-fest. She\u2019d do much good if she did.<\/p>\nThe group, Al-Awda, has long been a mouthpiece for terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s distributed pamphlets from sanctioned entities, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Hamas.<\/p>\n
Its longtime executive director, Abbas Hamideh, is a devoted fan of terror group Hezbollah\u2019s ex-leader Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Hochul said about the protest: \u201cNo New Yorker should be intimidated or harassed at their house of worship. What happened\u201d at the synagogue \u201cwas shameful and a blatant attack on the Jewish community. Hate has no place in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is what she didn\u2019t say: The people responsible for it will be investigated, and hopefully prosecuted.<\/p>\n
That she didn\u2019t says it all.<\/p>\n
Another big reason Jews are right to worry was the sniveling statement issued by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n
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Yes, he pretends he takes concerns about antisemitism seriously and is willing at least talk the talk of being a mayor for all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n
Though he refused to explicitly denounce the phrase \u201cglobalize the intifada\u201d \u2014 which is widely interpreted as \u201ckill Jews worldwide\u201d and which the raging synagogue crowd was sure to chant \u2014 he did agree to discourage activists from uttering it.<\/p>\n
His spokesperson noted that fact after the scene at the synagogue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mayor-elect . . . believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nice that Mamdani claims to believe in the rationale for the law and, presumably, that what happened outside the synagogue was illegal intimidation.<\/p>\n
Yet would he push for prosecutions? Ha!<\/p>\n
Instead, he hastened to suggest the synagogue Jews had it coming.<\/p>\n
Per his spokeswoman, Mamdani believes \u201cthese sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n
What incredible chutzpah. In the same breath as he implies \u201cprotestors\u201d were breaking the law, he also tells Jews how to use their \u201csacred spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
For starters, Rabbi Mamdani apparently is unaware that Jews have gathered in synagogues to pray about returning to Zion for centuries.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mamdani, Esq. seems to believe it\u2019s a \u201cviolation of international law\u201d for Jews to move to Israel \u2014 not the West Bank, not Gaza, but Israel, the Jewish state established in 1948.<\/p>\n
The spokeswoman later clarified that only moving to the West Bank would be breaking the law, but Mamdani\u2019s record suggests he has a broader view.<\/p>\n
Either way, of course, no such law of any kind exists, but the comments reveal much about Mamdani\u2019s mindset: radical, inverted, bigoted.<\/p>\n
Think about it: Muslims and Christians should be able to move to Israel (or maybe the West Bank), if they wish.<\/p>\n
Jews? Not so much.<\/p>\n
If this is the leadership Jewish New Yorkers can expect, no one should be surprised when the next mass exodus comes.<\/p>\n
The mob, the governor, the mayor-elect \u2014 and any New Yorkers OK with such views \u2014 are doing more to push Jews toward aliyah than Nefesh B\u2019nefesh ever could.<\/p>\n
Tal Fortgang is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one should be surprised if Jews rush to leave New York. On Wednesday, the Park East Synagogue…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[49764,5229,12648,4527,4783,99,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,5343,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-396686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alvin-bragg","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-antisemitism","11":"tag-hamas","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-kathy-hochul","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-terrorism","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115592815535403439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}