Excerpts from Monday’s testimony to President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission by Moshe Glick — a dentist, father of three and grandfather of four — on his arrest and prosecution for defending a victim of antisemitic protesters at a New Jersey synagogue.

You can’t really call yourself a civil rights activist until you’ve felt the cold steel of handcuffs close around your wrists, stood defiantly for the mugshot and been fingerprinted like a common criminal.

My “crime”? Defending a 64-year-old man from a violent assault during an unauthorized protest that blocked and intimidated worshippers at Congregation Ohr Torah in West Orange, NJ, on Nov. 13, 2024.

Pro-Hamas agitators disrupted a peaceful Jewish-Christian gathering praying for peace in Israel, the safe return of the hostages from Gaza, reciting psalms and biblical verses and exploring purchasing a home in Israel.

One protester, Altaf Sharif, ignored police orders, charged past officers, seized an individual, who turned out to be 64-year-old David Silberberg, in a life-threatening chokehold, body-slammed him to the ground — all captured on video — then provided false verbal and written statements to the police.

Sharif faced no charges. The police didn’t even investigate.........

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