It’s Time to Dismantle the Apparatus Terrorizing American Jews

The terrorizing of Jews attending a real estate discussion at New York City’s Park East Synagogue last week must be the last straw. Every few weeks, there’s another incident. Another synagogue surrounded by protesters chanting “we need to make them scared.” Another Jewish worshipper put in a chokehold. Another commercial event forced to cancel because organized mobs showed up to intimidate attendees. Another neighborhood placed under siege while elementary schools lock their doors early.

And every time, the response follows the same script: politicians condemn it, community leaders call it unacceptable, a few arrests are made for disorderly conduct, and then — nothing. The organization that planned it moves on to the next event.

No more. It’s time that we took action to ensure that the organization that was responsible for organizing the terror campaign is bankrupted and dismantled.  Here I don’t simply mean the local organization that claimed credit -PAL-Awada NY/NJ, but the national organization, as well as associated organizations and funders that enabled the terror campaign. We need to stop pretending these are isolated incidents. They are not. They are part of a coordinated national campaign. What they are doing is illegal and it is long past time to use the laws on the books to end their campaign of terror.

Let’s Look at the Facts

Since late 2024, a group called the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation Al-Awda — known as PAL-Awda NY/NJ — has organized a sustained campaign of escalating intimidation against Jewish Americans in New York and New Jersey.

This is not a loose collection of angry protesters. PAL-Awda is the New York and New Jersey chapter of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition — a formally structured national organization with a Coordinating Committee, an Executive Committee, mandatory financial reporting from chapters to national headquarters, and IRS registration as a tax-exempt nonprofit. It has bylaws. It has elected leadership. It has a strategic plan — and that plan is documented in its own words.

At a January 2025 public teach-in hosted at the People’s Forum in Manhattan, PAL-Awda described its “Stolen Land” campaign and laid out, on the record, its approach: a “dual pronged strategy to expose and stop these sales through legal challenges and confrontation in the streets, including future pre-emptive strategies.” Their campaign website states plainly that “we take various avenues to try and shut these events down.” The “sales” in question are Israeli real estate expositions — lawful commercial events, held on American soil, attended by American citizens.

That is their strategy in their........

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