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Anti-Zionist protesters march through NYC Jewish neighborhood, chanting for intifada

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12.05.2026

NEW YORK — Anti-Zionist demonstrators marched through a Jewish area of Brooklyn on Monday, chanting for an intifada and waving a Hezbollah flag, in the latest in a series of caustic protests in Jewish parts of New York City.

The protesters say they are targeting Israel real estate marketing events that also have information about real estate in settlements.

Monday’s protest, in Midwood, followed a similar demonstration last week, and two protests at synagogues late last year, one targeting a real estate event and another against an Israel immigration event.

The protesters on Monday waved a Hezbollah flag overhead and chanted, “Globalize the intifada,” “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israel will fall,” and “Death to the IDF.”

They also held an orange banner that read, “Israel is killing children” and shouted “baby killers” at Jewish counter-protesters, echoing an age-old blood libel.

Jewish counter-demonstrators responded with pro-IDF chants and shouted, “The people of Israel live,” in Hebrew. A handful sang, “May your village burn,” also in Hebrew.

Youths on scooters berated the extremist, anti-Zionist Naturei Karta sect in Yiddish, while others shouted at them, “You’re not even Jewish.” Naturei Karta members appear at the front lines of nearly every anti-Zionist protest in the city.

Crowds of neighborhood residents hounded the protesters as they........

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