What Happened in the Streets of New York City Last Night Was a Disgrace

The big, progressive blue cities were fairly covering themselves in noxious glory yesterday, from the early release homicidal whack job with the decades-long violent rap sheet, shooting up a major city artery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

To Hamasholes in New York City, once again doing what they do best last night – gathering like a pack of rabid, slavering wolves around an innocent, helpless group of Jews (natürlich), gathered for an evening at a house of worship.

A synagogue.

That had to have a phalanx of nearly 500 of New York’s finest in an attempt to protect a simple evening of worship from the mob gathering in the streets of the quiet neighborhood.

It was a mob, terrorizing not just the house of worship and the people trying to reach it, but threatening and intimidating the entire neighborhood.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW IN BROOKLYN:

Insane footage of pro-Hamas rioters marching through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood toward a synagogue while assaulting Jewish kids.

This is what Mamdani wants to see.

He could stop this at any time. https://t.co/RcrTPeA8h6 pic.twitter.com/0wCXoKfsGA

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) May 12, 2026

There’s a word for this from times that should be long past in places that should never bear any resemblance to anywhere the United States of America.

Yet, here we are.

pogrom

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noun

po·grom pə-ˈgräm  -ˈgrəm,  pō-; ˈpō-grəm,  ˈpä- 

Synonyms of pogrom

: an organized massacre of helpless people

specifically : such a massacre of Jews

HERE WE ARE

Plus: The pogroms have begun in New York City, underscoring Judge Wecht’s point. Let’s hope that @DAGToddBlanche and @AAGDhillon are taking a close look at the situation. https://t.co/MJ5jhtS4TN

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 12, 2026

All thanks to these cretinous, hate-filled, unhinged malcontents who have not been dealt with as they should have been the first time they stepped out of line from civilized behavior and peaceful protests.

This is a hundred times worse than the march in Charlottesville. https://t.co/92mVZLuIPN

— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) May 12, 2026

Suffer the little children.

🇺🇸 Brooklyn, May 11, 2026: An anti-Israel mob surrounded a Flatbush synagogue, waved Hezbollah flags and Hamas-linked symbols, chanted “Intifada revolution,” clashed with NYPD, screamed “baby killers” at Jews, & harassed children.https://t.co/mdx0ZZdblu pic.twitter.com/4PyLfE7Rqf

— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) May 12, 2026

(I would have hurt that man. I say that most sincerely.)

The cops did their best, but the whole world knows that it’s a revolving door for Palestinian and terrorist sympathizers in NYC.

“Jews for Zohran”: Any regrets?

— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) May 12, 2026

People need to be able to protect themselves from the now-protected class.

I don’t need to buy any more guns. At least that’s what I told my wife. https://t.co/Ox1kD6fYb6

— Cyborg Pediatrician (@CyborgPeds) May 12, 2026

It’s hard not to wonder why they feel that way, even if they hadn’t.

Recent events in your own neighborhood can change your mind.

This was in a Jewish neighborhood last night in Brooklyn.

New York City is being harassed and invaded by a keffiyeh wearing mob.

Let’s be clear: these people aren’t just anti-Israel, they are anti-Western civilization. pic.twitter.com/8B9WjMxhul

— Jayne Zirkle (@JayneZirkle) May 12, 2026

A barely restrained violence brought to your doorstep by the authorities whose job it is to keep every citizen safe, whatever their race, religion, or creed.

And experienced passively endorsed violence by the city and its leaders.

Along with a system that gives approval by their response.

— Recliner (@Recliningdad) May 12, 2026

To allow you the freedom to worship safely as you so choose.

Not to have to wade through the hordes of haters outside your house of worship and speak your prayers over their loud-speakered hate chants while inside your synagogue.

🚨This is happening in New York City right now outside a synagogue.

Sharia supremacist mobs in Brooklyn are reciting Muslim prayers and chanting ‘Allahu Akbar,’ with an ‘Israel is killing children’ banner behind them. pic.twitter.com/rJuDwcKGZP

— Jayne Zirkle (@JayneZirkle) May 12, 2026

It was the second time in less than a week that this un-American abomination had been allowed to happen.

For the second time in six days, pro-terror demonstrators besieged a New York City synagogue on Monday night, this time in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, in an attempt to shut down an Israeli real estate expo.

Protesters affiliated with the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation (Al-Awda) in New York and New Jersey (Pal-Awda NY/NJ) surrounded Young Israel of Midwood, where the “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” was being held.

Hezbollah flags and a banner bearing the red inverted triangle Hamas uses to designate targets were seen in the crowd, and demonstrators repeatedly chanted “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Zionism will fall” and “There is only one solution: Intifada, Revolution.”

One sign read “Abolish Israel” and “No peace on stolen land.”

There is nothing on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s X feed condemning the protestors.

There’s another planned for this evening. Everyone is aware of it.

Where’s the mayor?

They aren’t going to stop.

Remember what they did to ICE in Minneapolis?

These are the exact same people and networks, only instead of ICE they’re going after our synagogues. For now.

Same tactics. Same chaos. Same goal.

Understand the larger strategy that the left has put… https://t.co/arWTFSL4iX

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) May 12, 2026

…These are the exact same people and networks, only instead of ICE they’re going after our synagogues. For now.

 Same tactics. Same chaos. Same goal.

Understand the larger strategy that the left has put in motion.

Every adversary of the left will get this exact treatment from now on. Whether it’s ICE, Trump, synagogues, banks, tech, whatever. It’s a low-level insurgency by hardcore militants and it’s only going to get worse unless something is done.

Or is that the plan? To simply let the thugs run wild.

…The vitriolic demonstration came just after a chaotic clash last week at the historic Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, where hundreds of anti-Israel protesters descended on an event there hosted by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist group that helps Jews immigrate from the US to Israel. 

Both protests were organized by the activist group Pal-Awda NY/NJ, which promoted the rallies with slogans such as, “No settlers on stolen land” and, “Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.”

Pal Adwa NY/NJ

…Links to Samidoun, a US-designated terrorist organization

• Al-Awda listed Charlotte Kates – International Coordinator at Samidoun – as  a member of its National Board (as of October 21, 2024).  Samidoun is designated as a terrorist organization by the US Treasury Department (see below).
• Al-Awda and Samidoun have partnered on events.  For instance, on May 21, 2020, Samidoun Europe Coordinator Mohammed Khatib spoke at an Al-Awda event “marking 72 years of Nakba and continued resistance.”
• In November 2024, the Netherlands denied Khatib entry, citing his terror ties.
• In July 2024, Belgian authorities initiated the process of stripping Khatib of his asylum status.
• In November 2023, Germany banned Samidoun, citing an agenda that “impairs and endangers the peaceful coexistence of Germans and foreigners,” and “advocates and calls for the use of violence.”

Support for violence, including the October 7th massacre

Al-Awda and its staff have celebrated violence against Israeli civilians and glorified US-designated terrorist organizations:

In May 2024, Al-Awda published a joint statement calling for the “complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea” and endorsing the “right to resist by any means necessary.”

On October 7, 2023, Al-Awda released a statement emphasizing its “unwavering support of the Palestinian resistance,” adding “The Palestinian resistance, through their brave actions, are forging a path to bring the ongoing Nakba to an end.”

Al-Awda leaders have also promoted Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Pogroms sanctified by the state.

Did you ever hear the one about the time the lovely Jew-hating Mrs. Mamdani found out that the beautiful woman she’d been sitting next to and talking with was Miss Israel?

What are the odds that Miss Israel 2025, Melanie Shiraz, randomly ends up sitting next to Rama Duwaji, the Israel-hating wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a Brooklyn café? She was ready for the selfie until Shiraz introduced herself as Israeli. Then her face changed.… pic.twitter.com/rhCFSpfPRA

— Eretz Israel (@EretzIsrael) May 6, 2026

Oh, it’s #SuperGreen

Miss Israel says she randomly bumped into NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife in cafe – and it all went horribly wrong https://t.co/7VYygrJL0M pic.twitter.com/5Gz8xnjHhT

— New York Post (@nypost) May 5, 2026

They’re going to have to prove to me they’re not part of the plan – the ignore it plan.

As it’s gotten this far, I doubt they’d even care. 

It can’t go too much further before regular citizens start to care, though – believe me.

We voted for a whole different country on November 5th.

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