Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside Park East Synagogue as cops shut down streets 38%
By Josephine Stratman69% Kerry Burke35% Colin Mixson63%
5/5/2026, 9:25:22 PM
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Pro-Palestinian protesters squared off with police outside an Upper East Side synagogue where organizers said an event promoting the “illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land” was being held Tuesday night.
The real estate expo was also condemned by the Mamdani administration — which simultaneously vowed it would not be disrupted.
The NYPD set up a perimeter that extended for blocks around the Park East Synagogue, where the land sale event was being hosted.
Security was tightest on E. 67th and E. 68th Sts., where entrances to the Jewish house of worship are located, and which were closed to all unauthorized traffic between Third and Lexington Aves.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters holding signs that read, “Stop the sales,” and “Settlers out of Palestine,” could be seen jostling against barricades placed on Lexington Ave. at E. 68th St., where police were spotted hurling demonstrators back to maintain the perimeter.
“They’re selling stolen Palestinian land, and they’re using a synagogue to do it.
That’s why we’re here,” said Antonio Maiullo, a 65-year-old musician who traveled from New Brunswick, N.J., to decry the land sales.
“We’re not attacking the synagogue or the Jews.
We’re attacking the theft in Palestine.”
The protesters then marched south before engaging in another skirmish with cops at E. 66th St. and Third Ave.
Meanwhile, dozens of counter-protesters waving Israeli and American flags shadowed their Pro-Palestinian rivals.
“These people are harassing Jews,” said Tim Rosen, 44, a lawyer from Queens.
“They’re targeting Jews at a synagogue, it’s disgusting and vile and something I never thought I’d see in New York City.
These people don’t want to free Palestine.
They want to target Israel and kill Jews.”
At one point during the protest, an attempt to move a metal barrier resulted in a police officer’s leg being injured, while another officer was doused with water tossed from a building along the demonstration route.
Police initially said some protesters were arrested, but an NYPD spokesman later confirmed there were no arrests related to the demonstration.
Those attending the real estate expo were admitted through a checkpoint on Third Ave., well away from the event’s main entrance in the middle of the block.
The activist group PAL-Awda organized the protest, which comes six months after a highly controversial demonstration at the same site.
Amid widespread criticism that the NYPD had allowed protesters to get too close to participants, the previous event sparked accusations of antisemitism and led to the City Council passing a bill to create “security perimeters” around houses of worship.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized to the congregation of Manhattan’s historic Park East Synagogue after the November protest.
The Council’s legislation, which requires police to create a public plan on how they will handle protests and authorizes them to place perimeters around houses of worship, became law in late April.
However, the plan required by the law isn’t due until the summer, and did not affect the NYPD’s procedure for Tuesday’s land sale event.
A Mamdani spokesman said the city will work to ensure that both participants and protesters are safe.
“Our administration has also been clear that we are committed to ensuring safe entry and exit from any house of worship, and that such access never be in question while all protesters are able to exercise their First Amendment rights,” Sam Raskin, a spokesperson for the mayor, said in a statement.
Raskin’s statement also criticized Tuesday night’s event itself.
The mayor’s support of the Palestinian cause is central to his political identity.
In November, he faced backlash for criticizing both the protesters and the event at the synagogue.
“Mayor Mamdani is deeply opposed to the real estate expo this evening that includes the promotion of the sale of land in settlements in the Occupied West Bank,” Raskin’s statement said.
“These settlements are illegal under international law and deeply tied to the ongoing displacement of Palestinians.”
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