Overview
- Police said four people were arrested Monday outside Young Israel of Midwood, where a real estate expo advertised homes including in West Bank settlements.
- Videos from the scene showed a masked person yanking a girl’s hair, pepper spray deployed during a scuffle, and eggs thrown at protesters as NYPD officers kept rival groups apart.
- Officers ringed the synagogue with block-long barricades under a new house-of-worship protest law, and a Queens stop on Tuesday proceeded with a heavy police perimeter.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the violence and hateful rhetoric after reiterating his opposition to the sale of West Bank settlement properties and his support for safe access to worship.
- The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is reviewing at least one alleged assault, according to a public statement, as the organizer PAL-Awda presses protests that spotlight the expos’ West Bank listings cited by critics as illegal under international law.