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DAVID MARCUS: Why the government must protect our neighborhoods from violent protests
Several arrests were made for acts of violence as Orthodox Jews watched radical progressives take over their streets
By David Marcus Fox News
Published May 13, 2026 10:16am EDT
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Violent anti-Israel mob protests outside Brooklyn synagogue
A violent anti-Israel mob hurled antisemitic slurs and waved Palestinian flags outside a Brooklyn synagogue. Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with NYPD, and an Israeli flag was burned during the demonstration.
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The scenes in Brooklyn this week of anti-Israel agitators flooding into a Jewish residential neighborhood to decry the Jewish state need to be a wake-up call to all of us, and we must plainly say, "Don’t make trouble where our families live."
The images of terrified Orthodox Jews on their porches watching as their treelined streets were taken over by radical progressives, several of whom were arrested for acts of violence, requires a firm response from the government which must protect our residential areas from mayhem.
While the constitution protects protest, even in residential areas, such as outside the home of a Supreme Court justice, there are measures the government can take to prevent violence and intimidation in such areas.
Here is how Ilya Shapiro, director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute put it:
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