NEW YORK — Anti-Zionist protesters scuffled with police, chanted for Israel’s destruction and expressed support for terrorist groups at a demonstration in New York City on Tuesday.

The protesters said they were targeting an event marketing real estate in Israel held at the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Synagogues rent out space to the real estate groups, which also market apartments in West Bank settlement blocs, drawing protests that tend to be especially vitriolic.

The hardline Pal-Awda activist group organized Tuesday’s protest and has led other demonstrations against synagogues in the region.

Around 100 demonstrators gathered on Lexington Avenue, and several hundred on 3rd Avenue, next to Hunter College, putting the crowds on both sides of the synagogue.

They chanted, “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it,” “End the settler Zionist state,” “Death to the IDF,” and, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.”

They also chanted, in Arabic, “From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab,” to the beat of a drum.

One of the protesters used her fist to beat on an image of the Chabad Hasidic movement’s late spiritual leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, which was affixed to a crossing signal. Several held up their hands to form an inverted triangle, a symbol associated with Hamas.

Protester beats on an image of the Chabad Rebbe pic.twitter.com/euQjkvc32j — Luke Tress (@luketress) May 6, 2026

Protester beats on an image of the Chabad Rebbe pic.twitter.com/euQjkvc32j

— Luke Tress (@luketress) May 6, 2026

A group of several dozen counter-demonstrators gathered across the street, holding signs that said,........

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