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Protesters Lay Siege to a New York Synagogue
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Anti-Israel protesters say objecting to the existence of the Jewish state doesn't make them antisemitic, but that line is becoming impossible to believe. Note the protesters Tuesday who swarmed New York City's Park East synagogue calling for "intifada revolution." The 100 or so protesters, many with faces covered by keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, yelled, "Israel should not exist" outside the synagogue. In its annual report released Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded 32 physical antisemitic assaults in 2025 involving a deadly weapon - a new high. The ADL said 7 targeted victims had some "perceived support for Israel." But that means 25 were attacks on Jews because they are Jewish. In April 2025 a man firebombed the residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Passover while his family was at home. In May 2025, a man shot and killed Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.