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Updated · Fox News · May 12
Brooklyn Real Estate Expo Sparks Clashes, With 1 Arrest Outside Synagogue
Updated
Updated · Fox News · May 12

Brooklyn Real Estate Expo Sparks Clashes, With 1 Arrest Outside Synagogue

6 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 12
  • Video from Monday night showed Israel supporters and anti-Israel protesters fighting outside the Young Israel Synagogue in Brooklyn during “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event,” with one man seen spraying pepper spray toward the crowd.
  • At least 1 protester was arrested after a scuffle that ended with NYPD officers throwing the person to the pavement, as demonstrators waved Palestinian and Hezbollah flags and chanted anti-Zionist slogans.
  • Organizers opposed the expo because it marketed property in Israel and the West Bank that protesters described as “stolen Palestinian land,” with groups including Al-Awda and the Palestinian Youth Movement tied to the demonstration.
  • The confrontation followed a similar protest last week and comes after New York City passed a March buffer-zone law limiting demonstrations near houses of worship, though NYPD enforcement plans are not due until early June.
With Hezbollah flags flying in Brooklyn, are local real estate protests a new front for designated terror groups?
Can NYC's new 'buffer zone' law shield synagogues from protests seen as hate speech by some and free speech by others?