“This week, New York City’s Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.
On Tuesday night, over 500 people gathered and marched in silent protest outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was appearing at a $1,000-a-plate dinner hosted by the New York-based Friends of the IDF.
The protest was initially called by Jews Say No!, a local peace group founded last year amid Israel’s Gaza offensive, and was cosponsored by about 30 other organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace, American Jews for a Just Peace, Palestinian-American and other local groups.”
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