Manhattan Jewish Mother and Daughter Threatened by Mob of Pro-Palestinians

By Matis Glenn

Pro-Palestinian protestors who called a mother and daughter “nazis” went into an enraged frenzy Monday upon learning that the two were Jewish, and had to be rescued by police, according to the New York Post, which interviewed the victims.

The same mob of protestors, numbering in the thousands, were seen shouting and blasting bullhorns in front of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital earlier the same day, accusing the cancer treatment facility of “genocide.”

The mother, 43, and daughter, 17, were dropping off groceries at their Upper East Side apartment when they were surrounded by the mob. The mother had left her daughter in her car while she dropped off the groceries.

“When I came back, she [her daughter] was in the middle of this chaos,” the mother told The Post.

The mother took out her phone to start recording the scene, and was told by several members of the group that she was a “Nazi,” to which her daughter responded, “We’re Jewish.”

“When they heard we were Jewish … they all came around my car and started screaming, ‘You murderous Jews,’” the mother said. They called for the death of all Jews, and began banging on her car.

When she tried driving away, the protesters put stickers on her car and wouldn’t allow her to move, as they chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Death to America,” among other things, the mother said.

“Those protesters are calling for violence, they’re calling for violence here in New York,” she said. “They are absolutely not calling for any kind of ceasefire.

“They’re getting more and more dangerous and more and more violent.”

The crowd of protesters attacked the car, with one man throwing an apple that the mother says nearly cracked the windshield.

Other cars were under assault from the mob too, which began honking at the protestors to leave.

Traffic cops eventually came and saved the mother and daughter from the mob. They then called the police, and officers arrived to escort the two distraught women to the 19th Precinct, where they reported the incident as a hate crime.

The mother described the harrowing ordeal as the “most horrible experience we’ve been through.”

Police told the Post that the “incident is being investigated as a possible bias incident by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.”

“There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing,” a spokesperson said.

Three demonstrators were arrested at Monday’s protest, police told the Post. Adham Elsharkawi, 27, of Brooklyn was arrested for drawing graffiti, along with an unnamed person who was arrested on similar charged, and a 16-year-old, who was charged with obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct.