Zevi Pilzer
“He threw me down, punched and kicked me in the face, then left and said, ‘That’s what you get for being a terrorist,’” said Matt Greenman, who was already on crutches....
The rally was organized by the anti-Israel groups Within Our Lifetime, Palestinian Youth Movement and Samidoun, among others. It was billed as a rally “to support Palestinian resistance and liberation by any means necessary.”
According to Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism.org, one of the rally’s organizers, Nerdeen Kiswani, was named “Antisemite of the Year” in 2020 by Rez’s organization. And last month, Kiswani’s organization Within Our Lifetime was banned from Instagram for hate speech. “We are not surprised that this rally was stained by violence, given that it was coordinated by Kiswani,” said Rez. “By skewing the facts about rioting erupting at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem following a series of terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews over the last few weeks, these groups are complicit in a misinformation smear campaign that has the potential to further exacerbate the increase in antisemitic acts in New York.”