Anti-Israel protesters Sunday clashed with cops outside a Brooklyn synagogue where Israel’s embattled security minister was set to speak — with the event ending up canceled and several people arrested.
The protest outside Congregation Shaare ZIon on Ocean Parkway turned violent shortly after 9:30 a.m. as NYPD officers and some members of the crowd scuffled while the rowdy mob demonstrated against Sunday’s scheduled speech by Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The speech was nixed, and the under-fire minister is now set to return home a day early, the Israeli outlet Haaretz reported.
The violent clash came two days after anti-Israel demonstrators and Hasidic Jews scuffled outside the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where Ben-Gvir made an appearance. Police said at least a half-dozen people were arrested at that protest.
Last week, protesters also hurled water bottles at Ben-Gvir after an event near Yale University’s campus.
Photos from Sunday’s scene in Brooklyn showed cops taking some protesters into custody, including one who was wresting with police on the ground — as counter-protesters confronted the demonstrators.
Video posted by Freedom News TV captured an angry exchange between the two sides.
A rep for the NYPD said police were called to the scene at 9:43 a.m. and confirmed that there were several arrests, but details were not immediately available.
The protest was scheduled by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation of New York and New Jersey.
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