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\u201cRaise your hand if you\u2019re a Zionist,\u201d the mob chanted<\/a>. \u201cThis is your chance to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n No one on the crowded New York subway car dared to move. After a moment, a man from the mob shouted, \u201cOkay, no Zionists here. We\u2019re good.\u201d<\/p>\n The antisemitic incident happened on June 10 at the 14th Street-Union Square Station and, shortly after that, went viral on social media.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a few miles away, under the flags of Hamas and other terrorist organizations, protestors convened at a rally outside the long-running Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street, a commemoration of the lives lost at that Israeli festival at the hands of terrorists.<\/p>\n With banners proclaiming \u201cBy Any Means Necessary\u201d and \u201cLong Live October 7th,\u201d the demonstrators blocked the street as part of a \u201ccitywide day of rage.\u201d<\/p>\n The exhibit\u2014described by<\/a> Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine as \u201ca moving, heart-wrenching remembrance\u201d that \u201coffers a message of tolerance and hope\u201d\u2014was targeted by protest organizer Nerdeen Kiswani as \u201cnothing more than Zionist propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n In a video released by the NGO Stop Antisemitism, Kiswani is seen saying, \u201cZionists decided to rave next to a concentration camp; that\u2019s exactly what this music festival was, like having a rave right next to the gas chambers during the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n The NGO\u2019s response to Kiswani, the protests, the hate speech and attempted intimidation was, \u201cWe have no words for this evil.\u201d<\/p>\n Levine called the targeting of the Nova exhibition \u201crepulsive, vile.\u201d<\/p>\n Posters for the citywide day of rage call for<\/a> participants to \u201ctake autonomous action all day\u201d and then \u201cconverge\u201d at Union Square (the site of the subway incident). The five locations where \u201cautonomous action\u201d was encouraged were the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. The following day, New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned the protests. In a video posted online, Adams said, \u201cWhile peaceful protests will be allowed, New York City will never cower in the face of those trying to divide us. Hate has no place in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo credits: Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n