Anti-Israel protesters Sunday clashed with cops outside a Brooklyn synagogue where Israel’s embattled security minister was set to speak — with the speech ending up canceled and at least one arrest.
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 wrestling 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 was at least one arrest.
Jennifer Hansen, 33, of Brooklyn, was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and three counts of disorderly conduct during the protest, police said.
Hansen has at least one prior arrest at anti-Israeli demonstrations in the Big Apple, when she was among 60 protesters locked up in Midtown Manhattan in October 2023, one week after a sneak raid on Israel by Hamas terrorists.
In that incident, Hansen was charged with resisting arrest, obstruction, assault and disorderly conduct, police said.
No other arrests were immediately reported at Sunday’s protest.
The protest was scheduled by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation of New York and New Jersey.
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