Haters hunt NYCs Jews and Kathy Hochul couldnt care less

Last week a notorious group of pro-Palestine activists set its sights on Riverdale in The Bronx, as it publicized plans to march on a Saturday-night meeting for Jewish families considering buying a home in Israel.The group, Pal-Awda, didn’t post an address for its action, and it didn’t need to; its people have gotten very good at finding Jews.The incident brought home two chilling facts: Jewish families in NYC can’t sit in a neighbor’s house and talk about real estate without being hunted — and Gov.Kathy Hochul doesn’t seem to care.Pal-Awda is the same group that massed a crowd outside Park East Synagogue last November to chant “globalize the intifada” and urge the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”Ever since, it’s waged a campaign of targeted harassment against Jews who want to learn about making a move to Israel.It’s effective: Late Friday, Pal-Awda claimed “Victory!” in a post on X, bragging that the Riverdale session had been cancelled due to its scare tactics.“We will keep shutting down these events and making them untenable in the City,” the group vowedOrganizers of the real-estate event confirmed to me that the session was first set for a private home, and that the threats had indeed spurred them to cancel the in-person gathering and move it to Zoom instead.Earlier in the week, a group of Bronx Democrats including Rep.

Ritchie Torres, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and Borough President Vanessa Gibson had jointly denounced Pal-Awda for its plans.“Organizing a campaign to hunt down these gatherings and drive them out of our neighborhoods is an attack on Jewish New Yorkers,” they declared.They were right.Yet Hochul continued doing what she does best: ignoring threats to Jews and their communities.Last week she made a campaign swing through Riverdale for coffee with Dinowitz and Gibson — and on Saturday night, while Pal-Awda gloated, she tweeted about that friendly outing without a word about the targeting of B...