Manhattan: STOP THE SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND.

Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Manahatta, Lenapehoking (Manhattan, New York City) – The protest “STOP THE SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND” in Manhattan, New York City, was organized by PAL-Awda NY/NJ, on May 5, 2026.

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Jews were selling and buying STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND at the Park East Synagogue at 163 East 67 Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

“On Tuesday, PAL-Awda NY/NJ and hundreds of our community members protested the illegal “Great Israeli Real Estate Event of 2026″ in Manhattan. The event openly promoted real estate on #StolenPalestinianLand, violating local, federal, and international law,” said PAL-Awda NY/NJ on a press release on May 6, 2026 (read the full press release bellow).

Originally, the protest was going to be outside the Park East Synagogue, but New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers closed several streets. The demonstration was at the corner of East 68 Street and Lexington Ave. Peaceful New Yorkers marched for several blocks. They ended the protest at the corner of 61 Street and 1st Ave.

Anti-zionist Jews of Neturei Karta International and other anti-zionist Jews were also at the rally and march. I interviewed Rabbi Dovid Feldman, a member of the organization Neturei Karta International.

On May 5, 2026, NYPD officers, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani did a great job ensuring zionist THIEVES could sell and buy STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND at the Park East Synagogue.

NYPD officers protected zionist thieves selling and buying STOLEN land in Palestine. At the same time, NYPD officers attacked New Yorkers protesting against the sale of STOLEN Palestinian land.

NYPD agents allowed zionists to harass and attack protesters. A zionist man attacked a woman in the rally. Miguel A. Rivera, a NYPD Community Affairs officer and other NYPD officers took the zionist to the corner and let him go.

NYPD Jamil Khan? badge #2429 (possible him: www.50-a.org/officer/TF3T) violently shoved me while I was on the sidewalk filming NYPD officers and a zionist who attacked a woman at the rally. NYPD Rivera badge #3816 (www.50-a.org/officer/9V5X) didn’t arrest the zionist attacker. Search for NYPD officers on www.50-a.org.

NYPD officers protect zionists harassing, attacking peaceful pro-Palestine, anti-genocide New Yorkers. NYPD officers protect zionists selling and buying STOLEN land in Palestine. NYPD officers harass, attack, arrest peaceful protesters and journalists.

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Our community remains undeterred: STOP THE SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND

Press release by PAL-Awda NY/NJ: “On Tuesday, PAL-Awda NY/NJ and hundreds of our community members protested the illegal “Great Israeli Real Estate Event of 2026” in Manhattan. The event openly promoted real estate on #StolenPalestinianLand, violating local, federal, and international law.

Depite a brutal police response emboldened by lawmakers who seek to protect these criminal events, New Yorkers have made it clear: our community remains undeterred in the face of intimidation, and we will continue to stand against the sale of stolen Palestinian land in our neighborhoods.

Tuesday’s event was hosted by Israeli real estate companies Home in Israel, Emanuel Group, and International Marketing and Promotion, in partnership with Israeli Leumi Bank. Event organizers advertised properties in Gush Etzion, Kfar Eldad, Karnei Shomron, among others– all illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The event also provided prospective settlers financial guidance to buy property in “Anglo neighborhoods,” expediting ethnic cleansing in all of Palestine, and furthering the dispossession on which the colonial Zionist project is built.

The participating real estate companies shamefully chose to hide their illegal event in the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side, the same synagogue that hosted an illegal settler recruitment fair in November 2025.

Tuesday’s protest reminded these land-thieving agents and their Zionist collaborators that we will continue to show up whenever and wherever these sales occur. We reject all attempts to distract from the reason for our principled protest.

Tuesday’s rally was the first against illegal Israeli real estate events since the introduction of state and city-level bills that attempt to establish unconstitutional anti-protest “buffer zones.”

Despite the NYPD forcing us to hold our demonstration 300 feet away from the land sale, NYPD officers violently kettled, barricaded, brutally grabbed, pushed, and pepper-sprayed pro-Palestine protesters while protecting Zionist counter agitators, including members of Betar, who tried to grab and push those present.

We condemn the complicity of elected officials and people in power, who have shielded criminal, genocide-supporting Zionist agencies, instead of protecting the rights and interests of their own constituents.

While @NYCMayor criticized Tuesday’s real estate event, his words rung hollow when the NYPD brutalized New Yorkers for standing up against stolen Palestinian land sales in our neighborhoods, and when there is no response to actionable calls for accountability.

In March of 2024, Palestinian lawyers @PALwarcrimes and advocates submitted an official demand letter to the @NewYorkStateAG, calling for an audit and investigations of these illegal events. To this day, our community is awaiting a response.

Tuesday’s event violated New York Property Law, New York Human Rights Law, state and federal real estate and housing laws, and international laws, amongst others. City and state officials have the power—and the responsibility—to respond to our calls for action.

We reaffirm our demands to the Mamdani administration to advance meaningful calls to the Attorney General to investigate, audit and stop stolen Palestinian land sales, remove the tax exempt status of those hosting these events; drop @NYPDPC as Police Commissioner; and disband the Strategic Response Group, in order to curb the NYPD’s discriminatory targeting of our community. We continue to look towards the steadfast people of Gaza and across Palestine as we protest and disrupt. So long as there is impunity in our neighborhoods for the theft of Palestinian land, we refuse to remain silent.

Palestine is not for sale. No settlers on stolen land.”

NEXT PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS

SHUT DOWN THE ILLEGAL SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND IN BROOKLYN on Monday, May 11, 2026. Click here for more information.

Protests to commemorate the NAKBA 78 will be in Washington Square Park, Manhattan, on Friday, May 15, 2026, and in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Saturday, May 16, 2026. Click here for more information.

“ALL OUT TO PROTEST the “Great Israel Real Estate Event”

All out to protest the illegal sale of #StolenPalestinianLand!

We will not be silent as ethnic cleansing is being actively promoted in our neighborhoods,” said PAL-Awda NY on May 4, 2026.

“All out to protest the “Great Israel Real Estate Event”

All out to protest the illegal settlement of Palestinian land! “israeli” real estate agencies, partnered with Leumi Bank (with office in NYC), are hosting an illegal event for prospective settlers to access services such as tax and mortgage advisors, info on transferring funds and other consultation to buy in “the best Anglo neighborhoods to find your dream home” built on #StolenPalestinianLand.

The event blatantly advertises settlements in the occupied West Bank, such as Gush Etzion, and is in direct violation of local, federal, and international laws.

We will not be silent as ethnic cleansing is being actively promoted in our neighborhoods,” said PAL-Awda NY on May 2, 2026.

PAL-Awda’s Stolen Land Campaign

“Since March 2024, PAL-Awda NY/NJ has been protesting and taking legal action against widespread illegal real estate sales of stolen Palestinian land. These sales reflect the genocidal settler colony’s desperation, in the face of intensifying international isolation and legal sanction.

Admission to these real estate sales is limited by ethnicity, and only to those who can pass Zionist screening questions, in violation of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1965, Fair Housing Act of 1968, state and international law.

While elected officials continue to fail their responsibility to shut down these illegal sales events, PAL-Awda has been mobilizing in the streets, in the five boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey and beyond, serving legal papers, and causing many to be canceled or moved.”_ PAL-Awda NY

“The Park East Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue originally called Congregation Zichron Ephraim at 163 East 67th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Built in 1890, the synagogue building was designated as a New York City Landmark in 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”_wikipedia.org

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Updated on May 7, 2026.