Brad Lander, the Jewish Democratic congressional candidate who has accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, went to a pro-Palestinian protest Sunday evening to show solidarity, only to be verbally abused and ejected by demonstrators who called him a 'Zionist scrotum,' according to The Zioneer.
Brad Lander, the Jewish Democratic congressional nominee who has accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, was verbally abused and ejected from a pro-Palestinian protest Sunday evening in New York, after demonstrators called him a "Zionist scrotum," according to a report received by The Zioneer. This marks the third brush with hostility for Lander on a single day.
In earlier Sunday reports published at 06:20 Jerusalem, The Zioneer detailed two prior incidents: first, Lander was confronted with antisemitic abuse at a protest against Hindu nationalist leader Mohan Bhagwat outside Madison Square Garden, where demonstrators shouted "F--k you Zionist" and demanded he leave. Later that afternoon, in a separate incident also covered in those reports, Lander was physically attacked by pro-Palestinian activists.
Lander, who defeated pro-Israel incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in the June Democratic primary and is an ally of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, has branded the Gaza war a "genocide" and aligned with far-left figures. The repeated rejection by the very movement he sought to join underscores the limits of ideological alignment when anti-Zionist sentiment remains deep-seated even toward Jewish anti-Israel activists.
It remains unclear whether these incidents will affect Lander's general election campaign, where he faces a Republican challenger in a historically competitive district.
3 developments
Source and signal
- Open-source intake