New York’s latest showdown over West Bank real estate just escalated as protesters clashed with police outside a synagogue hosting an Israeli property expo, and the law might actually back the demonstrators this time. About 100 pro-Palestinian activists from Pal-Awda NY gathered outside Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on May 5, 2026, evening, marking the second protest in six months against the Great Israeli Real Estate Event.
According to Al Jazeera, the expo, held in cities across the U.S. and Canada, markets properties in Israeli settlements in Palestine, many of them in the occupied West Bank, where international law explicitly deems such construction illegal. Counter-protesters also showed up, and scuffles broke out as police tried to keep the groups separated.
