NEW YORK — Hundreds of protesters waving Israeli and American flags gathered Tuesday night just steps from Gracie Mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to rally against Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Speakers at the rally accused the mayor of failing to protect the city’s Jewish population and ignoring antisemitism. The protest featured a long list of speakers, including former “Big Time Rush” star James Maslow, artist Scott LoBaido, Lawfare Project founder Brooke Goldstein, along with several pro-Israel activists.

The rally was organized by #EndJewHatred, a grassroots group focused on combating antisemitism.

In between the speeches, the crowd broke into chants of “remove Mamdani” and “USA, USA,” and sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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“This is not the New York City I knew and loved,” Ari Ackerman, an entrepreneur and outspoken pro-Israel advocate, told Fox News Digital.

“There’s a different ideology that has taken over by the man who’s living in that house right over there,” he continued while pointing at Gracie Mansion, “and it’s not good. It’s changed everything.”

Mamdani’s friction with the city’s Jewish community came into focus during his campaign, as some questioned his stance on Israel, refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and ties to activists like Hasan Piker and Mahmoud Khalil.

Antisemitic incidents have surged in New York City since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. Recently, there have been anti-Israel protests outside Jewish institutions and synagogues.

Since taking office in January, tensions have remained high, with many Jewish New Yorkers saying that they do not feel safe in their own city. New York City is home to the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel.

Some speakers argued that the mayor’s rhetoric and actions reflected a deeper failure to confront antisemitism.

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Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told Fox News Digital that while antisemitism has persisted for thousands of years, he believes Mamdani embodies its modern form.

“Rabbis have been studying antisemitism for thousands of years. We know what it is, we know how to recognize it, and Zohran Mamdani represents it in the here and now,” Menken said.

“On day one of taking office, Mamdani, what did he do? He gets rid of the definition of antisemitism,” influencer and activist Lizzy Savetsky said, causing the crowd to boo the mayor. “If we can’t define it, how can we even fight it?”

While much of the rally focused on antisemitism, several speakers emphasized they were gathered to oppose a mayor who they see as a threat to Americans, not just Jews. The speakers represented several different backgrounds, including Christians and Muslims.

“This is not about antisemitism. This is about who we are as Americans,” Goldstein told Fox News Digital. “Do we believe in the rule of law? Do we believe in civil rights? Do we believe in equal protection?”

“We are demanding equal protection under the law. The truth is on our side, the law is on our side,” she added.

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Abraham Hamra, a Syrian Jew who was forced to escape his home country with his family as a child, said that Mamdani represented a larger threat to Americans.

“What’s coming here, me and my family escaped,” he said. “For every New Yorker, for every American watching this, this is not a threat to the Jewish community. This is a threat to you and your way of life as Americans.”

Hamra encouraged Americans to “stand up tall” against radical Islam and socialism.

Mamdani drew attention recently when he announced that he would not march in the Israel Day Parade, which is scheduled for May 31. Since 1964, every sitting mayor has attended the parade. This year, it comes amid a rise in antisemitic incidents and anti-Israel protests outside Jewish institutions.

“He’s not attending the Israel Parade, so we’re going to bring the parade to his door,” influencer Zach Sage Fox told Fox News Digital.

Anila Ali, president of the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council, joined the protest just days before she was set to make history. Ali is slated to lead the first Muslim group to march in New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade, which has taken place for over 60 years.

Ali noted at the beginning of her speech that the rally coincided with the start of Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest holidays in Islam, which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son as a demonstration of his faith in God.

“The Abrahamic prophets did not teach hate, and if Mayor Mamdani says he’s a Muslim, then this hate on Jewish New Yorkers is un-Islamic, un-American and immoral,” Ali declared.

She went on to accuse Mamdani of “using Islam to divide Muslims, Jews, Christians and all of us.” Ali also said that the mayor was using his faith to push his ideology.

While some focused on what they saw as Mamdani’s failures with public safety and his impact on the future of the city, others brought up current situations in which they saw the mayor falling short.

“He’ll condemn a swastika drawn on a building, but he won’t condemn Hezbollah flags and Hamas flags that are being paraded around the streets daily now in New York,” Fox told Fox News Digital.

Fox added that Mamdani represented a larger phenomenon in the U.S., in which many people “hate Jews, but they mask it under Zionism.”

The rally highlighted broader frustrations many of Mamdani’s critics have expressed, with speakers repeatedly voicing their concerns about public safety, antisemitism and the future of New York City.

Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.

I can’t remember the last time a celebration took over social media the way the San Francisco Giants’ outfield hip-thrusting sessions have.

And I definitely can’t remember a time that those celebrations were being busted out by a team that is well under .500.

According to former Giant and six-time All-Star Will Clark, it’s a bad look, and he made it very clear that he’s not a fan of the thrusting.

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“The dance where they’re doing the f–king pelvic thrust or something like that,” Clark said in a clip from his “Deuces Wild” podcast that has been making the rounds on social media. “I’m like ‘What the f–k is this?’ You’re 20 and 30, you don’t have the luxury of doing that kind of s–t out there. It looks like chicken s–t. Go back, high-five each other, ‘Nice job, we won one. Let’s keep the train running.’

“But the train has been off the tracks a little bit. I hate it.”

I mean… he has a point.

What’s so funny to me about this whole celebration is that if you showed someone who wasn’t following baseball, they’d see it and think that the San Francisco Giants are on top of the world and on cruise control until they win the NL pennant as a mere formality and dominate the World Series.

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That is not the case.

I guess you could make the claim that they’re trying to get the most mileage out of their celebrations since they haven’t been able to do them a lot this season.

Still, if I were playing on a team that was struggling at the bottom of the standings, I wouldn’t celebrate like that.

It’s just weird. Like when a football team is getting blown out, but they get a late touchdown and celebrate like it just put them ahead, when in reality it’s still like a three-possession game.

Maybe read the room.

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin publicly confirmed for the first time that her organization received an inquiry from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), seeking detailed information about about its March trip to Cuba.

The inquiry, which is often called an administrative subpoena, comes as the Trump administration signals a broad effort to increase federal scrutiny of nonprofit organizations operating in foreign-policy and activist spaces. Last October, after the murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to strengthen enforcement against nonprofit entities that facilitate support for political violence.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reinforced that message this week, arguing that nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors can’t shield themselves from legal accountability when resources, funding, organizational infrastructure or grants are used to support unlawful activity and political violence.

“We’ve made substantial progress, and I think in the weeks and months ahead, we’re going to have a lot to report,” Bessent responded to a question in the White House press gallery. He said, for example, that under new changes, the IRS will “demand that nonprofits know their grant recipients.”

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“So, if a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people’s rights, then you are responsible for that,” Bessent said. “I think that’s a very good first step.”

The shift reflects a growing administration focus on whether nonprofit networks are exercising sufficient oversight over the projects, activists and international campaigns they sponsor. Against that backdrop, the inquiry by the Office of Foreign Assets Control into the Cuba convoy fits within an effort by Treasury officials to examine whether activist organizations are complying with laws and other federal restrictions, such as sanctions laws.

Speaking on camera in a video promoted by a far-left media platform, BreakThrough News, Benjamin said she and political streamer Hasan Piker first learned about the query when Fox News Digital broke the news last Saturday evening that Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control had launched an investigation into the financial and logistical details of CodePink’s and Piker’s trip to Cuba trip.

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The Office of Foreign Assets Control enforces U.S. sanctions on Cuba, which restrict Americans from engaging in many financial transactions with the communist government and require travelers and organizations to comply with licensing and record-keeping requirements for authorized activities.

“I actually didn’t get anything, and neither did Hasan Piker,” Benjamin said. “I mean, we heard this on Fox News, that there was this subpoena out, and I was going outside my front door, looking around for somebody to serve me.”

Benjamin said the inquiry arrived by email and had been sent to CodePink co-founder Jody Evans. Fox News Digital has learned that CodePink D.C. Coordinator Olivia DiNucci, who regularly harasses politicians as they are having dinner in D.C. restaurants, is also expected to get a query.

“It turns out that it was an email that was sent to CodePink co-founder Jody Evans, and it was so unofficial that it landed in our spam box,” Benjamin said. “So it was a letter, and it came from the Treasury Department, from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, known as OFAC.”

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While criticizing the manner in which the inquiry was delivered, Benjamin acknowledged that the request itself was serious because of the volume of information federal officials are seeking.

“And I don’t want to say it’s not serious. It is serious, because they are asking for all kinds of information,” Benjamin said. “And this is a kind of intimidation tactic that means we have to get a lawyer, that we have to spend a lot of staff time, a lot of energy.”

According to Benjamin, the inquiry contains roughly a dozen detailed questions about the trip and its participants.

“They’re asking about 12 very detailed questions that include things like, ‘How did you get there? Where did you stay? What did you do every hour that you were there?'” Benjamin said. “I guess we have to tell them how many hours we slept.”

Benjamin said approximately 170 people participated in the convoy and suggested the scope of the inquiry could require organizers to account for the activities of every participant.

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“There were 170 people, so I don’t know if they want to know what every single person did every single minute of the day,” she said.

Benjamin also confirmed that organizers brought humanitarian supplies to Cuba.

“What we brought — and we brought about $600,000 worth of aid — so it’s a lot, a lot of information that they want,” Benjamin said.

Benjamin framed the inquiry as an effort to discourage Americans from traveling to Cuba or participating in humanitarian missions to the communist island, but said organizers would continue their activities despite the federal scrutiny.

“And of course, this is to make people think, ‘Uh oh, should I go to Cuba? Uh oh, should I keep doing humanitarian aid?'” Benjamin said. “And the answer to that is, yes. We can’t be intimidated. In fact, we have to use this as another reason that we’re so angry at the U.S. government and redouble our efforts.”

Meanwhile, Piker has insisted that he hasn’t received the Treasury Department query. He stirred up another set of headlines speculating that the “real goal” of the investigation is to target American Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who has pumped $285 million since 2017 into a network of groups including CodePink and BreakThrough News, allegedly spreading pro-China propaganda and sowing discord with massive anti-American street protests.

CodePink and BreakThrough News have been fixtures in those street protests, and Piker has supported them on his hours-long livestreams.