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Two Seen Flipping Off, Cursing Out Family in NYC While Tearing Down Israel Hostage Posters

A family who confronted women tearing down Israeli hostage posters in New York has reportedly filed a police report and wants the women charged.

The incident, which was caught on camera and shared Tuesday on X by StopAntisemitism, showed the two women ripping down the posters on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Marilyn Adler was out with her two adult daughters when they came across the vandals.

When one of the daughters asked them to stop ripping down the images, she was met with anger.

“F–k you, f–k Israel,” one of them screamed. The other one screamed something similar.

“I was terrified. I felt scared,” Marilyn Adler told the New York Post Thursday. “I was nervous that they would pull a knife or physically harm my daughters.”

Adler said she called 911 three times but police did not respond.

“They looked at me with eyes full of hatred,” Adler said. “They hate me simply because I’m a Jew. They don’t even know me.”

“This is simply antisemitism,” daughter Melissa added.

The posters are intended to raise awareness of those still being held by Hamas, the designers behind the bulletins say.

But the fliers have also drawn the ire amid Israel and Palestine's fraught relationship.

In the two weeks since the posters began popping up, many images have been torn down, including several on college campuses like NYU.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams reacted to the incidents this week.

“I am disappointed with what I am seeing on some college campuses,” Adams said at a news conference.

I think it is adding to the problem and not taking away from the problem. I think our college campuses should be doing a better job of really having our young people sit down and have a real conversation about the emotions that they're feeling, what are they seeing, what are they hearing, and have a real conversation around this.”