Bill Would Create Protest-Free Zones Around New York City Synagogues

New York’s first Jewish city council speaker and its first Muslim mayor may not be seeing eye to eye when it comes to ways to combat antisemitism in the Big Apple.

As part of a plan to combat Jewish hate, City Council Speaker Julie Menin has introduced legislation to create a 100-foot buffer zone for protests outside synagogues and other places of worship,  according to a report Thursday by the New York Post.

However, the Mayor’s office raised concern that the measure may not be legal.

The law would allow the New York Police Department (NYPD) to establish a 100-foot security barrier around religious institutions to be determined on a “case-by-case” basis.

“Jewish New Yorkers make up roughly 10 percent of our city’s