Haredi protesters with opposite stances on Israel clashed on Monday night when rival protesters, including young boys, shouted at each other outside a synagogue in Monsey, the Haredi news outlet Yeshiva World News reported.

Yehuda Alon, a farmer and veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, was scheduled to speak at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim, also known as Scheiner’s, about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to the Yeshiva World News. The news outlet said that the resulting anti-Zionist protest in turn prompted a large pro-Israel counter-protest.

Videos from the news outlet show the protesters yelling at each other, one person at one point can be heard telling an anti-Zionist protester to “go live with the Palestinians.” The Ramapo Police Department and New York State Police were both present, the Yeshiva World News said.

The Yeshiva World News described the anti-Zionist protesters as being part of the Neturei Karta, a small Monsey-based Haredi group religiously opposed to the existence of any Jewish state of Israel before the arrival of the messiah. 

The group’s public-facing activism puts it at odds with others in the Haredi community, including those that share its anti-Zionist views. In December, a leading Chabad rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson denigrated the group, claiming that its members are not “really Jewish” and calling them “very sick people.” Jacobson later wrote in an email to Shtetl, “I have no real knowledge on this.”

Monday’s clash was only the latest in a series of public disputes in Haredi enclaves since Oct. 7. In early May, Neturei Karta members faced off with pro-Israel Haredim at a town meeting near Lakewood, New Jersey, disagreeing over a billboard that said “Stand with humanity. Stand with Palestine.” 

Within Monsey, Jewish business owners recently blamed anti-Israel Haredim after the Israeli flag outside their business was repeatedly vandalized.

And the Town of Ramapo, where Monsey is located, is fighting back against a lawsuit by a man who identifies as a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, which is known for its anti or non-Zionist views. The man, Leibish Iliovits, argued that, by displaying the Israeli flag outside its town hall, Ramapo violated his religious liberties. According to a source close to the litigant, Iliovits is also connected to Neturei Karta. Iliovits declined Shtetl’s request for an interview.

In April, the Town of Ramapo responded in court, reaffirming its support for Israel and arguing, among other things, that the Satmar Hasidic sect “comprises a very small percentage of the population of Ramapo.” Considered the largest Hasidic sect in the world, the Satmar community has large bases in Orange County and Brooklyn, and smaller ones elsewhere in the region.