Earlier this month I attended a Manhattan Institute dinner at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York. The Manhattan Institute honored retiring chairman Paul Singer with the institute’s Alexander Hamilton award at the dinner. A rabid left-wing crowd of protesters would have shut the event down if a hundred or so of New York’s finest had not barricaded a path to enter the venue.
Many Jews were in attendance. As I wrote at the time, I entered with three others — all Jewish — who were proclaimed “Nazi filth” by the left-wing rabble as we passed them and entered. That was a new one on me.
I thought of the “protesters” at that Manhattan Institute event when news broke of the murders committed by the anti-Semitic assassin Elias Rodriguez on Wednesday evening at the Jewish Museum in Washington. The Manhattan Institute has now issued a statement via X (screenshot below).
