Duffy slams MTA over 'fact check' on anti-Israel mob's Grand Central takeover

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy got into an online speech with New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) aft an anti-Israel mob took implicit Grand Central Station. 

On Monday night, anti-Israel agitators with the radical Within Our Lifetime (WOL) protested successful the bid station’s main concourse. The protestation took spot hours aft Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House.

Anti-Israel activists protestation successful Grand Central Station connected April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Duffy condemned the protesters successful a station connected X, saying it was "disgusting" to spot "antisemitic mobs shutting down transit centers." He besides called for the organizers to beryllium held accountable.

The MTA disputed the assertion successful a remark connected the secretary’s station and said, "Grand Central Terminal was ne'er unopen down and work was not affected." The connection was attributed to MTA Chief of Security Michael Kemper. However, online video and 1 of the protestation organizers accidental otherwise.

Protesters marched to New York's historical Grand Central Terminal, wherever they occupied the presumption for a play of clip connected April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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WOL laminitis Nerdeen Kiswani said successful her ain X post, "NYPD unopen down aggregate entrances" astatine Grand Central during the protestation arsenic demonstrators "brought the bosom of NYC to a halt."

Kiswani besides elaborate the group’s past of demonstrating successful Grand Central, saying that successful the past they did not request permits oregon arrests and that determination were "no lockdowns."

In effect to the MTA’s "fact check," Duffy wrote, "Service was not affected? Tell that to the Jewish Americans who feared for their lives portion this went on. This is wherefore nary 1 trusts the MTA to support them harmless anymore."

Duffy besides called connected the MTA to condemn the "antisemitic mob," adding that not doing truthful was "enabling this harassment."

Anti-Israel activists show successful Grand Central Station connected April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Grand Central Station, New York City’s iconic bid station, has seen a big of anti-Israel protests since the opening of the Israel-Hamas warfare successful October 2023. 

On Oct. 27, 2023, conscionable 20 days aft Hamas’ massacre, anti-Israel protesters flooded Grand Central, forcing it to unopen down. The demonstrators were demanding a ceasefire and unfurled a banner that read, "mourn for the dead, and combat similar hellhole for the living."