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Rachel Secemski looked out the window of her home in Teaneck, New Jersey, one morning in early May and immediately recognized the man standing on the corner of the block.
According to Rachel, the man had spent years promoting anti-Israel demonstrations in northern New Jersey. Now, she said, he was photographing the Israeli flags and signs displayed on her lawn.
Rachel had kept the flags up since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. In the two and and a half years since, Teaneck — home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States — has faced a steady stream of organized anti-Israel activity, according to Rachel. She had watched it build through rallies outside synagogues, stolen lawn signs, online harassment, and threatening messages sent directly to her phone.
Then the activism she had been tracking appeared on her street.
Rachel identified the man as Adam Weissman, a longtime Teaneck resident.
The case reflects a broader pattern documented by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC). In May, the ARC recorded eight violent antisemitic incidents worldwide in a single week, more than 50% above the weekly average for 2026. Researchers also documented demonstrations outside synagogues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where protesters chanted “There is only one solution: Intifada, Revolution” and displayed Hezbollah and Hamas symbols.
A Jewish Community Under Pressure
“Once October 7th happened, it just skyrocketed,” Rachel said of Weissman’s activity. “He got a platform now.”
Rachel estimated that Teaneck has experienced at least 10 to 15 anti-Israel demonstrations since October 7. “They know when the events are,” she said. “They call them land sales. That’s when they come.”
The most alarming incident, she said, was a protest outside one of Teaneck’s largest synagogues during an event featuring a ZAKA speaker. The synagogue sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Demonstrators blocked the entire street. Rachel said members of Within Our Lifetime were among them.
Within Our Lifetime is the New York-based organization that helped popularize the “Globalize the Intifada” campaign in the United States. Rachel believes someone local helped connect the group to events in Teaneck.
“He’s the one that brought that Within Our Lifetime here,” she asserted, referring to Weissman. “He’s the one that brings all these protesters to Teaneck.”
Rachel said she encountered Weissman repeatedly at anti-Israel demonstrations throughout Teaneck, including outside a Cedar Lane restaurant where an IDF soldier was scheduled to speak. “He’s at every protest with them,” she said. “Constant.”
A Public Record
A review of Weissman’s public Facebook page reveals hundreds of posts promoting anti-Israel events in and around Teaneck.
In September 2024, he shared a flyer calling to “Stop the Zionist Pipeline from Teaneck to Palestine,” advertising a rally — co-organized by PAL-AWDA, Teaneck for Palestine, and American Muslims for Palestine — at the Teaneck Municipal Building against a local Israeli real estate event.
Two months later, he shared a second flyer promoting a “No Business on Stolen Land” action in Bergenfield, New Jersey, co-branded by the same coalition. Earlier that June, he shared a Within Our Lifetime flyer calling for a “Citywide Day of Rage for Gaza” in New York City.
In November 2025, he shared a flyer branding former IDF Chief of Staff Yoav Gallant a “Wanted Criminal, Indicted by the ICC for War Crimes” and advertising a demonstration in Livingston, New Jersey.
Weissman’s posts extended beyond event promotion into direct attacks on Jewish religious leaders. In one, Weissman wrote that “A Zionist rabbi should no more be seen as a genuine Jewish religious authority than a minister who conducted child sacrifices to Satan should be viewed as legitimate Christian clergy.”
A Council on American-Islamic Relations-New Jersey (CAIR-NJ) press release lists Weissman as a named media contact, alongside the organization’s communications manager.
“All these organizations, like CAIR and others, are using him,” Rachel said. “He’s the token Jew.”
From Demonstrations to Doorsteps
On October 29, 2023, just weeks after the 10/7 massacre, Weissman was photographed at a protest rally. His public social media activity continued steadily through 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, Rachel attended an event at a park near her house where an independent film was being shot. She went wearing an Israeli flag draped over her shoulders. The next day, a photograph of her appeared in a Teaneck community Facebook group. Around 2 a.m. the following morning, her signs and flags were stolen from her property. The theft was captured on video.
StopAntisemitism is disturbed by what appears to be three individuals in Teaneck, NJ, involved in the theft of hostage and pro-Israel signs belonging to the families of Israeli hostages.
This vile act of hostility toward Jews in your community demands swift action. We urge… pic.twitter.com/4kzIKpdl5V
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 26, 2024
“I know he probably told them where I live,” she said.
Then, last month, she spotted him on her block again. Rachel said Weissman was roughly a mile from the home where he lives with his father.
“I went outside. I was screaming and was really mad,” she said. “He said, ‘I’m just walking around, you’re crazy, you’re insane.’ I said, ‘Why are you taking pictures of my house?'”
When Online Targeting Becomes Personal
At a separate point, a social media account Rachel linked to someone in Weissman’s orbit shared a fifteen-year-old photograph of her, along with images of her LinkedIn profile. The post, she said, accused her of supporting the killing of children and urged followers to contact her workplace. “They found me online,” she said. “It’s very easy these days.”
After commenting on a post about a desecrated Israeli flag in neighboring Tenafly, Rachel began receiving text messages from an untraceable number.
“We know who you are. We’re coming to your house, Rachel. We’re going to protest in front of your house.”
She filed a police report, she said, but nothing came of it.
Refusing to Take the Flags Down
At a public playground near her home, stickers reading “Teaneck for Palestine,” “From the river to the sea,” and “By any means necessary” were found across the area, Rachel said. She alerted the town and had them removed.
A neighbor across from the side of her house has displayed signs reading “Genocide is not self-defense” and “…or an opportunity to steal land.” Rachel lives on a corner. She sees them every day.
In messages Rachel shared, a neighbor criticized her support for Israel, warned that her home could become a target, and falsely claimed that Holocaust survivors had taken land from Palestinians.
She is not afraid, and traces that directly to her upbringing by people whose parents survived the Holocaust. “I’m not afraid,” she said. “Survivors basically raised me.”
She wishes more people shared that resolve. “People are afraid,” Rachel noted. “Of course they are afraid. But we cannot keep doing this. We keep reaching the point where we say we can’t take it anymore.”
Rachel’s flags remain on her lawn. She has no intention of taking them down.
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