This is a story that doesn’t have an explosive ending. Just a protest that fizzled. 

The controversy began Wednesday, when, in response to a Yeger tweet calling Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) an anti-Semite, Zainab Iqbal, a staff reporter for Bklyner, replied, “this is the same council member who has repeatedly said that palestine does not exist and refers to them as ‘so-called palestinians.’”

Yeger responded, “Palestine does not exist. There, I said it again. Also, Congresswoman Omar is an antisemite. Said that too.”

Yeger represents an extremely Orthodox Jewish area in Brooklyn. So deciding to hold a protest there was not the best idea.

On the protest event’s social-media page, 35 people said they would attend the event and more than 230 said they were “interested,” but only about 15 protestors showed up, joined by three Neturei Karta members. There were about a dozen vocal counterprotesters. 

As the many media members present picked their way through the crowd to try to find one of the few protesters to interview, one counterprotestor, Ayton Eller, holding an Israeli flag, yelled, “Fake news!” Asked by Hamodia what he considered real news, Eller replied, “The true news is there is no Palestine. It’s Israel.”

As usual, there are more reporters than protesters.

One protestor was heard telling another that “we’re six people here surrounded” by hundreds of others. Another told Hamodia that it may not have been a wise idea to have held this protest in middle of Boro Park, the home territory of thousands of Israel supporters.

“It’s a bit of a nightmare,” he said.

Occupied territory.