As the news of a thwarted terrorist plot against a New York City synagogue quickly spread last Friday, dozens of anxious Jewish leaders joined a Zoom call with police officials.

It was hours before weekly Shabbat services were to begin, and the leaders were seeking reassurances that they could tell their communities it was safe to attend prayer. Safety protocols were given, along with assurances of care and attention.

As the religious leaders began relaying that message to their congregants, another message was being delivered by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. After responding to the terror plot, he released a video marking Nakba Day, a mournful Palestinian commemoration of their displacement during the creation of Israel in 1948.

The video — which shared the story of Inea Bushnaq, a Palestinian New Yorker who was forced to flee her home as a child — immediately drew fire because it omitted parts of that historical chapter that matter deeply to many Jews, including the role of the Holocaust in the creation of Israel and the participation of Arab states in the ensuing 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Many pro-Palestinian New Yorkers, including Muslims and some progressive Jews, celebrated the video, saying Palestinians’ perspective and experience had long been overshadowed.

But Mark Treyger, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council in New York, who was on the Zoom with police officials, said he was taken aback by the mayor’s video and its timing.