NYC bartender accused of refusing to serve Jewish patron, self-proclaimed vegetable-lover and an Ansonia resident among 27 busted at anti-Israel Met Gala demonstration

More than two dozen anti-Israel protesters were busted in the latest unrest to plague the Big Apple — including a Brooklyn bartender and serial demonstrator who once allegedly refused to serve a Jewish patron and a liberal arts grad who likes “thinking about vegetables.”

At least 27 people were collared late Monday as demonstrations near the star-studded Met Gala on the Upper East Side descended into chaos, with a mob vandalizing a historic World War I memorial in Central Park and burning an American flag.

Among those nabbed was serial protester Alvin Dan, 32, of Staten Island, who was arrested for disrupting last year’s iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade during an anti-Israel demonstration, according to police sources.

Dan was also accused of harassing a conservative Jewish journalist at the Bedford-Stuyvesant bar where he worked in April last year because of the patron’s Zionist views, a since-dismissed lawsuit alleged at the time.

The disruptive booze-slinger was slapped Monday with resisting-arrest and obstruction-of-justice charges and cut loose on a desk-appearance ticket over the Manhattan unrest, police sources said.

A DAT is an order to appear in court for an arraignment at a later date. 

Five others also were arrested, with four of them getting DATs, too.

They include self-described vegetable-lover Smith College grad Tara Sacerdote, 27, who lives in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, records show.

It was Sacerdote’s first apparent brush with the law.

The protester — who graduated from the elite Massachusetts school with a degree in art history and indigenous studies in 2018, according to online sites — was charged with raps including resisting arrest, and attempted disorderly conduct.

“In her free time Tara likes to read books, touch dirt, and cook food. She loves cheeseburgers, thinking about vegetables, and hanging out with her friends,’’ a profile of her reads. 

Her Instagram page includes “PS free palestine’’ at the top, a promo for Monday’s local “Day of Rage’’ and video of a protest with the posting, “springtime is sooooo beautiful in nyc?free palestine until it’s palestine free and BE MINDFUL PLEASE that neither israel’s nor americas aggression is limited to palestine or ‘the middle east’?️palestine is everywhere.’’

The sixth arrested protester, Leila Nouri, 21, was forced to go straight through the court system for allegedly injuring a cop.

Nouri — who lives in the tony Upper West Side Ansonia building, according to records — was hit with a slew of charges including felony assault, resisting arrest, attempted assault and harassment.

She was released without bail at her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday night and declined to comment as she left the courthouse.

In addition to Nouri, Dan and Sacerdote, the other three protesters arrested were: Jason Clarke, 24, of Queens and  Roland Daguna, 24, of Anaheim, Calif., both of whom were charged with criminal trespassing, and Lina Montes, 23, of Yonkers, who faces raps such as menacing, harassment, resisting arrest and attempted assault.

Only Dan has prior arrests out of the six, sources said.

The 21-year-old is accused among other things of bending a cop’s pinkie and ring fingers with her watch as she was being rounded up.

The other 21 people rounded up were slapped with summonses for disorderly conduct and released.

The chaos erupted as a mob of more than 1,000 protesters tried to descend on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Met Gala as part of a “Day of Rage” protest organized by the Palestinian activist group Within Our Lifetime.

The arrested protesters were cuffed in the vicinity of Madison Avenue and East 83rd Street after marching from CUNY’s Hunter College, sources said.

After being blocked by cops and diverted toward Central Park, anarchists desecrated the WWI 107th Infantry Memorial, torched the US flag and vandalized a Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman monument in Grand Army Plaza there.

A clean-up crew arrived at the WWI memorial first thing Tuesday morning to scrub off the “Gaza” and “Free Palestine” graffiti using power washers and a biodegradable chemical cleaning agent.

Stickers of the Palestinian flag that read “Stop the Genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine” were still scattered all over park benches along Fifth Avenue.

“Let me be clear – this is unacceptable behavior that will not be tolerated,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner Operations Kaz Daughtry tweeted of the “heinous crime.

“We will leave no stone unturned until the perpetrators are brought to justice. Vandalizing a memorial, a symbol of remembrance and honor, is not only an act of criminal mischief but also a disrespect to the sacrifices of those who served our country.

“Let this serve as a warning to anyone who dares to deface our city’s landmarks – there will be consequences,” he added.

The latest NYPD statistics show city hate crimes continue to climb, with increases last month compared to April 2023 and for the year to date —  fueled mostly by anti-Jewish acts, cops said.

“Not unrelated to current geopolitics, the total number of bias incidents investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force in April increased by 18 incidents (64 vs. 46), a 39 percent jump over the same month last year, and was fueled by anti-Jewish acts (32 vs. 16),’’ the Police Department said in a statement.

“Anti-Muslim incidents also doubled in April (6 vs. 3). Year to date though the end of April, anti-Jewish incidents rose 48 percent [111 vs. 75], while anti-Muslim incidents increased 175 percent (11 vs. 4),’’ the NYPD wrote.

Several enraged Upper East Side residents stopped by Central Park to see the damage for themselves Tuesday, telling The Post that the protesters had hurt their own cause by mindlessly desecrating a WW1 statue.

“These people are just nuts and violent,” said Michael Skol, who has lived in the vicinity for 25 years.

“Burning the flag is anti-American. It’s stupid,” he said. “It definitely doesn’t help Palestinians or the peace process. These are people who are not in the tradition of believing America is a good place. It’s disgusting.”

Ron Zucher, who also lives in the neighborhood, called on the destructive protesters to have some “decency.”

“It’s horrible to treat a World War I memorial the way they did. It breaks your heart,” he said.

“In this country, you have a right to voice your opinion, but not destroy memorials that pay tribute to heroes who died for our country.”

Additional reporting by Dorian Geiger, Tina Moore and Kate Sheehy