A video posted to TikTok last week by Jewish actor and influencer Zachary Sage Fox featured a Muslim woman standing in Times Square in Manhattan holding up a sign that said, “I am a Muslim who loves Israel. Ask me anything.”

Some of the bystanders were downright hostile, with one man saying, “Don’t tell us this s—.” Others were skeptical, questioning whether she was really a Muslim.

“When I saw the sign, I was a bit, like, surprised,” one bystander said. “Are you Muslim?” When she answered in the affirmative, he asked, “Can you recite something [from the Quran]?”

“You think I’m not a Muslim?” she countered.

“Recite. Prove to me,” he demanded.

When she did so, he said, evidently satisfied, “Okay, now we’re talking.”

One person challenged her on the children’s death toll, saying that Palestinian “kids’ lives matter.”

“If their lives matter, do you think Hamas could have put them in the safe tunnels? Who did they hide in the tunnel? Hostages, the Israelis,” she pointed out.

“Nothing in Islam, or nothing ever in the world that can justify” the terrible atrocity of Oct. 7, she told another bystander who attempted to justify the Hamas-led attack.

“I had heard that as Muslims we must hate Israel because Israel is an oppressor. So I go to Israel. Israel is a beautiful country, and what people don’t know is that there are 2 million Muslims there. People in Israel have been wanting to make peace with their neighbors,” she explained to the crowd.

In the end, people thanked her for her courage in coming forward so publicly, with one person saying, “You really changed my perspective. You’re a brave woman. You got my respect.”