More than 100 protesters were taken away by New York police as they chanted in support of Palestine Tuesday night near Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home in Brooklyn, according to footage of the noisy protest.
Anti-Israel protesters, including many members of Jewish activist organizations, were arrested after refusing to block traffic on Grand Army Plaza during the demonstration dubbed “Seder in the Streets.”
Protesters stood or sat in the street with their arms linked, chanting “Ceasefire now” and “Let Gaza live,” footage of the group shows.
Authorities arrested the protesters without incident and put them on MTA buses that were used to transport them to the reservation, according to photos and videos taken at the scene.
The NYPD did not immediately have the number of protesters arrested Tuesday evening.
“Thousands of American Jews with (Jewish Voice for Peace), (IfNotNow) and (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) hold emergency Passover seder, closing streets to Senate Majority Leader Chuck’s home Schumer, to demand that he stop sending weapons. to the Israeli government as it commits genocide,” according to a tweet from the organizers.
Protesters also projected pro-Palestinian messages from the Brooklyn Public Library, including “Stop funding genocide” and “No one is free until everyone is free,” according to photos from the scene .
The US Senate easily passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as Taiwan’s defense, on Tuesday, with the measure now headed to President Biden’s desk.
“This is one of the most important actions Congress has taken in years to protect America’s security and the future of democracy,” Schumer, the New York senator, tweeted Tuesday.
About $17 billion will go to Israel, which has been at war with Hamas since the terrorist group’s sneaky and deadly attack on the Jewish state on October 7.
New York Post
