NYC protesters demand Israeli cease-fire, at least 200 detained after filling Grand Central station
NYC protesters demand Israeli cease-fire, at least 200 detained after filling Grand Central station
Hundreds of protesters have filled the main concourse of New York City’s famed Grand Central Terminal to demand a cease-fire as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Wearing black T-shirts saying “Jews say cease-fire now” and “Not in our name,” at least 200 of the demonstrators were detained by New York Police Department officers and led out of the train station, their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
The NYPD said the protesters were taken briefly into custody, issued summonses and released, and that a more exact number of detentions would be available Saturday morning.
“Hundreds of Jews and friends are taking over Grand Central Station in a historic sit-in calling for a ceasefire,” advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace said on social media.
Israel stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, knocking out internet and largely cutting off communication with the 2.3 million people inside the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli military’s announcement it was “expanding” ground operations in the territory signaled it was moving closer to an all-out invasion of Gaza, where it has vowed to crush the ruling Hamas militant group after its bloody incursion in southern Israel three weeks ago.
The U.N. General Assembly approved a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities.
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I support protesting, but I really don't understand how these people in other countries expect that their protest is going to sway the Israeli government or Hamas. The war would go on even if we didn't aid Israel.
The US is still, to some extent, a democracy. The US also has major influence over what israel does. Protests show that a non-trivial fraction of the population does not support our current stance. It may not change anything yet, but it's a necessary step.
Not true.
Israel is totally dependent on American and European support, but especially American support.
They are basically the last western apartheid style colony, after the West pulled the plug out of South-Africa and Rhodesia, those regimes imploded.
Which is why I don't think Israel is viable as a state in its current form.
European support is rapidly evaporating and concentrated among older voters. We will probably switch to boycotting them within 20 years.
American support will probably last longer, but is also concentrated among older generations.
after the West pulled the plug out of South-Africa and Rhodesia, those regimes imploded.
This. I don't think most people realize/remember just how supportive governments in countries like the US and UK were towards Apartheid South Africa before the people made it clear we don't want to support that stuff.
At the very least nobody should be aiding Israel in their genocide.
Luckily they are getting tons of support to prevent their own genocide
I support protesting, but
Yeah. I'd be fine with just stopping all aid to Israel.