A group of pro-Palestinian protesters led by the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday to demanding an arms embargo on Israel.
During a sit down protest outside the New York Stock Exchange, protesters called for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
RT reports: A group of protesters wearing red shirts and holding banners reading Jews say stop arming Israel and Gaza bombed, Wall Street Booms gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
Other slogans included Fund FEMA not genocide, in reference to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been grappling with the aftermath of two recent hurricanes that struck the southeastern USA.
The demonstration, organized by Jewish Voices for Peace, drew an estimated 500 people. The New York Police Department said it took 206 people into custody after protesters breached a security fence.
Clips from social media show activists conducting a sit-down protest, with officers dragging some of them away, and with no signs of clashes or active resistance.
Writing on X, the group said: The USA is not arming Israel to protect Jews. The USA is arming Israel for its own profit and control of the region.
[President Joe] Biden wants us to believe that his $18 billion slush fund this year for the Israeli government is for Jewish safety.
As Jews, we reject this myth with every fiber of our beings. We refuse to let our traditions, histories, and identities be used to massacre Palestinians.
The protest came after the USA announced on Sunday the new deployment of missile defense assets to Israel, as well as troops.
The Pentagon said the reinforcements are meant to protect the Jewish state in the aftermath of Iran’s unprecedented (counter) attacks against Israel.
Since the start of the Hamas-Israel war last October, pro-Palestinian protests – which have often turned violent – have swept the USA, with demonstrators denouncing what they say are indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Gaza.
Israel launched an invasion with tanks and warplanes to destroy the Palestinian enclave in response to Hamas’ surprise operation in October last year.
In recent weeks, tensions also escalated between Israel and Hezbollah, after West Jerusalem assassinated numerous top officials of the freedom organization and started a ground operation in Lebanon.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point Middle East News 2024.
One world, a better place for everybody !
Not if that world is run by America—nearly 30 MILLION World Citizens killed by the USA –1948 to 2024 only one world aggressor, only Nazi Germany gets near that -27 million Slavs killed WW2.
So true …
Turkey is wanting an alliance of Iran, Russia, and all Arab states to put an end to Israel.
The Rothschild’s banking mafia gives Jews every unfair advantage. Our American Jews own 70% of all American wealth and control over 200 major corporations. The Jews truly own us.