‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home
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‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder
Just so it's not lost on anyone why they were arrested:
“We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the crowd.
“This is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism. Not in our name. Let Gaza live.”
@caveman The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.