Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.
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.
3,000 activists from Jewish organizations organized a sit-in, including a seder dinner on the occasion of Passover, outside the home of Congressional Majority Leader #ChuckSchumer in #NewYork, to protest the United States’ continuous funding and arming of Israel in its genocidal… pic.twitter.com/WbtJZJMXYx
— Megaphone News English (@MegaphoneNewsEN) April 24, 2024
Thousands of Jewish anti-genocide protesters have gathered for a Passover Seder protest in Brooklyn, New York pic.twitter.com/TdyuXbVoKo
— Nina Lakhani (@ninalakhani) April 23, 2024
