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More than 200 “Jewish” anti-Israel protesters arrested after storming New York Stock Exchange
Scores of pro-Paleostinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows. A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voice for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time. The group immediately started screaming "Free Paleostine" and quickly brandished signs reading "Jews for Paleostine’s freedom" as they blocked off the building and demanded the US government "fund FEMA, not genocide." At one point, they dressed the iconic bronze Fearless Girl statue in one of their shirts emblazoned with the phrase "Stop arming Israel." Roughly 200 protesters were nabbed by cops, the group’s political director, Beth Miller, told The Post, with police later confirming that 206 were booked. Cops could be seen cuffing multiple protesters and hauling them away on Department of Correction buses. The crowd is believed to have swelled to as many as 500 people before dispersing at noon, cops added. "Today there were 500 Jews who came here, in front of the New York Stock Exchange, to shut down business as usual on Wall Street with a message to say the US government should stop sending weapons to the Israeli government and stop profiting from the genocide of Paleostinians," Miller told The Post. "The reason we were here, specifically as Jews, is because the Biden administration and the Israeli government often say this genocide they are committing is in the name of Jewish safety and we reject that with every fiber of our being." She added: "We were taught in our Jewish tradition that every single life is a universe and that to destroy a single life is to destroy an entire universe." The NYSE declined to comment on the protest. JVP is a nonprofit group that touts itself as "the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world" with allegedly 300,000 supporters. Founded in 1996, the group calls for a free Paleostine, with its Columbia University chapter notably suspended last year over the anti-Israel protests that erupted on campus. The Anti-Defamation League has slammed the JVP as "a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism." In its 2023 federal tax returns, the JVP reported revenue of nearly $3.32 million, according to ProPublica, with the group saying the bulk of its income comes from individual contributions. Related: Jewish Voices for Peace: 2023-11-13 Dark money pass-though Arabella Advisors tied to group organizing anti-Israel protests Jewish Voices for Peace: 2019-08-17 Rep. Tlaib to Attend Event With Pro-BDS Group Instead of Visiting Israel Related: Jewish Voice for Peace: 2024-09-29 Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC Jewish Voice for Peace: 2024-09-06 Portland, Maine, city council votes to divest from companies doing business with Israel Jewish Voice for Peace: 2024-09-01 Universities anti-Israel protests round-up: The school year starts | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Didn’t really shut it down. Trading was normal yesterday and seems like it will open normally today |
| Posted by: Lord garth 2024-10-15 08:58 |
| #2 Cops could be seen cuffing multiple protesters Guess Wall Street is different than campus or Seattle. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-10-15 08:16 |
| #1 this is allowed because the oligarchs - the rockefellers, gates, clintons, soroses, saudi oil princes, qatari gas princes and all the corporations they own want it to happen it's happening because these oligarchs want our society to be riven by dissenting groups who fight each other so that we are not unified with a responsive national democracy that represents us which could boss them around they want us divided and fighting over identity and foreign wars so they can continue to rob us and write the laws they want |
| Posted by: Anon1 2024-10-15 00:51 |