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

  • @undercrust@lemmy.caEnglish
    8•6 months ago

    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.”