Protesters blocked traffic to the Brooklyn Bridge, embodying the ancient Jewish tenets of justice, righteousness, and saving life.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37043756

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    I’m supposing these Jews, according the bullshit perverted logic the United States MSM has been using for decades…are “antisemitic”.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    8·
    5 days ago

    Jews have opposed Zionism—the mainly European settler-colonial movement to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine—since the earliest days of the experiment. Even some early Zionists foresaw the genesis of events like the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, with Ahad Ha’am, father of cultural Zionism, writing after an 1891 trip to Palestine that “if the time comes when [Jews are] encroaching upon the native population, they will not easily yield their place.”

    I wish more articles about the genocide would make this clear to readers less versed in Jewish Antizionist history