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[H1]Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Live updates[/H1]
Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Updates
Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, said classes will provide a virtual learning option through the end of the semester.
www.usatoday.com
Has anybody seen any social media footage? Is this all ethnicities or mostly arab protesters only?[h1]Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Live updates[/h1]Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Updates
Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, said classes will provide a virtual learning option through the end of the semester.www.usatoday.com
If this becomes mainstream, while i was not around, this is how the anti-Vietnam protests took momentum. Thought in this case it started only at elite institutions. I don't believe that was the case in anti-vietnam
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[h1]Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Live updates[/h1]
Protests in New York as US campuses brace for more unrest over Gaza war: Updates
Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, said classes will provide a virtual learning option through the end of the semester.
www.usatoday.com
All ethnicities and a lot of white protestors. It is spreading now to all campuses all over America. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pr...er-cities-college-campuses-simmer-2024-04-23/
Clear separation between Jews and Zionists, a big protest opposing US support for Israel, and getting arrested like the protestors at universities.
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"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."
www.theguardian.com
[H1]'Not like other Passovers': hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder[/H1]
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home
Nina Lakhani
Wed 24 Apr 2024 02.28 EDTLast modified on Wed 24 Apr 2024 11.29 EDT
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.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-reports-of-mass-graves-at-two-gaza-hospitals
The protesters called on Schumer – who is among a minority of Democrats to recently criticize the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – to stop arming Israel's military, which relies heavily on US weapons, jet fuel and other military equipment.
Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Jewish group gathered to protest in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
"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."
The mass arrests came after the seder rituals. Speakers included journalist and author Naomi Klein, Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, and several Jewish students suspended from Columbia University and Barnard College over the protests that have rocked US campuses in recent days.
Rabbi Miriam Grossman, from Brooklyn, led a prayer before the first cup of ritual wine. "We pray for everyone besieged, for everyone facing starvation and mass bombardment."
"This Passover is not like other Passovers," said Klein. "So many are not with their families but this movement is our family," she added in reference to political disagreements that have divided Jewish families since the start of the war.
Klein spoke after eating the bitter herbs that represent the bitterness of slavery at the seder. "Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by its very nature. Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethnostate, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews."
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Jewish communities have often used Passover to protest about global injustice. Tuesday's protest, organizers said, was inspired by the 1969 Freedom Seder, organized by Arthur Waskow on the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's death. The original Freedom Seder sought to connect the Jewish exodus story with the struggle for civil rights in the US and against the war in Vietnam.
One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: "Passover is about liberation. In our family, Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … As Americans, the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying."
Jewish groups have staged a number of high-profile antiwar actions in the US since 7 October, shutting down sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty. Jewish activists held another seder on Monday, the first night of Passover, at Columbia's protest encampment.
Israel's offensive has killed at least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 13,000 children. The 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel. Tuesday marked 200 days since the war began.
Telling quote
"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."
‘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
www.theguardian.com
[H1]'Not like other Passovers': hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder[/H1]
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home
Nina Lakhani
Wed 24 Apr 2024 02.28 EDTLast modified on Wed 24 Apr 2024 11.29 EDT
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.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-reports-of-mass-graves-at-two-gaza-hospitals
The protesters called on Schumer – who is among a minority of Democrats to recently criticize the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – to stop arming Israel's military, which relies heavily on US weapons, jet fuel and other military equipment.
Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Jewish group gathered to protest in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
"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."
The mass arrests came after the seder rituals. Speakers included journalist and author Naomi Klein, Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, and several Jewish students suspended from Columbia University and Barnard College over the protests that have rocked US campuses in recent days.
Rabbi Miriam Grossman, from Brooklyn, led a prayer before the first cup of ritual wine. "We pray for everyone besieged, for everyone facing starvation and mass bombardment."
"This Passover is not like other Passovers," said Klein. "So many are not with their families but this movement is our family," she added in reference to political disagreements that have divided Jewish families since the start of the war.
Klein spoke after eating the bitter herbs that represent the bitterness of slavery at the seder. "Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by its very nature. Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethnostate, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews."
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Jewish communities have often used Passover to protest about global injustice. Tuesday's protest, organizers said, was inspired by the 1969 Freedom Seder, organized by Arthur Waskow on the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's death. The original Freedom Seder sought to connect the Jewish exodus story with the struggle for civil rights in the US and against the war in Vietnam.
One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: "Passover is about liberation. In our family, Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … As Americans, the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying."
Jewish groups have staged a number of high-profile antiwar actions in the US since 7 October, shutting down sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty. Jewish activists held another seder on Monday, the first night of Passover, at Columbia's protest encampment.
Israel's offensive has killed at least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 13,000 children. The 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel. Tuesday marked 200 days since the war began.
Clear separation between Jews and Zionists, a big protest opposing US support for Israel, and getting arrested like the protestors at universities.
Telling quote
"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."
www.theguardian.com
[H1]'Not like other Passovers': hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder[/H1]
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home
Nina Lakhani
Wed 24 Apr 2024 02.28 EDTLast modified on Wed 24 Apr 2024 11.29 EDT
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.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-reports-of-mass-graves-at-two-gaza-hospitals
The protesters called on Schumer – who is among a minority of Democrats to recently criticize the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – to stop arming Israel's military, which relies heavily on US weapons, jet fuel and other military equipment.
Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Jewish group gathered to protest in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
"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."
The mass arrests came after the seder rituals. Speakers included journalist and author Naomi Klein, Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, and several Jewish students suspended from Columbia University and Barnard College over the protests that have rocked US campuses in recent days.
Rabbi Miriam Grossman, from Brooklyn, led a prayer before the first cup of ritual wine. "We pray for everyone besieged, for everyone facing starvation and mass bombardment."
"This Passover is not like other Passovers," said Klein. "So many are not with their families but this movement is our family," she added in reference to political disagreements that have divided Jewish families since the start of the war.
Klein spoke after eating the bitter herbs that represent the bitterness of slavery at the seder. "Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by its very nature. Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethnostate, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews."
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Jewish communities have often used Passover to protest about global injustice. Tuesday's protest, organizers said, was inspired by the 1969 Freedom Seder, organized by Arthur Waskow on the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's death. The original Freedom Seder sought to connect the Jewish exodus story with the struggle for civil rights in the US and against the war in Vietnam.
One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: "Passover is about liberation. In our family, Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … As Americans, the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying."
Jewish groups have staged a number of high-profile antiwar actions in the US since 7 October, shutting down sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty. Jewish activists held another seder on Monday, the first night of Passover, at Columbia's protest encampment.
Israel's offensive has killed at least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 13,000 children. The 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel. Tuesday marked 200 days since the war began.
Telling quote
"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."
‘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
www.theguardian.com
[H1]'Not like other Passovers': hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder[/H1]
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home
Nina Lakhani
Wed 24 Apr 2024 02.28 EDTLast modified on Wed 24 Apr 2024 11.29 EDT
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.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-reports-of-mass-graves-at-two-gaza-hospitals
The protesters called on Schumer – who is among a minority of Democrats to recently criticize the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – to stop arming Israel's military, which relies heavily on US weapons, jet fuel and other military equipment.
Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Jewish group gathered to protest in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
"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."
The mass arrests came after the seder rituals. Speakers included journalist and author Naomi Klein, Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, and several Jewish students suspended from Columbia University and Barnard College over the protests that have rocked US campuses in recent days.
Rabbi Miriam Grossman, from Brooklyn, led a prayer before the first cup of ritual wine. "We pray for everyone besieged, for everyone facing starvation and mass bombardment."
"This Passover is not like other Passovers," said Klein. "So many are not with their families but this movement is our family," she added in reference to political disagreements that have divided Jewish families since the start of the war.
Klein spoke after eating the bitter herbs that represent the bitterness of slavery at the seder. "Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by its very nature. Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethnostate, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews."
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Jewish communities have often used Passover to protest about global injustice. Tuesday's protest, organizers said, was inspired by the 1969 Freedom Seder, organized by Arthur Waskow on the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's death. The original Freedom Seder sought to connect the Jewish exodus story with the struggle for civil rights in the US and against the war in Vietnam.
One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: "Passover is about liberation. In our family, Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … As Americans, the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying."
Jewish groups have staged a number of high-profile antiwar actions in the US since 7 October, shutting down sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty. Jewish activists held another seder on Monday, the first night of Passover, at Columbia's protest encampment.
Israel's offensive has killed at least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 13,000 children. The 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel. Tuesday marked 200 days since the war began.
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There are many anti-imperialist Jews in America, though, and they oppose the carte blanche given to Israel. This is a big difference between us and the West. We never oppose our fatally wrong policies. Our perilous Afghan policy was a DOA, but none openly criticized it for the last 30 years, and now that Afghans are in bed with someone else, our establishment has slowly let loose media criticism, albeit softer .
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[H1]University of Texas anti-Israel protesters released from jail[/H1]
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University of Texas anti-Israel protesters released from jail | Fox News Video
Some protesters arrested at an anti-Israel rally at the University of Texas at Austin Wednesday were released from jail Thursday. (Fox 7 Austin)
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