Local lawmakers were among dozens of demonstrators demanding a ceasefire in the Isr🔯ael-Hamas war who were arrested outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home on Friday night, according to police sources.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Grand Army Plaza for the rally, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace —﷽ a self-described anti-Zionist activist group — before marching a few blocks to the senator’s Park Slope residence and blocking the street.
“New York Jews blocking @SenSchumer’s home demanding a ceasefire NOW,” Jewish Voice for Peace Action .
Protesters held a large banner that read, “Jews say stop genocide against Palestinians” in front of Schumer’s building’s door with several police officers standing nearby.
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According to Jewish Voice for Peace, those arrested included “rabbis, politicians, schol🌌ars, and descendants of holocaust survivors — ages 20 to 8ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ0,” .
Assembly members Zohran Kwame Mamdani (D-Queens) and Marcela Mitaynes (D-Brooklyn) were among those arrested at the rally, sourc꧙es said.
They will be issued summonses for💜 blocking vehicu✃lar traffic, the sources said.
Schumer, the highest elected Jewish official in the US, is departing for Israel this weekend, where he will lead fellow senato🦩rs to show support for the country’s government, his oജffice announced earlier on Friday.
He and the delegation will meet with Israel’s new emergency government, including Prime Ministe൩r Benjamin Netanyahu, where they will discuss what resource🐲s the US can provide in its fight against Hamas, a spokesperson for the senator told The Post.
Earlier Friday In Manhattan, pro-Palestinian demonstrators mar🐲ched from Baruch College in Midtown through Times Square to United Nations Headquarters on East 45th Street, waving flags and holding signs demanding an end to the war.
An NYPD spokesperson said a total tally on the number of arrests from the demonstrations would not be ava🦩ilable until Saturday.
In March, more than 200 protesters demanding an end for all US military funding to Israel were arrested outside of Schumer’s home.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which also organized that protest, said at the time it was protesting 𝐆Schumer’s support for mob violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians.
