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Dressed uniformly in black, the protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace gathered on the pedestal shortly before 1 p.m. when they dropped massive banners with calls for a cease-fire and other slogans, such as “The Whole World Is Watching” and “Never Again for Anyone.” The group sang “Cease-fire now” and occupied the national monument for about 20 minutes before dispersing. The protest, which the group said included more than 500 people, continued on a ferry headed back to Manhattan.
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“We came to the Statue of Liberty today because we are inspired by the words of our Jewish ancestor, Emma Lazarus, that are etched into the monument,” said Jay Saper, an JVP organizer. “Those words compel us to take action to support the Palestinians of Gaza yearning to be free. And we will continue to take action until we bring about a cease-fire and until Palestinians are free.”
"This is one of the greatest symbols of New York City and our supposed commitments to universal values of liberty and freedom and respite,” he said. “And yet what we’ve seen is our country allowing for a genocide to take place.”
Bunch of clowns
How exactly is not wanting genocide a bad thing?
Generally when you make yourself look like an idiot in the process
Because you can’t close down a National Monument and achieve anything.
If there goal was to make the news. Then they achieved it.
If there goal was to spread a message. Then they achieved it.
I could go on, but I fear you don’t care for facts.
Cutting Israel from SWIFT, stop exportation/importation, freeze assets, stop providing weapons/ammunition, put in “technical” quarantine any co-israeli officers/white collars in our countries.
For a country like Israel, I think it might be a little bit more effective. At least, let’s see, they never got “punished”, they are like spoiled kids, so a bit of education, you know.
I feel like it would be more effective to shut down a large street and for more than 20 minutes but it’s better than nothing
That’s been working well for climate activists everywhere…
Singing kumbaya and asking nicely it is then.
If another 10000 people blow upwe break out the celebrities singing Imagine
This is the best argument for stopping the war. I can’t handle the cringe from another Imagine
All that accomplishes is pissing people off and making them less empathic to your cause. Not to mention it has killed people by blocking emergency services.
This protest is aimed at the government, not US society. While not the most radical, its important to show just how many people care about this cause.
Person super ignorant about the situation here:
When they say the Palestinians “want to be free” do they mean from the war, or were they not previously?
I think this is self-preservation and humanitarian at this point. Racists don’t care if you are Zionist or Jewish, just like they don’t care if you are an innocent civilian or Hamas. Hamas and Zionists are on the same page of terror. Needs to end before innocent Jews who have nothing to do with this are attacked and killed, and of course, people trying to just get away from US-funded bombs.
A cease fire just means more dead Israelis. At least according to the Palestinians the other day when interviewed. The leadership is openly saying they intend on doing 10/7 style attacks again and again…so what country could possibly go ahead with a ceasefire?
At least according to the Palestinians the other day when interviewed.
I think you mean to say Hamas, who are not supported by the majority of Palestinians.
A cease fire just means more dead Israelis
A cease fire means no more dead anyone. A lack of a cease fire means you just want more dead Palestinians.
Israel is perfectly capable of defending itself without committing genocide
a cease fire means no more dead anyone
On 6/10 there was a cease fire - that didn’t prevent Israelis from being slaughtered. Hamas showed no* indication of stopping their massacares. In fact, they did the opposite - they only talk about how glad they are with the massacare and how they intend to do that again.
Israel is perfectly capable of defending itself without comitting genocide
Then what was the 7/10 attack? Even with oppressing the region they can’t defend against such terror acts without their air force.
On 6/10 there was a cease fire - that didn’t prevent Israelis from being slaughtered. Hamas showed no* indication of stopping their massacares. In fact, they did the opposite - they only talk about how glad they are with the massacare and how they intend to do that again.
You talk about Hamas but Israel mainly kills innocent civilians. Weird.
I don’t like war generally but go ahead, kill Hamas. The problem is all the other people that are killed.
And also, before the conflict there had already been more Palestinians killed in the west bank in 2023 than any year since 2005. So did Israel respect this “cease fire”?
Obviously when people say cease fire they mean a real one.
Then what was the 7/10 attack? Even with oppressing the region they can’t defend against such terror acts without their air force.
A failure. That doesn’t justify genocide of people who didn’t do anything wrong and most of whom won’t even remember the last election.
Israel mainly kills innocent civilians
You mean during this war or before? If during, then yeah probably (although Hamas won’t release the numbers of terrorists/civilians killed) But again, that’s just war, and war is horrible. We can all agree on that.
And about 2023 being the deadliest one - it’s so much more nuanced than this - it’s indeed the Israeli government’s fault that things escalated since it’s one of the most right-wing governments Israel has ever seen - and their lack of competence should and is blamed for the escalation and for allowing such a major attack to happen. Israel’s government has a lot to answer after this war, to a lot of people - especially to Israelis.
That is to say, the escalation in violence was in the west bank, not in Gaza. Gaza was a relatively quiet area for months up until the attack (except for disturbenceses on the fence which Israel stupidly disregarded)
obviously when people say cease fire they mean a real one
Then by that standard there have been 0 cease fires in Gaza since Hamas took over. Rockets are fired from Gaza at least once a year - is that peace in your eyes? Calling for it now after all those years is just ridiculous. Maybe a pause for humanitarian aid, but ceasefire? Basically giving Gaza back to Hamas? What sane Israeli would live in one of the slaughtered Kibutz while Hamas is still in power?
A failure. That doesn’t justify genocide of people
War != Genocide. They both have massive civilian deaths - but it’s an important distinction. The 7/10 attack does indeed justify entering a war - where sadly lots of civilians are killed. Poor Gazans have both Israel and Hamas to blame for allowing this war to happen.
