More than 40 was arrested when protesting against the Gaza war at the Trump Hotel in New York New York
More than 40 people protested against the war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was exacerbated outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City on Monday evening.
The protest, organized by IFNOTNOW, a group of American Jewish American to combat preoccupation, began earlier in the evening in Columbus Circle. Hundreds gather under the slogan “Trump: Jews do not say more” to demand an end to the war in Gaza and that the Trump administration is pressuring Israel to allow greater humanitarian aid to enter the lands, as health officials there continue to report deaths resulting from hunger and malnutrition.
“Let’s not slip, the exclusive siege in Gaza in Gaza, Israeli Gaza is a policy of ethnic cleansing through forced collective hunger,” said Moria Kaplan, the temporary executive director of IFNOTNOW, during her speech to the crowd. “It is an inner, indescribable insult, it cannot be understood to our common humanity and those who implement it and spread our Jewish symbols, the two languages and traditions to defend and justify it, and this is why I am encouraging to see such a group of Jews and Jewish organizations coming today with one voice that contradicts it, not among us, but from the adopted.
“We need the United States government to use its great influence to end this terror,” she added.
The demonstrators retained the factors that read “Ethnic cleansing”, and “Never again now” “Gaza’s hunger” and “not in our name”, and included speakers Roth Missengers, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of Tarah, Brad Lander, New York City Observer.
Lander said: “Yesterday was the Jewish vacation of Tisha Paf, in which the Jews are saddened by the destruction of the people of Israel, and what we are witnessing now is the destruction caused by the state of Israel.”
He added, “It was continuing for several months.” “But to see forced collective hunger, infants, and starvation of families, in addition to all bombing, destruction and displacement, it is necessary for the Jews to scream with a higher voice, and to do more organization to ensure that we stop sending offensive weapons, bombs and rifles that we ask to some extent in Jaza in Gaza. This is the reason that we are here tonight.”
Also in the attendance, Lili Greenberg was a former assistant for the Chief of Staff at the US Department of Interior The Biden Harris administration, which publicly resigned in May 2024 regarding dealing with the administration for the war in Gaza.
“I was the first, unfortunately, the only official official Jewish official, who publicly resigned in protest against the unconditional support of the administration of Israel during the war in Gaza, said.”
Greenberg Cole said she was noticing new people among the crowds protesting the Israeli war in Gaza.
“There is something that turns,” she said. “The attendance is really important, and our role as Americans in particular – our government and tax dollars finance this.”
“We have a commitment, specifically the American Jews, to defend what is happening in our name,” Greenberg Call added.
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The Palestinian photographer, Motaz Aziza, was also in the crowd and made brief notes.
After 8 pm, the group started walking to the Trump International Hotel. They gathered in front of the hotel, sitting on the street, and singing while chanting.
Around 8.15 pm Easter, New York Police Administration officers began arresting the demonstrators for their ban on the street. It was not clear from 9 pm EST, how many people were arrested, but the guardian counted at least more than 40 people. Those who were arrested on police trucks were loaded and the crowd was separated shortly after.
In a press release issued after the arrests, IFNOTNOW said that this mobilization was the “widest coalition of a tent in the Jewish community against atrocities in Gaza in the past two years, which represents the vast majority of American Jews who are angry with the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.”