Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Chuck Schumer’s office in New York City | New York
On Friday, dozens of pro -child protesters came together at the New York City office of US senator Chuck Schumer. Mass arrests The elected officials joined activists from Jewish Voice for peace outside the Midtown office.
New York Municipal Assembly Member Tiffany Caban and State Representative Claire Valdez Among those arrested. The demonstrators brought together pots and pans with some kind of noise protest.
The protest at the Schumer Office was one of the few demonstrations in the Great US cities on Friday.
Peace spokesman Jay Saper said, “We urge them to help them, to stop bombing, and to allow the Palestinian people right now,” he said. New York Post. “This hunger crisis in Gaza is at the point of overturning and therefore we have to raise our voices.”
In New York, there was a demonstration to emphasize the role of Egypt in Gaza’s border policy, apart from the Egyptian consulate. Activists reported that at least five people were detained after chaining the United Nations in the Egyptian mission of New York.
Accordingly A writing The goal of protest by the Palestinian Liberation Assembly, which organized the demonstration, was to “demand the Egyptian Government to stop the cooperation” – “genocide is the Zionist regime ve and ilgil end the produced famine of Palestinians in Gaza”.
In Los Angeles, activists organized another pot and pan protest. “Families are faced with famine and children die without malnutrition,” written on social media. “We will make the people of Koreatown hear the sound of hunger in Gaza.”
A few other Protests Planned On Friday evening, in large US cities, including Arlington and Texas; Newark, New Jersey; Houston, Texas; Boise, Idaho; Portland, Oregon; West Hartford, Connecticut; Baltimore, Maryland and San Jose, California.
On Thursday, protesters targeted the New York Times Center in Manhattan and “Nyt is a lie, Gaza dies”With the brave white letters on the side of the building. The red paint was contaminated in the Times logo.
Some cities in the United States continuously organized protests to express the support for the ceasefire in Gaza, and for about two years, Israel entered a military campaign in response to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack.
Some cities have been home to Palestine Vigils since the end of 2023. In some places, organizers use these meetings to meet. legal support For protesters who face arrest or disciplinary activities on campuses.
The campus -based movement, which supported Gaza, once gathered around the camps in the spring of 2024, and returned to a year of legal and forth between various institutions that started with the accusation of Donald Trump’s administration and the president of the president and the protests of military strikes in Gaza on campuses.
School officials at Columbia University Disciplined More than 80 students For their participation in protests, including deportation, suspended and canceled degrees. Columbia recently announced an agreement to pay more than 220 million dollars to equip Frux because Trump describes the university as the university’s inability to silence the university.
Historian Rashid Khalidi protesting the university’s compliance with the Trump administration, in a letter published by Guardian, canceled the 2025 Fall course course, saying that it was an antithesis of academic freedom ”.
