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‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

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.

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.

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.

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, anti-war actions in the US since 7 October, shutting down sites from the Capitol to the Statue of Liberty.


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