Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during Wall Street demonstration
Oct. 15, 2024
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Monday outside of the New York Stock Exchange with signs that read "As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms." About 206 people were arrested after they breached a security fence around the building, according to the New York Police Department. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters failed to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, despite chants of "As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms," outside of the lower Manhattan building.
None of the approximately 500 protesters, wearing red shirts, made it inside the building or disrupted trading, but some chained themselves to security fences around the NYSE on Broad Street.
About 206 people were arrested after they breached the barrier, according to the New York Police Department. The protesters, who started demonstrating at about 9:30 a.m. EDT, dispersed about three hours later.
Protesters with signs, "Jews for Palestinian Freedom" and "Fund FEMA Not Genocide," said they were rallying against Israel's bombing of Gaza.
"Let's be clear once and for all: the United States is not arming Israel to protect Jews. The United States is arming Israel for its own profit and control of the region," Jewish Voice for Peace, the Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group that organized Monday's protest, wrote in a post on X along with video showing protesters being carried away by NYPD.
Oct. 15, 2024
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Monday outside of the New York Stock Exchange with signs that read "As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms." About 206 people were arrested after they breached a security fence around the building, according to the New York Police Department. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters failed to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, despite chants of "As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms," outside of the lower Manhattan building.
None of the approximately 500 protesters, wearing red shirts, made it inside the building or disrupted trading, but some chained themselves to security fences around the NYSE on Broad Street.
About 206 people were arrested after they breached the barrier, according to the New York Police Department. The protesters, who started demonstrating at about 9:30 a.m. EDT, dispersed about three hours later.
Protesters with signs, "Jews for Palestinian Freedom" and "Fund FEMA Not Genocide," said they were rallying against Israel's bombing of Gaza.
"Let's be clear once and for all: the United States is not arming Israel to protect Jews. The United States is arming Israel for its own profit and control of the region," Jewish Voice for Peace, the Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group that organized Monday's protest, wrote in a post on X along with video showing protesters being carried away by NYPD.
"The reason we're here is to demand that the U.S. government stop sending bombs to Israel and stop profiting off of Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," said Beth Miller of Jewish Voice for Peace.
"Because what's been happening for the last year is that Israel is using U.S. bombs to massacre communities in Gaza while simultaneously weapons manufacturers on Wall Street are seeing their stock prices skyrocket," Miller added.
Israel launched its war in Gaza, just over a year ago after Hamas militants' surprise attack in Israel. The Oct. 7, 2023, attack killed more than 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage. Israel's ongoing war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Israel has also vowed revenge after Iran retaliated for the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles in a limited attack earlier this month.
"Endless war, profits soar, arms embargo now!" protesters chanted Monday in New York.
"As Jews, many of us are descendants of those who survived genocide. Our ancestors taught us to never be bystanders in the face of injustice," Jewish Voice for Peace wrote in a post on X.
"We are all responsible for taking action to change the course of history and stop this genocide that is being waged in our name."
"Because what's been happening for the last year is that Israel is using U.S. bombs to massacre communities in Gaza while simultaneously weapons manufacturers on Wall Street are seeing their stock prices skyrocket," Miller added.
Israel launched its war in Gaza, just over a year ago after Hamas militants' surprise attack in Israel. The Oct. 7, 2023, attack killed more than 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage. Israel's ongoing war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Israel has also vowed revenge after Iran retaliated for the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles in a limited attack earlier this month.
"Endless war, profits soar, arms embargo now!" protesters chanted Monday in New York.
"As Jews, many of us are descendants of those who survived genocide. Our ancestors taught us to never be bystanders in the face of injustice," Jewish Voice for Peace wrote in a post on X.
"We are all responsible for taking action to change the course of history and stop this genocide that is being waged in our name."
Protesters stage sit-in outside New York Stock Exchange to spotlight Gaza attacks
Rob Wile and Kyla Guilfoil and Brandon Gomez, CNBC and Max Butterworth and Mithil Aggarwal and Brittany Kubicko
Mon, October 14, 2024
Police officers detain demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
A group of protesters staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Approximately 500 individuals representing Jewish Voices for Peace, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group, arrived at the exchange at 85 Broad St. as part of an "unscheduled protest" just before the stock market's official 9:30 a.m. opening, according to a New York Police Department spokesperson.
Demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas lock themselves on the fence while they protest and occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
A total of 206 arrests were made, the spokesperson said. An NYSE representative said at least one person had handcuffed himself between an interior and exterior door.
In an email to NBC News ahead of the action, a spokesperson for the protest group said "hundreds" were planning to gather at the exchange to demand that the U.S. government "fund FEMA, not genocide."
"As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms," Jewish Voices for Peace said in a post on X. "The stock prices of weapons manufacturers have skyrocketed this year. The U.S. war economy is profiting from genocide."
Police officers detain demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Israeli conflict last week passed the first anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas militants.
A renewed Israeli operation in northern Gaza put a refugee camp and hospitals in the area under siege over the weekend, with more than 200 people killed.
Early Monday, a fire broke out in an encampment housing displaced civilians following Israeli attacks in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
Police officers detain a demonstrator protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Associated Press reported Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mulling a plan to seal northern Gaza in an attempt to "starve out" Hamas militants there, something that would also affect hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters outside of New York Stock Exchange
Victoria Bekiempis
Mon, October 14, 2024
New York police department officers detain some protesters and intervene in the pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the New York Stock Exchange building in New York, on Monday.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
New York City police arrested numerous pro-Gaza protesters outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday after a demonstration highlighting Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.
Demonstrators voiced chants such as “Let Gaza live!” and “Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!” and managed to get inside a security fence outside the exchange on Broad Street in downtown Manhattan.
They then sat down and waited for police to take them into custody, according to the Associated Press.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which organized the protest, said: “ 200 Jews are risking arrest risking arrest in the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.
“Stocks are rising while children are dying. As Israel drops bombs on homes, schools, and hospitals in Gaza, Wall Street booms, and all the members of Congress who invest in these companies get richer every day,” Jay Saper of Jewish Voice for Peace said in a press release.
Video of the protest posted by independent journalist Noah Hurowitz on Twitter/X shows a large group of protesters walking briskly toward the exchange, converging in front of the entrance, and blocking it. Police reportedly told some media that there had been up to 200 arrests.
Asked to confirm the number of arrests, an NYPD spokesperson said there had been multiple, but that they did not have a final number yet. Police were also witnessed detaining a credentialed journalist and then released her shortly thereafter, Hurowitz said on X.
The demonstration came a week after the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack against Israel. Hamas fighters crossed into Israel from Gaza and killed 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans, and took at least 251 hostages of whom nearly 100 remain in Gaza, according to NBC News.
Israel has since carried out a military campaign in Gaza. The Gaza ministry of health says that more than 41,000 have died, ABC News said.
Related: Protesters rally across the US on 7 October anniversary – in pictures
The Israel-Gaza war has expanded into other parts of the region and stoked fears that military action will spread further, especially if Iran carries out larger attacks than it has done so far. Hezbollah, allied with Iran, on 8 October 2023 started launching rockets at northern Israel in support of Hamas.
The conflict deepened recently after Israel bombed southern Lebanon, the Bekaa valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs, and deployed ground troops across the border.
“At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza – with US-made bombs. The Biden Administration wants the public to believe that the US’s $18 billion slushfund for Israel’s genocide is for the sake of ‘Jewish safety,’” Elena Stein, director of organizing strategy for Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a press release.
“We’re here refusing to be used as the US’s moral cover and to expose its true interests: financial gain and control in the region. Weapons embargo now,” Stein also said.
Jewish Protesters Target Wall Street As Israeli Strikes Hit Hospitals In Gaza
Lex McMenamin
Mon, October 14, 2024
Sophie Hurwitz
Wall Street’s Monday began with Jewish protesters and anti-war advocates gathering outside the New York Stock Exchange in protest of U.S. funding for Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, some reportedly locking themselves to the gates of the building, in an action organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. Protesters laid out a banner reading “Gaza Bombed, Wall Street Booms” in front of themselves on the street in front of the Stock Exchange.
In a press release, Jewish Voice for Peace noted that the stock price of arms manufacturing companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have “skyrocketed” in the past year of warfare. “As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms,” Emma Seligman, writer and director of the film “Bottoms,” said in a statement to Teen Vogue from the protest. “Right now, the Israeli military is dropping bombs on homes, schools, refugee camps, and hospitals in North Gaza. Meanwhile, the members of Congress who vote to send these weapons to Israel invest in these companies and get richer every day.”
Today has been a day of carnage. Footage of the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in central Gaza spread across social media, showing burning tents housing sleeping families in refuge, as well as one man burning alive, as reported by the Washington Post, which puts the reported death toll from the attack currently at 70. The majority of those injured were women and children. Meanwhile, the Guardian reported, another Israeli strike killed at least 18 in the town of Aitou in northern Lebanon.
That same day, it was reported by the Associated Press that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “seal[ing] off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.”
At the end of last week, the U.N. announced that no food has entered northern Gaza since the beginning of October, and that “aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months,” per ABC News. A U.N. inquiry, also at the end of last week, “accused Israel of carrying out a ‘concerted policy’ of destroying [Gaza’s] health care system,” reported CNN. Per the BBC, the same inquiry called the attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare workers “[amounted to] the crime against humanity of ‘extermination.’”
“At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza – with US-made bombs,” Elena Stein, Director of Organizing Strategy for Jewish Voice for Peace, said via a statement. “The Biden Administration wants the public to believe that the US’s $18 billion slush fund for Israel’s genocide is for the sake of ‘Jewish safety.’ We’re here refusing to be used as the US’s moral cover and to expose its true interests: financial gain and control in the region. Weapons embargo now.”
A JVP protester is arrested.Jewish Voice for Peace
JVP connected their action at the Stock Exchange targeting those they accuse of profiting off the war to the recent Hurricanes Helene and Milton: FEMA spent almost half its disaster relief budget for the next 12 months in the first eight days of the fiscal year, right after the U.S. government approved $8.7 billion in military funding to Israel. A banner at the protest read “FUND FEMA NOT GENOCIDE.”
The protest is in part a reference to the first action from the protest group ACT UP in 1987, targeting pharmaceutical companies amid the AIDS crisis. Two years later, a similar protest from ACT UP became the first to disrupt the opening bell of the Stock Exchange. Their protests helped force lowered prices for AIDS medication.
Protesters locked themselves to doors at the New York Stock Exchange.Jewish Voice for Peace
A protester with Jewish Voice for Peace is arrested by New York police.
Mira Wassef
Rob Wile and Kyla Guilfoil and Brandon Gomez, CNBC and Max Butterworth and Mithil Aggarwal and Brittany Kubicko
Mon, October 14, 2024
Police officers detain demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
A group of protesters staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Approximately 500 individuals representing Jewish Voices for Peace, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group, arrived at the exchange at 85 Broad St. as part of an "unscheduled protest" just before the stock market's official 9:30 a.m. opening, according to a New York Police Department spokesperson.
Demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas lock themselves on the fence while they protest and occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
A total of 206 arrests were made, the spokesperson said. An NYSE representative said at least one person had handcuffed himself between an interior and exterior door.
In an email to NBC News ahead of the action, a spokesperson for the protest group said "hundreds" were planning to gather at the exchange to demand that the U.S. government "fund FEMA, not genocide."
"As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms," Jewish Voices for Peace said in a post on X. "The stock prices of weapons manufacturers have skyrocketed this year. The U.S. war economy is profiting from genocide."
Police officers detain demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Israeli conflict last week passed the first anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas militants.
A renewed Israeli operation in northern Gaza put a refugee camp and hospitals in the area under siege over the weekend, with more than 200 people killed.
Early Monday, a fire broke out in an encampment housing displaced civilians following Israeli attacks in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
Police officers detain a demonstrator protesting Israel's war against Hamas as they occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Associated Press reported Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mulling a plan to seal northern Gaza in an attempt to "starve out" Hamas militants there, something that would also affect hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters outside of New York Stock Exchange
Victoria Bekiempis
Mon, October 14, 2024
New York police department officers detain some protesters and intervene in the pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the New York Stock Exchange building in New York, on Monday.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
New York City police arrested numerous pro-Gaza protesters outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday after a demonstration highlighting Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.
Demonstrators voiced chants such as “Let Gaza live!” and “Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!” and managed to get inside a security fence outside the exchange on Broad Street in downtown Manhattan.
They then sat down and waited for police to take them into custody, according to the Associated Press.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which organized the protest, said: “ 200 Jews are risking arrest risking arrest in the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.
“Stocks are rising while children are dying. As Israel drops bombs on homes, schools, and hospitals in Gaza, Wall Street booms, and all the members of Congress who invest in these companies get richer every day,” Jay Saper of Jewish Voice for Peace said in a press release.
Video of the protest posted by independent journalist Noah Hurowitz on Twitter/X shows a large group of protesters walking briskly toward the exchange, converging in front of the entrance, and blocking it. Police reportedly told some media that there had been up to 200 arrests.
Asked to confirm the number of arrests, an NYPD spokesperson said there had been multiple, but that they did not have a final number yet. Police were also witnessed detaining a credentialed journalist and then released her shortly thereafter, Hurowitz said on X.
The demonstration came a week after the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack against Israel. Hamas fighters crossed into Israel from Gaza and killed 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans, and took at least 251 hostages of whom nearly 100 remain in Gaza, according to NBC News.
Israel has since carried out a military campaign in Gaza. The Gaza ministry of health says that more than 41,000 have died, ABC News said.
Related: Protesters rally across the US on 7 October anniversary – in pictures
The Israel-Gaza war has expanded into other parts of the region and stoked fears that military action will spread further, especially if Iran carries out larger attacks than it has done so far. Hezbollah, allied with Iran, on 8 October 2023 started launching rockets at northern Israel in support of Hamas.
The conflict deepened recently after Israel bombed southern Lebanon, the Bekaa valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs, and deployed ground troops across the border.
“At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza – with US-made bombs. The Biden Administration wants the public to believe that the US’s $18 billion slushfund for Israel’s genocide is for the sake of ‘Jewish safety,’” Elena Stein, director of organizing strategy for Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a press release.
“We’re here refusing to be used as the US’s moral cover and to expose its true interests: financial gain and control in the region. Weapons embargo now,” Stein also said.
Jewish Protesters Target Wall Street As Israeli Strikes Hit Hospitals In Gaza
Lex McMenamin
Mon, October 14, 2024
Sophie Hurwitz
Wall Street’s Monday began with Jewish protesters and anti-war advocates gathering outside the New York Stock Exchange in protest of U.S. funding for Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, some reportedly locking themselves to the gates of the building, in an action organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. Protesters laid out a banner reading “Gaza Bombed, Wall Street Booms” in front of themselves on the street in front of the Stock Exchange.
In a press release, Jewish Voice for Peace noted that the stock price of arms manufacturing companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have “skyrocketed” in the past year of warfare. “As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms,” Emma Seligman, writer and director of the film “Bottoms,” said in a statement to Teen Vogue from the protest. “Right now, the Israeli military is dropping bombs on homes, schools, refugee camps, and hospitals in North Gaza. Meanwhile, the members of Congress who vote to send these weapons to Israel invest in these companies and get richer every day.”
Today has been a day of carnage. Footage of the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in central Gaza spread across social media, showing burning tents housing sleeping families in refuge, as well as one man burning alive, as reported by the Washington Post, which puts the reported death toll from the attack currently at 70. The majority of those injured were women and children. Meanwhile, the Guardian reported, another Israeli strike killed at least 18 in the town of Aitou in northern Lebanon.
That same day, it was reported by the Associated Press that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “seal[ing] off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.”
At the end of last week, the U.N. announced that no food has entered northern Gaza since the beginning of October, and that “aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months,” per ABC News. A U.N. inquiry, also at the end of last week, “accused Israel of carrying out a ‘concerted policy’ of destroying [Gaza’s] health care system,” reported CNN. Per the BBC, the same inquiry called the attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare workers “[amounted to] the crime against humanity of ‘extermination.’”
“At this very moment, the Israeli military is massacring family after family in North Gaza – with US-made bombs,” Elena Stein, Director of Organizing Strategy for Jewish Voice for Peace, said via a statement. “The Biden Administration wants the public to believe that the US’s $18 billion slush fund for Israel’s genocide is for the sake of ‘Jewish safety.’ We’re here refusing to be used as the US’s moral cover and to expose its true interests: financial gain and control in the region. Weapons embargo now.”
A JVP protester is arrested.Jewish Voice for Peace
JVP connected their action at the Stock Exchange targeting those they accuse of profiting off the war to the recent Hurricanes Helene and Milton: FEMA spent almost half its disaster relief budget for the next 12 months in the first eight days of the fiscal year, right after the U.S. government approved $8.7 billion in military funding to Israel. A banner at the protest read “FUND FEMA NOT GENOCIDE.”
The protest is in part a reference to the first action from the protest group ACT UP in 1987, targeting pharmaceutical companies amid the AIDS crisis. Two years later, a similar protest from ACT UP became the first to disrupt the opening bell of the Stock Exchange. Their protests helped force lowered prices for AIDS medication.
Protesters locked themselves to doors at the New York Stock Exchange.Jewish Voice for Peace
A protester with Jewish Voice for Peace is arrested by New York police.
Jewish Voice for Peace
“ACT UP’s first action took place on Wall Street to protest the lack of funding for AIDS care and medications. Today, a growing anti-war movement returns to this street to demand healthcare not warfare,” artist and ACT UP activist Gregg Bordowitz, who was at the 1989 protest and joined the JVP action today, said in a statement. “For those of us still alive today the continuity of struggle and commitment remain clear.”
Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue
Pro-Palestinian protesters chain themselves to the door of the New York Stock Exchange
“ACT UP’s first action took place on Wall Street to protest the lack of funding for AIDS care and medications. Today, a growing anti-war movement returns to this street to demand healthcare not warfare,” artist and ACT UP activist Gregg Bordowitz, who was at the 1989 protest and joined the JVP action today, said in a statement. “For those of us still alive today the continuity of struggle and commitment remain clear.”
Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue
Pro-Palestinian protesters chain themselves to the door of the New York Stock Exchange
Mira Wassef
THE HILL
Mon, October 14, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters chain themselves to the door of the New York Stock Exchange
LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who chained themselves to the front door of the New York Stock Exchange were among hundreds arrested during a massive demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Monday, police said.
About 206 people were taken into custody during the protest at 11 Wall St., which began at 9:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan, according to the NYPD. The charges were not immediately available.
More: Latest News from PIX11
Approximately 500 people showed up at the event before the crowd dispersed about three hours later, police said.
The protesters lined the streets in the Financial District to protest Israel’s bombing of Gaza. They hung banners reading, “Jews for Palestinian Freedom,” “Jews Say Divest from Israel,” and “Fund FEMA Not Genocide.”
More News: Israel-Hamas War
“The reason we’re here is to demand that the U.S. government stop sending bombs to Israel and stop profiting off of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organized the demonstration. “Because what’s been happening for the last year is that Israel is using U.S. bombs to massacre communities in Gaza while simultaneously weapons manufacturers on Wall Street are seeing their stock prices skyrocket.”
The group chanted, “Let Gaza live!” and ”Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!” in front of the landmark building. None of the protesters got inside the exchange, but at least 200 made it inside a security fence on Broad Street.
The gathering was peaceful until about six people chained themselves to the front door of the New York Stock Exchange, police said. Several NYPD officers removed those protesters before several other demonstrators were seen boarding an NYC Correction bus near the famed building, Citizen App video shows.
The protest happened a week after the world marked one year since Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza, which has since spread to Lebanon and beyond.
More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began. At least 1,200 people were killed, and Hamas took 250 people hostage in its attack on Israel.
This story comprises reporting from The Associated Press.
Mira Wassef is a digital reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined PIX11 News in 2022. See more of her work here.
Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mon, October 14, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters chain themselves to the door of the New York Stock Exchange
LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who chained themselves to the front door of the New York Stock Exchange were among hundreds arrested during a massive demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Monday, police said.
About 206 people were taken into custody during the protest at 11 Wall St., which began at 9:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan, according to the NYPD. The charges were not immediately available.
More: Latest News from PIX11
Approximately 500 people showed up at the event before the crowd dispersed about three hours later, police said.
The protesters lined the streets in the Financial District to protest Israel’s bombing of Gaza. They hung banners reading, “Jews for Palestinian Freedom,” “Jews Say Divest from Israel,” and “Fund FEMA Not Genocide.”
More News: Israel-Hamas War
“The reason we’re here is to demand that the U.S. government stop sending bombs to Israel and stop profiting off of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organized the demonstration. “Because what’s been happening for the last year is that Israel is using U.S. bombs to massacre communities in Gaza while simultaneously weapons manufacturers on Wall Street are seeing their stock prices skyrocket.”
The group chanted, “Let Gaza live!” and ”Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!” in front of the landmark building. None of the protesters got inside the exchange, but at least 200 made it inside a security fence on Broad Street.
The gathering was peaceful until about six people chained themselves to the front door of the New York Stock Exchange, police said. Several NYPD officers removed those protesters before several other demonstrators were seen boarding an NYC Correction bus near the famed building, Citizen App video shows.
The protest happened a week after the world marked one year since Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza, which has since spread to Lebanon and beyond.
More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began. At least 1,200 people were killed, and Hamas took 250 people hostage in its attack on Israel.
This story comprises reporting from The Associated Press.
Mira Wassef is a digital reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined PIX11 News in 2022. See more of her work here.
Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
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