More than 200 Jewish anti-Israel protesters arrested after storming New York Stock Exchange
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At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.
Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.
A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.
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Good for them and fuck the New York Post.
You can join JFVP for as little as $18 a year.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/joinjvp/
Fucking antisemites smh my head
Can I say as a JVFP member that this sort of sarcasm is really not helpful to us? Even when it’s sarcastic, it still plays into the idea that if you’re Jewish you support/should support Israel.
One of the things we’re trying to do is work against that stereotype to show that wanting to end genocide has nothing to do with one’s ethnicity.
Even if my intent is that I’m explicitly mocking that idea for being bullshit?
Yes. It should not be brought up at all. There are plenty of other ways to respond to this action.
As an example in a similar situation, I’m hoping you wouldn’t say of a similarly protesting Palestinian group that you guess they’re all terrorists. Even in sarcasm.
It’s not productive. It doesn’t convince any actual person who would say that in earnest that they’re wrong. What they’ll do, if anything, is say “yes, but seriously.”
On top of that, Israel wants people to think Jew = Israeli. Just putting that grain of thought in people’s heads can result in bad things over time.
So there are better responses. Even if you want to express this specific sentiment in a sardonic way. “Watch Israel call this antisemitism” would be one way to go.
I hope that makes sense.
That’s fair. I think the example doesn’t fully fix it though. I’ll come up with something that might even be considered funny (by someone, I’m sure) eventually
guess this one needed the /s homie. Oh well i gotchoo
Oh I just assumed it was because of the “smh my head” part.
Fake democracy
I prefer the term managed democracy.
Ah yes, managed democracy! Every citizen of Super America enjoys the freedom to make the right choice.
Eh, they disrupted a private business. They were absolutely trespassing. They knew they were trespassing. Forcing an arrest here is part of the civil disobedience and creating this headline.
But someone told me they are sending weapons to Israel for Jewish voters.
Demographic groups aren’t monolithic, for what it’s worth. There is definitely a large pro-Israel contingent of Jewish Americans, too. Not that they deserve to be pandered to, but just that no one is able to represent an entire demographic.
Most Jews are Zionists.
Source? That’s definitely not true for the younger jews and I think there’s more of us now
Who elected you to speak on behalf of Jews?
If you browse a news aggregator site, you’ll notice how few of the headlines provide any indication the protesters were Jewish rather than just “anti-Israel” or “pro-Palestine”. While the latter is a more precise descriptor of their organizing cause, the former is also a very important aspect for this protest. It’s just not in line with the narrative the corporate news organizations have been cultivating.