More than 200 Jewish anti-Israel protesters arrested after storming New York Stock Exchange

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.world – 451 points – 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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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.

It's less about Jewish voters and more about pro-Israel campaign dollars.

Folks just have no clue how powerful the pro-Israel lobby is here. Combined with the zionist Christians it's kind of a nightmare.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05

https://apnews.com/article/squad-aipac-progressives-congress-cori-bush-0de0a96929368db72145b033261415ca

And their organization against progressive causes wasn't limited to the national level either, they interfered in LOCAL elections too.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/20/major-pro-israel-group-donation-oregon-3rd-district-congress-primary-dexter-jayapal/

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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.

Oh no! Not a private business, whatever shall we do now?! Poor business has feelings too /s

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.

To be fair Germany has a right to tread lightly here

Given our history we should strive to do better in the face of atrocities, even more so. It really should not matter, that the state committing these crimes happens to be populated by many ancestors of people the Germans tried to exterminate. I would have thought our commitment to teaching about our historical failures would have taught that lesson to more of us. But apparently recognizing a genocide for what it is is hard still.

Germany and the west should send peace keepers to contains the israelis to enforce the two-state solution in a fair way. Anything short of that is just antihuman.

And ffs stop them from using incendiaries on civilians.

They are not treading lightly. They have developed a transactional relationship with the Israeli right, where they get to rebaptise arms sales, domestic islamophobia, and unconditional support for whatever the Israeli right does as a stance against antisemitism. They shamelessly suppress Israeli leftist positions and diaspora jewish leftist positions and call that a stance against antisemitism.

Germany needs to tread lightly indeed, but that can't be just a blank check to Apartheid Israel. They owe more than one debt, exactly as Namibia has called it out.

If anything, Germany must first establish a national policy of Germany as a safe haven for Jewish people everywhere. If they were serious about their historic debt to their former victims, there should be a right to aliyah to Germany. Get their own shit in order first, then lecture others.

Fuck Israel and the US. I recommend everyone to watch Democracy Now's piece on this

https://youtu.be/ztbvvcn0VNc?si=ZoxOgDAANqL4VJp7

Insane what our country is doing and has been repeatedly doing and still wants to do. If you somehow believe that the US is the "good guy" in any sort of circumstance you are completely and objectively incorrect.

You don't live in a democracy in the slightest.

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.

it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.

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