Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters outside of New York Stock Exchange

By America-Today   OCT 16, 2024

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.