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.

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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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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.

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Who elected you to speak on behalf of Jews?

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This survey shows a majority of American Jews are Zionists. The percentage of Zionists is much higher among Jews living in Israel. That gives you a solid majority for Zionism among Jews.

Mods won’t like this post and delete it, just like the one you answered to. They might even ban me.

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Source? That’s definitely not true for the younger jews and I think there’s more of us now

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There source, apparently, is a poll taken of American Jews. And not a poll they understood very well:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/21/u-s-jews-have-widely-differing-views-on-israel/

Along with the fact that most Israeli Jews want the country in which they live to exist, which… duh.

But, you know, America is the only country with Jews outside of Israel.

In fact, are there any countries besides those two?

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