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.
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.
Fake democracy
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.
Source? That’s definitely not true for the younger jews and I think there’s more of us now
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?
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.
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
And their organization against progressive causes wasn’t limited to the national level either, they interfered in LOCAL elections too.
