2023-10-25 23:49:00
A group of Jewish students took shelter in a library at Cooper Union University in Manhattan, New York, while protesters chanted, “Free Palestine“, outside. In the video, the Jewish students can be seen talking to each other, while other students shout and knock on the door. According to the New York police, the university students were safely escorted out of the library .
Jewish students at Cooper Union College have been locked inside the library for their own safety as a mob of anti Israeli protesters block the doors.
Where are the police?!!!pic.twitter.com/Uv4CFRqGzm
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 25, 2023
The American metropolis has been the scene of protests in support of the Palestinian people since the surprise attack by the terrorist group Hamas, on October 7, which killed 1,400 Israelis. On the 13th, thousands of protesters, including Jews, took to the streets to denounce the Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip.
The protesters, who called for an end to the “Israeli occupation” and the “liberation” of the Palestinian territories, occupied several blocks of a city that brings together religions and nationalities from all over the world. In the Brooklyn neighborhood, around a hundred protesters were detained while blocking traffic, after demonstrating in front of the residence of Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who planned to travel with a delegation of congressmen to Israel.
After more than two hours shouting slogans such as “Jews say enough about the genocide of Palestinians”, in favor of a “Free Palestine” or “Not in my name” in front of the senator’s house, where they asked him to intervene to obtain a ceasefire and save lives, the protesters moved to a nearby road, where they sat on the ground and formed a chain, which blocked traffic.
Police reinforcements arrived at the scene after the students refused to stand up, and ended up taking the detainees, who ranged in age from 20 to 85, including two New York state elected officials, rabbis and descendants of Holocaust survivors, on buses. .
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