Video: Mass Protest As Netanyahu Arrives For UN Address

●25 Arrested For Blocking Netanyahu’s Motorcade

 

Police in New York arrested more than two dozen Palestinian and Jewish activities and allies on Thursday after blocking the planned route of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade ahead of the right-wing leader’s United Nations General Assembly speech.

25 people, including the actor Rowan Blanchard, were arrested by New York police outside United Nations headquarters in midtown Manhattan, according to Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which co-organized the protest.

 

“As Jewish New Yorkers we vehemently condemn Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assault on Lebanon and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” explained JVP’s Jay Saper.

“We will continue to raise our voices in dissent until the United States government stops arming Israel and Palestinians are able to live with the full freedom and dignity they deserve.”

The protest and Netanyahu’s New York visit came as Israeli forces continued the relentless assault on Gaza for which Israel is being tried for genocide at the International Court of Justice. According to Palestinian and international officials, more than 147,000 Gazans have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces since October 7, when Hamas led the deadliest attack on Israel since the country’s founding in 1948.

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Israel has also ramped up attacks on Lebanon in response to rockets launched from that country by the political and paramilitary group Hezbollah. Last week, a two-day bombing spree targeting Hezbollah communications devices that also killed civilians, including children, was attributed to Israel. Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have killed hundreds of civilians and wounded thousands more.

“Our world leaders have done nothing to stop Netanyahu and his genocidal administration from murdering over 15,000 children and several times more adults,” said Munir Marwan of protest co-organizer Palestinian Youth Movement. “As he plans to escalate the slaughter, we must be the ones to stop him.”

Several world leaders condemned Israel’s aggression during their U.N. speeches this week.

“Gaza is one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, and it is now dangerously spilling over into Lebanon,” leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday.

Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa—which is leading the ICJ genocide lawsuit against Israel—said that “we will not sit silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated against others.”

 

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