Hundreds of Anti-Israel Agitators Swarm Chuck Schumer’s House, Police Move In and Make Mass Arrests

At least 100 anti-Israel protesters — many of them Jewish — were arrested outside of the New York City home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday night.

On the second night of Passover, hundreds if not thousands of self-identified Jews converged on Schumer’s Brooklyn neighborhood for a protest event that they called “Seder in the Streets,” the New York Post reported.

Protesters at Grand Army Plaza demanded the U.S. stop offering military aid to Israel as the country fights the radical Islamic terror group Hamas for a seventh consecutive month in response to the horrifying Gaza-based terror attacks that killed over 1,200 Israelis last October.

According to numerous clips circulating on the social media platform X, the organized protest began around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Demonstrators wore shirts that read “CEASEFIRE NOW” while some held signs that read “STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE.”

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A banner on the ground at the event also read, “JEWS SAY STOP ARMING ISREAL – NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE.”

Eventually, the protesters began blocking traffic, the Post reported, leading police to move in and intervene.

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A video posted online showed that as officers began to make arrests, a chant of “Ceasefire now!” broke out.

Others were recorded shouting, “Let Gaza live!”

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As of early Wednesday, the NYPD had not said exactly how many arrests were made, but the Post reported at least 100 people were taken into custody.

Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, the group that reportedly planned the protest of Schumer’s home, said in a lengthy thread on X that the demonstration was a response to the Senate’s passage of a $95 billion foreign aid package earlier in the day.

Of the funds appropriated for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, $26 billion in total will go to help the Israeli military and Palestinians in Gaza, CNN reported. In total about $17 billion will go to Israel.

President Joe Biden vowed to sign the bill — which was a combination of bills that had passed in the House last Saturday — on Wednesday morning.

Biden said in a statement, “This critical legislation will make our nation and world more secure as we support our friends who are defending themselves against terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin.”


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