Dozens of demonstrators calling for an end to US aid for Israel were arrested outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home on Friday night, according to police sources.
The protests come on a day of city-wide “day of jihad” protests against Israel’s military response in Gaza following Hamas’ unprecedented attacks.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Grand Army Plaza for the rally, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace — a self-described anti-Zionist activist group — before marching a few blocks to the senator’s Park Slope residence and blocking the street.
“Not in our name,” protesters chanted outside, videos shared on social media show.
They held a large banner that read, “Jews say stop genocide against Palestinians” in front of his building’s door with several police officers standing nearby.
Others held signs that read “Zionism is terrorism” and “End Israeli apartheid.”
Police were seen escorting dozens of handcuffed detainees onto MTA buses and driving away.
According to Jewish Voice for Peace, those arrested included “rabbis, politicians, scholars, and descendants of holocaust survivors — ages 20 to 80,” the organization tweeted.
“We demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Never again is today,” they said.
New York State Assembly members Zohran Kwame Mamdani, of District 36, and Marcela Mitaynes, of District 51, were among those present at the rally, according to the group.
Schumer, the highest elected Jewish official in the US, is departing for Israel this weekend, where he will lead fellow senators will show support for the country’s government, his office announced earlier on Friday.
He and the delegation will meet with Israel’s new emergency government, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where they will discuss what resources the US can provide in its fight against Hamas, a spokesperson for the senator told The Post.
Earlier Friday In Manhattan, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from Baruch College in Midtown through Times Square to United Nations Headquarters on East 45th Street, waving flags and holding signs demanding an end to the war.
An NYPD spokesperson said a total tally on the number of arrests from the demonstrations would not be available until Saturday.
In March, more than 200 protesters demanding an end for all US military funding to Israel were arrested outside of Schumer’s home.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which also organized that protest, said at the time it was protesting Schumer’s support for mob violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians.