"Let Gaza Live": 50 Jewish Peace Activists Arrested Protesting Sens. Schumer, Gillibrand for Vote to Keep Arming Israel

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

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Some 200 activists with Jewish Voice for Peace protested at the Manhattan offices of New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday to denounce their votes against halting arms shipments to Israel. JVP says 50 Jewish New Yorkers were arrested by police. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and Charina Nadura covered the action.

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0:00.0	Hi, Mimi Goodman. This is Democracy Now. We're standing outside the offices of New York
0:10.1	Senators Kristen Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer. Jewish Voice for Peace has shut down this office
0:18.7	building. A number of people are getting arrested.
0:22.2	Inside, others are about to be arrested.
0:25.3	Among them, New York State Assembly member Claire Valdez of Queens
0:29.7	and New York City Council member Tiffany Caban.
0:34.4	Also protesting are the actor Sarah Ramirez of Sex in the City and other TV shows,
0:42.3	as well as well over 100 people, Jews and their supporters, where T-shirts say stop arming Israel and
0:52.8	stop starving Gaza.
0:55.0	My name, not our God, go for God member of the 22nd District Council Member of the 22nd District of Queens.
1:17.6	Are you getting to rest me?
1:19.6	We're going to stay here until they take us out.
1:22.6	Why?
1:23.6	Because we have to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza right now.
1:28.7	It hasn't been two weeks, two months.
1:30.8	It has been far, far too long, and our government is funding this genocide.
1:37.0	What can you do as a New York City Council member?
1:39.8	Stand with my constituents who are demanding an end to the seat in Gaza, who are demanding aid to be like him to help to feed the folks who are starving in Gaza right now.
1:55.7	I'm here because it's unconscionable for anyone to stand by while a genocide is reprimed on innocent people.
2:03.6	We're seeing a human-made famine unfold in Gaza that we've been warning about for years and months now.
2:10.6	We need to let aid in as soon as possible. We need to stop funding a Gotham privilege toide in Gaza. The centers in New York State are complicit in that they do not stand up against it.
2:22.3	That's why I'm here.
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