Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (pictured in a gray baseball cap) was arrested after he led a blockade of traffic in front of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Park Slops home on Friday, Oct. 13.
Photo courtesy of Jewish Voices for Peace
As a humanitarian crisis was unfolding in the Gaza Strip nearly a week after Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,300 Israelis during brutal and sustained attacks attack on Oct. 7, Astoria Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani was among the nearly 60 Jewish New Yorkers who were arrested Friday night for blocking traffic outside of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn.
More than a 1,000 activists marched to Grand Army Plaza chanting “Never again is now,” and “Never again means never again for everyone,” before staging a sit-in blocking traffic beseeching Schumer to call for a ceasefire as he leads a congressional delegation to Israel over the weekend.
Mamdani joined Brooklyn Assemby Member Marcela Mitaynes, who was also arrested, to rally with activists with Jewish Voice for Peace, which includes rabbis and descendants of Holocaust survivors, who held a banner reading “Jews Say Stop the Genocide of Palestinians” and blocked the entrance the the Democratic leader’s street.
Schumer and his bipartisan delegation is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu, President Isaac Herzog, and opposition leader Benny Gantz who joined a wartime unity government as Israel imposed a complete siege cutting electricity, water and food to the more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, more than 50% of them children.
The protestors outside Schumer’s home shared a sense of urgency after Israel ordered more than a million Palestinians to leave the northern half of the Gaza Strip while Hamas gunmen blocked at least two of the United Nations designated corridors to the south. As Israeli tanks amassed along the border with Gaza and more than 360,000 reservists were called up…
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