Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including both Muslims and Jews, gather Wednesday near the U.S. Capitol in Washington to demand peace and the end of the siege of the Gaza Strip. U.S. Capitol Police arrested people who were protesting inside the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building to demand that Congress pass a cease-fire resolution in the Israel-Gaza war amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis.
The arrests occurred after demonstrators, including American Jews and allies worried about Palestinians in Gaza, rallied on the National Mall. Protesters held a banner with red writing that said “Our blood is the same color,” waved Palestinian flags, and raised posters that read “My grief is not your weapon,” “Never again for anyone,” and “Zionism is racism.
Inside the House building, the protesters wore black shirts that said “Not in our name” on the front and “Jews say cease fire now” on the back, as they sang and cheered over police warnings to disperse. The crowd inside Cannon included 400 American Jews and 25 rabbis who are against Israeli occupation and are demanding that Congress pass a cease-fire resolution, said Sonya Meyerson-Knox, a spokeswoman for Jewish Voice for Peace, a national Jewish anti-Zionist organization.
In the 10 days following Hamas’s attack, the Crowd Counting Consortium, an academic project tracking and sharing data on protests across the United States,more than 400 U.S. vigils, rallies and protests in response to the war. Roughly 270 of those events were focused on backing Israel, while nearly 200 were in support of Palestinians.this week Jewish protesters have been arrested while demanding a cease-fire.
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