A whole lot of protesters from an anti-Zionist Jewish group shut down the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, snarling metropolis visitors for hours.
The demonstration, organized by the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace, which favors a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas warfare, started round 2 p.m., with a big Police Division contingent on the scene.
Drivers sat bumper to bumper for not less than an hour because the protesters blocked off the Manhattan entrance to the bridge, which connects Canal Avenue in Decrease Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn. The police diverted autos from the realm as protesters hung a pro-Palestinian banner from the bridge over the East River.
By 3 p.m., the demonstrators have been sitting in the midst of the doorway ramp underneath the grand arch and colonnade close to Canal Avenue and the Bowery. Some waved Palestinian flags as they pumped their fists and chanted, “Let Gaza dwell.” One particular person scaled the arch’s stone facade and hung a Palestinian flag.
“We wanted to proceed to lift our voices and proceed to talk out as a result of there’s hundreds of Palestinians which are underneath the rubble proper now,” Jay Saper, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, mentioned throughout the demonstration.
The protest was peaceable, and the bridge reopened round 5:30 p.m. The police didn’t instantly say if anybody was arrested.
