{"id":196069,"date":"2026-04-13T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:26:07","slug":"protesters-arrested-at-schumer-gillibrand-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196069\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters arrested at Schumer, Gillibrand offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration Monday calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of thousands of U.S. bombs to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, the crowd of hundreds initially attempted to stage a sit-in inside the Manhattan offices of the two Democratic lawmakers they accused of abetting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-war-hezbollah-negotiations-394f8bdaee36bab82ab3ebc713221302\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s intensifying attacks in Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.-Israeli war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After demonstrators were blocked by security from entering the building, they stopped traffic outside, chanting \u201cfund people, not bombs\u201d as they were arrested and loaded onto three buses.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 90 people taken into custody were whistleblower\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/569631f2b11c400cac05a29e0853624b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea Manning<\/a>, actor Hari Nef and New York City Council Member Alexa Avil\u00e9s, according to a JVP spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration focused on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/press-releases\/news-sanders-files-joint-resolutions-of-disapproval-to-block-nearly-660-million-in-bomb-sales-to-israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set of resolutions<\/a>\u00a0introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders that could block the sale of more than $600 million in bombs to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Similar measures previously introduced by Sanders, an independent from Vermont, have failed. But the most recent effort this past summer drew support from more than half of Senate Democrats amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mideast-wars-gaza-famine-israel-warning-d14ca629a68f7bdefe9c2fcc67d62224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread hunger and suffering in Gaza<\/a>. Schumer and Gillibrand were not among them.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters on Monday said Israel\u2019s air and ground offensive in southern Lebanon, along with the larger U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, added to the urgency of the vote, which is expected later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the moment when Schumer and Gillibrand must listen to their constituents,\u201d said Sonya Meyerson-Knox, the communications director with Jewish Voice for Peace. \u201cThe majority of Americans and New Yorkers want a resolution to what the Israeli government is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries to Schumer and Gillibrand were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration Monday calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Sen.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117,109,106,116,118,257,858,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-196069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-national-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-central-ny","14":"tag-congress","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-new-york-state","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","23":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}