{"id":196224,"date":"2026-04-14T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:37:12","slug":"dozens-arrested-in-new-york-as-protesters-demand-us-blocks-sale-of-bombs-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196224\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens arrested in New York as protesters demand US blocks sale of bombs to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration on Monday calling on Senate Democratic leader <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/chuck-schumer?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of thousands of US bombs to Israel.Led by the anti-war 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 Israel\u2019s intensifying attacks in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lebanon?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a> and the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 on to three buses.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Among the 90 people taken into custody were whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, actor Hari Nef and New York City Council Member Alexa Aviles, according to a JVP spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration focused on a set of resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders that could block the sale of more than US$600 million in bombs to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Similar measures previously introduced by Sanders, an independent from Vermont, have failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration on Monday calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[584,5057,78216,2065,155,78217,14670,60,32774,6827,33408,75,9,24,55,54,56,855,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-196224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-alexa-aviles","9":"tag-bernie-sanders","10":"tag-chelsea-manning","11":"tag-chuck-schumer","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-hari-nef","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-jewish-voice-for-peace","17":"tag-kirsten-gillibrand","18":"tag-lebanon","19":"tag-manhattan","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","23":"tag-new-york-city-news","24":"tag-ny","25":"tag-senate","26":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196224","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=196224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}