Hundreds of diverse protesters called on Israel for a ceasefire and western powers to stop funding for the conflict.
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They carried signs and flags—some for their own native countries and many others for Palestine. Many donned keffiyehs, or Arabic scarfs, over their heads and faces. Within Our Lifetime Head Organizer Nerdeen Kiswani, a young Palestinian woman who was born and raised in Bay Ridge, and others got up on top of a U-Haul truck to speak to the massive crowd.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with the Israel, Palestine divide. This has everything to do with terrorists. I think that’s really important for the community to understand,” said Sable. “For sure there’s issues between Israel and Palestine, and I’m a believer in a two state solution, but this is about Hamas terrorists. Like they did in Southern Israel, the terrorists do the same in Africa. They behead them, they mutilate them, they take hostages. It’s the same people.
Another protester who identified himself as Todd P., held a sign saying “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” and said that while he found Hamas’ actions to be “abhorrent,” he found the Israeli response “unacceptable.” He adds that opposing the Israeli occupation is a “radical position,” one he’s familiar with as a gay man.
“What these politicians do not seem to understand is that if you are someone listening to their rhetoric and you hear in their words—that Palestinian life does not deserve the same anguish, the same protection, the same dignity as any other person’s life and that life can be taken in the name of self defense, or a right to defend oneself—it means that those same principles could be applied here at home.
For others like U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, that means creating two independent states for Palestine and Israel to coexist.
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