{"id":66354,"date":"2026-04-14T06:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:50:01","slug":"dozens-arrested-as-protesters-demand-schumer-and-gillibrand-block-sale-of-bombs-to-israel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66354\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens arrested as protesters demand Schumer and Gillibrand block sale of bombs to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 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 class=\"text | article-text\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-war-hezbollah-negotiations-394f8bdaee36bab82ab3ebc713221302\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s intensifying attacks in Lebanon<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.-Israeli war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">Among the 90 people taken into custody were whistleblower <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 class=\"text | article-text\">The demonstration focused on a <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> introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders that could block the sale of more than $600 million in bombs to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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 <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 class=\"text | article-text\">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 class=\"text | article-text\">\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 class=\"text | article-text\">Inquiries to Schumer and Gillibrand were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">(Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration Monday calling on Senate Democratic leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16267,7210,24905,9046,24908,37,13827,24907,5840,42,2405,81,2916,24906,24904,11488,3702,24903],"class_list":{"0":"post-66354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-bombs","10":"tag-chuck","11":"tag-demonstration","12":"tag-gillibrand","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-jewish","15":"tag-kirsten","16":"tag-new","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-peace","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-protest","21":"tag-schumer","22":"tag-sen","23":"tag-voices","24":"tag-wcax","25":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116401735120166595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}