{"id":50262,"date":"2026-04-14T07:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50262"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:41:52","slug":"around-90-detained-in-new-york-city-protest-over-us-arms-sales-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50262","title":{"rendered":"Around 90 detained in New York City protest over US arms sales to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking of arms sales to Israel and an end to US military support for its ally.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators included the anti-war group Jewish Voice for Peace, which said around 90 people were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Among those detained was whistleblower Chelsea Manning, a former US Army soldier and WikiLeaks source.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fo0kWSEcfY\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--youtube  \"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The New York City Police Department said there were \u201cmultiple\u201d arrests but did not provide a number.<\/p>\n<p>Clips from the protests showed a crowd gathering near the offices of US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleague, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters chanted slogans like \u201cstop the bombs\u201d, \u201cend the killings\u201d, and \u201cfree Palestine\u201d while expressing opposition to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Israel\u2019s attacks in Lebanon and Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters also chanted \u201clet Gaza live\u201d, \u201clet Iran live\u201d and \u201clet Lebanon live\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VC55w-N1gZI\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--youtube  \"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The US and Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1976839\">attacked Iran<\/a> on February 28. Iran responded with its own strikes on Israel and Gulf states that host US bases. US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed thousands and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1988561\">displaced millions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has cracked down on protests by attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1906653\">deport foreign students<\/a>, threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1908798\">freeze funding<\/a> for universities where protests were held and ordering the screening of immigrants\u2019 online comments. The crackdown has faced judicial obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>New York City was at the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1829349\">pro-Palestinian protests<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1970098\">military support<\/a> for Israel has faced particular scrutiny from rights groups during Israel\u2019s war on Gaza that killed tens of thousands, caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1946555\">starvation<\/a>, internally displaced Gaza\u2019s entire population and led to assessments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1957790\">genocide<\/a> from scholars and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1942547\">United Nations inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1991624\/around-90-detained-in-new-york-city-protest-over-us-arms-sales-to-israel\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking of arms sales to Israel and an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}