A whole lot of protesters from an anti-Zionist Jewish group shut down the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, snarling metropolis site visitors for hours.
The demonstration, organized by the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace, which favors a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas struggle, started round 2 p.m., with a big Police Division contingent on the scene.
Drivers sat bumper to bumper for not less than an hour because the protesters blocked off the Manhattan entrance to the bridge, which connects Canal Road in Decrease Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn. The police diverted autos from the world as protesters hung a pro-Palestinian banner from the bridge over the East River.
By 3 p.m., the demonstrators had been sitting in the course of the doorway ramp underneath the grand arch and colonnade close to Canal Road and the Bowery. Some waved Palestinian flags as they pumped their fists and chanted, “Let Gaza live.” One particular person scaled the arch’s stone facade and hung a Palestinian flag.
“We needed to continue to raise our voices and continue to speak out because there’s thousands of Palestinians that are under the rubble right now,” Jay Saper, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, mentioned through the demonstration.
The protest was peaceable, and the bridge reopened round 5:30 p.m. The police didn’t instantly say if anybody was arrested.
