Photo: Yuki Iwamura/APNYPD makes arrests at Fox News headquarters as protests spread in Gaza
Demonstrators, supporters of a ceasefire are also detained outside an investment company accused of helping to supply weapons to Israel
There were new protests across the US on Friday morning demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with police clearing crowds and arresting demonstrators in various locations.
Dozens arrested in San Francisco after a ceasefire protest closed the Bay Bridge.Read more
Such demonstrations come as recent opinion polls show public support for Israel is falling in the US, while Hamas Gaza authorities said on Friday that more than 12 people have been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas in October. 000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, mostly women and children.
New York police on Friday arrested pro-Palestinian supporters who seized the headquarters of News Corp, the media company that owns the channel Fox News, as well as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, according to videos posted on social media.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered in the News Corp lobby, chanting «Shame» and » Fox News…you can’t hide.” Your lies cover up genocide.”
BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian activists occupy the headquarters of News Corp, the media conglomerate that owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
Activists threw “blood money” on the floor, symbolizing the conglomerate’s propaganda for Israeli genocide. . pic.twitter.com/6NOsU0OhPR
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) November 17, 2023
Ceasefire demonstrators were alsowere arrested Friday in New York after blocking the entrance to the headquarters of BNY Mellon, a corporate investment firm that they say has stakes in arms supplies to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Meanwhile, students at Columbia University and New York University (NYU) were scheduled to stage a sit-in at an unnamed bank that finances NYU's Tel Aviv campuses.
Both universities have campus additions to Israel, which student organizers say are built on the site of former Palestinian villages.
The demonstration is meant to “highlight the role of Columbia and NYU in legitimizing Israeli apartheid» and the «vast financial infrastructure… used to finance real estate projects at home and settler colonial expansion abroad,» the student organization said in a press release.
< p class="dcr-1kas69x">More protests are expected in New York, Chicago and other major US cities on Friday and over the weekend.
The latest demonstration came after 200 people in San Francisco blocked part of a bridge across the bay to protest and call for a ceasefire. At least 50 people were arrested after demonstrators formed a human chain between vehicles.
And at least 90 protesters were injured during Thursday's demonstration in Washington on Capitol Hill. Organizers of the Truce Now coalition said dozens of protesters were injured after police violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration.
Demonstrations against Israeli airstrikes and military operations in Gaza continue across the country , tens of thousands of participants take part in them.
The latest actions come against the backdrop of declining public support for Israel in the United States in the past. This was reported by Reuters with reference to a public opinion poll.
According to a Reuters/Ispos poll, a majority of Americans believe that Israel should declare a ceasefire. About 68% of respondents said they agreed that “Israel should declare a ceasefire and try to negotiate.”
A majority of Democratic voters also believe Israel's overwhelming response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, in which Islamist extremists killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel and took hostages back to the Gaza Strip, is «too strong,» according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour poll /Marist.
And 56% of Democrats said Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have been too extensive, up 21 points from a similar poll conducted last month.
People of color in the United States, as well as people under the age of 45, also believe Israel's response has been disproportionate, pointing to generational and racial divides around support for Israel.
Meanwhile, 52% of Republicans thought Israel's response was «about right,» an increase from last month's poll, when more Republicans then thought Israel's response was «too little.»
< p class="dcr-1kas69x">Meanwhile, 52% of Republicans considered Israel's response to be «about right.»
Overall, most respondents say they are more sympathetic to Israelis than Palestinians.
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