Dozens of pro-Palestine protesters arrested outside of Biden interview

Approximately 50 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested Monday at NBC headquarters in New York City after protesting President Biden’s appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” according to reports. Protest group “Jewish Voice for Peace”.

The group announced that several hundred members had taken over the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Center, where the show was filmed. The photo shows a demonstrator wearing a black shirt with the words “ceasefire now” written next to a sign calling for a ceasefire. One of the signs reads, “From Jews to Biden: Stop Arming Genocide.”

“President Biden’s deadly foreign policy has promoted arms sales to Israel, ignored the World Court’s ruling that Israel commits genocide, defunded UNRWA, and renewed three UN ceasefires. vetoed the resolution,” the group said. I wrote to Xformerly Twitter.

“The president needs to start responding to the American people, not the far-right Israeli government that indiscriminately bombs the people of the Gaza Strip and destroys 70% of its infrastructure, including hospitals, universities, power grids and electrical grids,” the group continued. Ta.

Pressure is mounting on President Biden to support a full ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, which he has so far refused. Biden instead sought a short-term cessation of the conflict. He said on Monday that he hoped the two countries could agree on a six-week pause by this week.

Many progressive Democrats oppose Biden over the conflict, and a coalition of pro-Palestinian voters is expected to hold protests in Tuesday’s Michigan primary.

Moderate Democrats also question the amount of military aid to Israel during the ground invasion of Gaza.

More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the conflict, according to Gaza’s health ministry, and the United Nations says nearly all of the region’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and in need of food.

The Biden administration has put pressure on Israel to scale back its military operations, but it has had little effect. President Biden has particularly opposed an expected ground invasion of Rafah, one of the last remaining settlements in southern Gaza and home to an estimated 1.4 million people.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the invasion of Rafah “must take place.”