Protestors for Palestine are blocking the Manhattan Bridge pic.twitter.com/0WIMWInmFw
— Liam Quigley (@_elkue) January 8, 2024
Previously: Protesters Demanding Gaza Ceasefire Block Traffic at 3 NYC Bridges
Surprise, surprise.
We told you that any “pro-Palestine” protest that blocks roads is being organized by Jews to make people hate pro-Palestine protesters.
There is a lot of data on this. No matter what your agenda is, if you block roads, people will support your enemies.
A normal person sees “pro-Palestinian” protesters blocking a road and will automatically start feeling like Israel is right.
Mass anti-Israel protests which stopped traffic out of Manhattan Monday were secretly coordinated by radicals — and are a dramatic escalation of their tactics, experts tell The Post.
At least six radical anti-Israel groups were behind the rush-hour protests which stranded commuters on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges and the Holland Tunnel.
The groups, which include the Democratic Socialists of America whose members include squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, co-ordinated their actions then blasted their social media accounts with glossy films reveling in the misery they brought.
They also deployed the Hollywood star power of Susan Sarandon, the actress who previously had to apologize for antisemitic comments at a rally in Manhattan.
Justin Finkelstein, analyst with Center on Extremism at the Anti Defamation League, said it was evidence of secret backchannels between the groups and told The Post: “I this is the most disruptive that I’ve seen.
“It’s slowing down daily movement of New Yorkers and making it impossible not to notice them. I think that is their goal. They think these direct actions raise awareness of the Palestinian cause.”
And he warned more attempts to interrupt ordinary people’s lives are on the way and said: “Anything that gets them visibility is something they might consider.”
The six groups know to have taken part in what they called “an autonomous collective” were Palestinian Youth Movement; Democratic Socialists of America, New York branch; Writers Against War On Gaza; Jewish Voice for Peace; Al-Awda; and Critical Resistance.
Between them they boast ties not just to AOC and Sarandon, but to “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner, elite colleges including Yale, Brown and UCLA — and have received funding from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, a Rockefeller family foundation and the charitable arm of investment company Charles Schwab.
The groups jointly boasted that blocking traffic out of Manhattan across the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges and the Holland Tunnel would create similar conditions to life in the Gaza Strip.
What?
NYPD and Port Authority cops arrested 334 protesters, almost all of whom had concealed their identities with masks and some of traditional Palestinian keffiyehs.
Very convenient…
Some encased their hands in concrete-filled tires to make officers’ jobs even more difficult.
NYPD uses power tools to break free Palestine protesters blocking the Williamsburg bridge. The activists pvc piped themselves together and put that in cement tires to delay being arrested pic.twitter.com/KHEGO0Pomj
— Elad Eliahu (@elaadeliahu) January 8, 2024
Jewish Voice for Peace, founded in 1996, which describes itself as “the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world”, posted photos of the protest online.
It boasts feted “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner among its supporters — although he was not present at the protests.
Tony Kushner
When reached for comment Monday, Kushner declined to comment, although he has publicly stated that he does not support boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
JVP claims more than 300,000 supporters, has 1 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, and maintains chapters on many U.S. college campuses. Its Columbia University chapter was suspended in November for allegedly violating university policies on holding campus events.
After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Chicago-based Rabbi Brant Rosen, co-founder of JVP’s Rabbinical Council, said he grieved for fellow Jews who were killed, yet maintained solidarity with Palestinians.
The Anti-Defamation League has called JVP as “a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism.”
In its 2021 federal tax returns, JVP reported revenue of nearly $2.9 million; it says the vast bulk of its income is from individual contributions. Since 2014 it has received funding from among others the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, the Charles Schwab Foundation and the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation.
It’s standard.
Jews will claim to be your friends to try to make you look bad.
It’s all very standard.