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Dozens Arrested in Protest at Schumer and Gillibrand’s New York City Offices

The demonstration highlights grassroots pressure on Democratic leaders following their votes rejecting two Sanders resolutions to ban weapons sales to Israel.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in the lobby of a Midtown Manhattan building that houses the offices of the two US Democratic Senators from New York on August 1, 2025, in New York City.
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New York City Council member Tiffany Cuban, second from the left, first row, joins people protesting with Jewish Voices for Peace occupying the lobby to U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer Office In Manhattan Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News)
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Overview

  • Jewish Voice for Peace activists staged a sit-in in the senators’ lobby to demand a Gaza ceasefire and safe humanitarian aid corridors
  • NYPD officers cleared the building entrance and arrested dozens of participants, including Assembly Member Claire Valdez, Councilor Tiffany Cabán and actor Sara Ramirez
  • Protesters carried signs reading “Let Aid in Now” and “Jews to Schumer: Stop Starving Gaza,” and chanted “Free, free Palestine, stop the genocide”
  • Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have acknowledged the humanitarian crisis in Gaza but have not reversed their votes against Sanders’s arms-ban resolutions
  • U.N. agencies warn one in three Gazans faces severe hunger, increasing pressure on Democratic lawmakers to address the mounting humanitarian emergency