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NYPD makes arrests as anti-Israel protesters hold sit-in at Trump Tower

The gathering was organised by the Jewish Voice for Peace group

March 14, 2025 09:52
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Demonstrators from the human rights organization Jewish Voice for Peace are detained by NYPD officers as they hold a civil disobedience action inside Trump Tower in New York on March 13, 2025. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

ByVita Fellig, Jewish News Syndicate

1 min read

The New York City Police Department told JNS that it arrested multiple people and that it is addressing an ongoing matter, as protesters staged a sit-in at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon.

Around 100 protesters advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian agitator who is in federal custody and facing deportation for, the Trump administration says, supporting Hamas , the New York Post reported.

The anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace organized the gathering, which included people wearing red T-shirts stating “Jews say stop arming Israel,” according to footage that the Post published.

The protest came after an initial federal court hearing on Wednesday, in which Jesse Furman, a US district judge in Manhattan, determined that the Trump administration cannot yet deport Khalil.