September 8, 2024

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“The occasions of the final 10 days have proven us that there isn’t a such factor as security for some except there’s security for everybody.”

Individuals held indicators as they rallied outdoors of the John F. Kennedy Federal Constructing in assist of six Jewish protesters who had been stopped contained in the hallway whereas making an attempt to get to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s workplace. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe

At the very least six Jewish protesters taking part in a Professional-Palestine rally outdoors Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Boston workplace had been arrested on Wednesday, The Boston Globe reported.

Contributors within the demonstration, organized by the group IfNotNow, had been calling for the senator to push for de-escalation within the warfare between Israel and Hamas and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Based on the Globe, those that had been arrested entered into the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Constructing and refused to go away in an try and stage a sit-in outdoors Warren’s workplace.

Movies posted by the group confirmed people being escorted out of the constructing.

Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein was considered one of a number of audio system on the rally outdoors of the constructing, in keeping with the Globe. She referred to as on Warren to work towards permitting humanitarian assist in Gaza and make sure the launch of the Israelis who had been taken hostage by Hamas.

“The occasions of the final 10 days have proven us that there isn’t a such factor as security for some except there’s security for everybody,” she mentioned, in keeping with the newspaper.

The rally outdoors Warren’s workplace was not the one pro-Palestine demonstrations within the space on Wednesday. Based on the Globe, about 200 folks participated in a “die-in” outdoors of Harvard Enterprise Faculty, protesting the Israeli authorities’s airstrikes and blockade of the Gaza Strip. 

Based on the Related Press, greater than 4,000 folks have been killed for the reason that warfare started on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants launched a brutal shock assault on Israelis.