The human rights organisation Jewish Voice for Peace says that 500 people were arrested at their protest against “Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians” in Washington DC on Wednesday.
The protestors sat on the floor of the lobby of the US Congress building, unfurling a large banner that said ceasefire as they were surrounded by police.
“We shut down Congress to draw mass attention to the US complicity in Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians,” the group said.
The US Capitol Police said it cleared the rotunda, around one hour ago, and that it is still processing arrests.
Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports from Washington, DC.
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USA so called freedom of expression 😏
Ther are good man.
Thank God that people are speaking up for the innocent women and children against the blood machine.
we love jew we anti zionism
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WOW. This is really remarkable.
They r being arrested for WHAT
If
Hamas are terrorist because of Islamic faith,
Also
AIPAC
Who believe if Palestinian chased away Jesus Christ will come are terrorist,
No more Israel land grabber
Judaism is not Zionism
Wow
There is hope left in this world.
COME ON MAN PLEASE do america a favor DEPORT THEM ALL/ its amazing that the jan 6th people walked in and strolled around and now doing prison time for basicly the same thing
Support Palestinians 🇧🇩🖤🇵🇸
Retaliation must come after the bombardment on the hospital by Israel
الشراف الامه
May One God Almighty help us ameeeeeeeen lord our God please help us mercy on us we can’t see our bro and sis in humanity dying 💔 🙏 we have no one just you our lord.
You will never see such story on CNN , Fox News because the billionaires Israel want to commit genocide in the name of self defense
Thank u aljazeera
To bad. United States doesn’t want to call for peaceful resolution. A moderate President is Joe Biden. Not an progressive Dem . He never has been. He is Obama like and in agreement with whatever united states has bargained with Netyanyahu and far right politician group. Democracy Now has plenty of reports on far right influence on Israel concerning Gaza.
Respect. We love you from Holland 🇯🇴🇯🇴❤️❤️🇱🇺🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴❤️❤️❤️🇱🇺🇱🇺
Het zal niet meer heel lang duren en israël en Amerika zullen in de val lopen. Het gaat niet meer lang duurden en alle waarschijnlijkheid komt boven water.
Respect for brave sister and brother who stand for humanity
The western Catholic doesn’t like Muslim?
We knew jews is a cused nation by allah. But now we think some jews is good as humanitarian. Thank you, dear humanitarians.
Humanity prevails
this is a secret message to the world stating that the zionists are the ones who controle and rule over the west specialy the states ! you d reach this conclusion by comparing the way jewish protesters entered peacefuly the congress by being given acces to it , compared to trump supporters who had to point the guns at the cops to storm the congress or the BLM movement which has not been allowed to even come near the congress ! even if you saw some of them jews getting arrested , it means nothing since they wont even spend one single night in jail and rather get bailed out on the spot ! keep in mind that in the zionists religion which is not judaism ! the people of zion belive that only they should exist on earth for being gods chosen people and the rest of us which includes white people are meant either to be be their slaves or die ! the zionist order must be dealt with as soon as possible if we want to keep on living as all the races together that is !
God must be so disappointed in his children. You’d think by now, as smart as we think we are, we’d be able to attain Utopia.
МОЛОДЦЫ ТАК ДЕРЖАТЬ!
Why are they should be arrested??? These Jewish guys in the US are just fair! Thanks to them! Our hearts with Palestine!
Yes true Israel does not represent all jew or the religion. Even jews in Israel are not all war mongering occupiers supporting genocide. Its the pathologic evil occupatiin carrying on ethnic cleansing since decades to suppress freedom struggle and to steal more land.
Braincrippled .Traitors
WE’RE SO GLAD THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR THE PALESTINIAN’S 🙏🏽☑️🩷
Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress — and we won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance., They are good men and women. My heart goes with them
These are real Jewish.Peace upon to them.Israles zionist regime is radical as isis.
Thank you guys
❤❤❤❤
Palestine ❤❤ you will be free like us ❤❤
Great people! I am really positiv surprised❤ ❤
Netanyahu should be arrested not these brave citizens !
“Not in our name”
Exactly Zionism doesn’t actually represent true Judaism which is about peace and humanity
🇵🇸🤝✡️🇺🇳🙏🤲🙏💪⚒️🚩🎖🕊.
They shouldn’t get charged at all.
Hello there, read the Douay Rheims
Bible everyday for world peace.
End of the world is for
individual. God Bless.
Proverbs 14(DRB)
14:12. There is a way which
seemeth just to a man: but
the ends thereof lead to death.
They 0 J6 a apology!Same BS different party!!!
Where is the government for the people, of the people, by the people? The people are making their voices heard!
Yea,,,Right sure ,Sure, ,,,,,
Want this to end deport middle east conflict does NOT belong in United States This isn’t free speech this is conflicts.
Thanks to the Jewish community 👍
No one said we don’t have idiots lol murderers is the hamas speciality!
It was so disgusting watching Biden hug Netanyahu as if he was the victim. He totally ignored the Palestinians & went home. Where is the solution Biden?
Biden hugged Netanyahu & gave him 100 billion & aircraft carriers. Is that what the US solution looks like?
That’s 13 out of 535 members of Congress. You think they get kickbacks from the war machine or no?
So these people support rape and murder of thier own people. Wow their smart!!!
No, they try to Beautifying Jews state image that booming civilian targets like hospitals and churches in sad
middle east
Respect!
Those protestors, who had the courage to speak out against the crimes done in their religion’s name, theu are the real Jews. The Zionists aren’t real Jews, these protestors eho understand the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong are.
Now Youtube threaten to revoke my account. I really don’t care. There’s a reckoning coming, after that the world as y’all know it will be gone.
Thank you for your courage.. peace for eveeyone
Don’t fall for those ‘antisemitic’ accusations. Here we can see they even arrest JEWISH PEOPLE themselves for speaking their minds. It’s not about preaching against antisemitism, the government really silence anyone who doesn’t follow their agenda (which is money and oppression)
I think this whole Capitol protest is an attempted narrative shift. Of course stop the siege but none of these alleged protesters are shouting “Free Palestine” so they are changing the goal to only stopping this round of bombings. Stay focused on the true goal and do not allow other causes to muddy the waters. Free Palestine is the goal. Stay focused on the true issue!
❤ love u Jews around the world from Indonesia…yes We are brothers as human being…stop war cease fire and back to the table…two state solutionn…
Please End False “surviving the holocost” rhetoric … Open the public discussion on what exactly happened and why… You are cooking to many meals on the same fire…
Protesting right in the belly of the evil beast Washington DC. Much respect to these good folks they are the moral conscience of the world.
Gee, if they were Republicans, they would be arrested and put in jail for eternity. But then, our current government is terrified of President Trump, so they will try to do anything to stop him or anyone who appreciates him. They are crooked that way!
Zionist racist mafia attacks real Jewish people aren’t antisemitism but if we go against racist zionist mafia, we are a antisemitism
Very good! This is wonderful to.see and hear.
I hope that real Jews fight for the freedom of moslims like what the moslims did against hitler they understund it because their religion and what their ancestors have experienced is abused by the Zionists
respect from morocco
Isreal, USA, UK , India, France and some other countries are involved in Palestinian’s genocide
Stop the Genocide
And of course they’re going to be held for YEARS on “insurrection” charges, right? I mean, they “STORMED THE CAPITOL!!”, right…?
Remember, folks: the U.S. Capitol Police is the ONLY police force in the entire USA which is IMMUNE from Freedom of Information requests/inquiries. And they claim jurisdiction in all 50 states.
Thank u
U dont live in israel see what they go through Dont trust your enemies they have hated Jews since king davids time
Zionis telah membajak agama yahudi. Memalukan
Love these REAL Jews SO MUCH
I salute these brave protesters, they are humane people with a conscience
Smoke & Mirrors , Disinformation at its finest World wigs media .Paid off protesters be proud ❤Not one of these people know the true history of the region? 2000 yrs ago BC ?
This is not a religious war! Thanks for everyone standing for humanity ❤
All the jews know they have enough land and with the passage of time remaining palestinenian would leave the land that is why they try to be kind if they have not have enough land these jews would be stand against palestinians.
Israeli apartheid should end
Ceasefire ceasefire ceasefire stop killing babies 😢😢😢
The whole world need to be come Muslim there it will be peace ohh wait……….
Love and respect for Judaism ❤️💯
Humanity should prevail nd win
Wow am surprised by Jewish people they are humanitarian that feels good mashallah
Uneducated ,STUPIDOS , SUPPORTED HAMAS.
TIME FOR ISREAL TO GET PEACE FROM THE WORLD AND MIGRATING FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER FROM THERE HOMELAND.
400YRS IN EGYPT ISREAL SUFFERED
MOSES RESCUE THEM
JOSHUA LEAD THEM TO PROMISED LAND AND GOD HIMSELF PROMISED JOSHUA TO DESTROY ALL TRIBES IN THAT LAND THAT TIME ,CANAANITES , HITTITES, HIVITES , PERIZZITES,GIRGASHITES, AMORITES, JEBUSITES. DROVE THEM OUT AND ISREAL SETTLED IN LAND THAT TIME UPTO TODAY .
1000 YRS BC KING DAVID AND KING SOLOMON RULE ISREAL
AFTER 1000 YRS BCE VARIOUS EMPIRE RULE . BECAUSE SOME TIME ISREALITES SIN AND GOD COULD PURNISH THEM BY BEING RULED BY OTHER KINGDOMS.
NEO ASSYRIAN EMPIRE RULE ISREAL 8TH CENTURY . ISREALITES WHERE LEFT IN THERE TERRITORIES
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE 597 BCE TO 538 BCE RULE ISREAL AND THEY WERE TAKEN
PERSIAN EMPIRE NOW IS IRAN ,THAT TIME WAS KINGDOM OF PERSIAN ,HAD GREAT LEADER CRYUS THE GREAT 539 BCE -332BCE BROUGHT BACK ISREAL IN THERE LAND FROM BABYLON
GREEK EMPIRE RULED ISREAL BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT 334 BCE BUT LEFT ISREAL IN THERE LAND
ROMAN EMPIRE RULE 356 -323BCE ,THEN IN 140BCE RULING DYNASTY OF JUDEA IN POWER AND ROMAN SENATE HEROD THE GREAT
TIME OF JESUS CHRIST ROSE.
BUT STILL EMPIRE CONTINUES
BYZANTINE EMPIRE RULE 313 TO 636
ARAB RULE IN ANCIENT ISREAL 636 TO 1099
OTTOMAN EMPIRE WHICH FORMED PALASTINE
1517 TO 1917 THATS TIME MANY JEWS THE ISREALISTS WHERE CHASED AWAY FROM THERE HOME LANDS MOST SPREAD ALL OVER THE WORLD NO PLACE TO STAY . BECAUSE THERE HOMELAND ALOT WAS HAPPENING THAT TIME
1918 TO 1948 BRITISH RULE AND MADE ISREAL TO SETTLE BACK IN THERE HOMELAND AND IN THERE REAL ORIGIN.
WORLD LET ISREAL BE. WE SHALL STAND WITH THEM. TIME FOR THEM TO REST FROM CONQURERS AND ENEMIES WHO ALWAYS OCCUPY THERE LAND AND MAKE THEM WONDERERS.
Paid protesters, they are not jewish.
But people can burn the Quran in the name of free speech and protected by police