At noon on Tuesday, 24 people were arrested in Midtown during a protest against the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza. Over 100 people had gathered for the event, organized by professor and author Norman Finkelstein, who had posted a message to his website stating that if 100 people committed to an act civil disobedience, it would take place at the Israeli mission at the UN in New York City on Tuesday... Norman Finkelstein said that what led him to organize the event was frustration—sitting in front of the computer 20 days, 21 days, and not feeling I’m doing enough, not rising to the occasion, not commensurate with the magnitude of the horror in Gaza. So I just decided on the spur of the moment, let’s do something... tabletmag/scroll/180812/24-arrested-in-protest-against-israels-gaza-campaign
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:31:05 +0000
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