{"id":225484,"date":"2026-09-25T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/netanyahus-speech-at-un-spurs-protests-in-new-york-city-let-gaza-live-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:06:17","slug":"netanyahus-speech-at-un-spurs-protests-in-new-york-city-let-gaza-live-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/netanyahus-speech-at-un-spurs-protests-in-new-york-city-let-gaza-live-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s speech at UN spurs protests in New York City: \u2018Let Gaza live\u2019 – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Susan Sarandon, whistleblower Chelsea Manning and comedian Caleb Hearon are detained by NYPD
More than 100 people were arrested outside the United Nations\u2019 headquarters in New York City on Thursday as Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the general assembly, a speech that also prompted dozens of UN delegates to walk out<\/a> in protest.
The protest outside the UN, one of several this week against the embattled Israeli prime minister, drew hundreds of Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese New Yorkers, among others, as well as several elected officials and candidates in the November election, and a number of celebrities.
Many wore shirts reading \u201cFund people not bombs\u201d and chanted slogans like \u201cLet Gaza live\u201d and \u201cthe whole world is watching.\u201d Official vehicles heading to the UN were diverted as protesters sat down in the middle of the street for more than an hour, unfurling banners that called to \u201cend the genocide\u201d and flying a kite reading \u201cFree Palestine\u201d \u2013 a reference to Israel\u2019s threat earlier this year that it would target Palestinian children<\/a> flying kites, organizers said.
A few hours later, an estimated few thousand people marched from nearby Bryant Park to the UN in protest of Netanyahu\u2019s visit to the city. Swathed in keffiyehs and carrying Palestinian flags, accompanied by a brass band and drummers, protesters held banners calling on UN member states to sanction Israel<\/a>, others with illustrations of Netanyahu\u2019s face.
\u201cThe US and Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> are using the UN as a bully pulpit to basically project their vision of the world, which is one based on brute force and international crimes of aggression and illegal forever wars,\u201d said Nas Issa of the Palestinian Youth Movement, which planned the afternoon protest. \u201cIt\u2019s incumbent on member states of the UN to challenge the immunity that America and Israel have enjoyed for decades, but particularly in the past three years since the start of the Gaza genocide.\u201d
On Wednesday, members of the Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s New York City chapter rallied at the city\u2019s John F Kennedy international airport in protest of weapons and explosive materials destined for the Israeli military being flown out of the airport on commercial aircraft<\/a>.
\u201cWhat we made clear today is that New Yorkers, including Jewish New Yorkers, do not want war criminals and the architects of genocide coming to our city,\u201d said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, which coordinated the first protest outside the UN. \u201cThis is something that we have been saying for years, especially over the last three years during which Israel has killed over 75,000 Palestinians in this genocide \u2013 and to be clear that is a severe undercount.\u201d
Protests have long been a staple of Netanyahu\u2019s appearances at the UN, but as Israel\u2019s political isolation<\/a> has deepened against the backdrop of its destruction of Gaza, the tone of this year\u2019s demonstrations reflect many Americans\u2019 growing anger at their own government\u2019s continued support to the Israeli military.
\u201cWe will not be silent as our government fully funds a genocide in Palestine<\/a>,\u201d said actor Hannah Einbinder, who has frequently spoken out for Palestinians\u2019 rights and who was arrested on Thursday, ahead of the protest. \u201cThis moment calls on each and every one of us to speak out and demand the US stop funding genocide.\u201d
She said she felt a moral obligation to join the protests \u201cas a Jew, as an American, and as a human being\u201d.
Fellow actors Susan Sarandon and Debra Winger, whistleblower Chelsea Manning and comedian Caleb Hearon were also among those detained by the NYPD, along with model and actor Indya Moore, author Glennon Doyle, activist Linda Sarsour, rabbi Abby Stein and writer David Valesco. Many demonstrators remained on the scene after police ordered them to disperse, but they did not appear to resist arrest.
Opposition to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza has prompted a seismic shift in US public opinion of Israel, a change that has begun to trickle into US elections, with scores of leftist candidates<\/a> winning primaries earlier this year while openly calling to end US aid to Israel. While reflexive support for Israel was once a prerequisite<\/a> for anyone running for office, in some districts it has increasingly become a liability.
Many of the openly pro-Palestinian candidates who seized primary wins earlier this year were also at Thursday\u2019s protest, including New York\u2019s Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander, Pennsylvania\u2019s Chris Rabb, New Jersey\u2019s Adam Hamawy, and Colorado\u2019s Melat Kiros. Several New York City and state officials and candidates were also in attendance and at least 10 were arrested, including city council members Chi Oss\u00e9 and Tiffany Cab\u00e1n.
\u201cI think it is really important to send a message that New Yorkers do not stand for this,\u201d Chevalier, a pro-Palestinian activist whose primary win in June stunned the political establishment<\/a>, told reporters at the protest shortly before being arrested. <\/strong>\u201cIt is really important that we show that we are willing to fight back against our tax dollars being used to commit war crimes.\u201d
Hamawy<\/a>, an army doctor who participated in a medical mission in Gaza<\/a> in 2024, told the Guardian as police moved in to make arrests \u201cwe\u2019re ready to do what we have to do. We shouldn\u2019t have to do that to stop a genocide. It\u2019s ridiculous that we have to come out on the streets and protest when we have the body that\u2019s supposed to be upholding international law right there in front of us, inviting Netanyahu as a guest rather than trying him as a war criminal in The Hague.\u201d
The NYPD did not immediately confirm the number of arrests but organizers estimate it was more than 100. The office of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The protests presented a challenge to the mayorMamdani, who at one point pledged to arrest Netanyahu should he come to town, and who has long said his administration supports New Yorkers\u2019 right to protest.
Mamdani has repeatedly called Netanyahu a \u201cwar criminal\u201d who is \u201cnot welcome in New York City\u201d but admitted earlier this year<\/a> that he does not have the legal authority to order his arrest, calling instead on the federal government to do so. At a press conference earlier this week, Mamdani said that he had no plans to attend any protests outside the UN but made clear that New Yorkers were free to do so.
\u201cTo New Yorkers, I have never encouraged them to protest, what I have always told them is that they have the right to do so in this city,\u201d he said. \u201cWe respect that right and this is a city that is proud of the constitution and proud of the first amendment.\u201d
Mamdani\u2019s own election, after a historic campaign in which his criticism of Israel played an outsized role<\/a>, was a sign of just how much how many New Yorkers had turned on Israel.
\u201cMayor Mamdani campaigned and won his election speaking about a promise to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and that was something that thousands and hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers voted for,\u201d said Aber Kawas, who in November is slated to become the first Palestinian-American elected official in the New York legislature and who was also detained at Thursday\u2019s protest.
\u201cHim winning is sending a message that this is what constituents want to see,\u201d she added. \u201cThey do not want Benjamin Netanyahu to be allowed to enter into New York City and they want Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n

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