At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.

A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.

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    20 days ago

    I see. So based on your “evidence,” 60% of the percentage of the 80% of Jews that live in America in that combined 80% total of Israel and the U.S. are “Zionists” (even though that’s not what your poll said).

    This is what the poll said:

    Among U.S. Jews overall, 58% say they are very or somewhat emotionally attached to Israel,

    “Somewhat emotionally attached to Israel” is not Zionism by any stretch of the imagination.

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        20 days ago

        No. No it does not. I live in Indiana. I was born here. I have an emotional attachment to it.

        If Canada decided to invade and turn this into Upper Ontario, because Canadian names are weird, I not only wouldn’t give a shit, I’d welcome the universal healthcare.

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            19 days ago

            No. And the people who claim they have an emotional attachment to Israel are not necessarily advocating for that either. A point you now seem to be intentionally missing.

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                19 days ago

                That isn’t even relevant to the ‘emotional attachment’ thing. You’re just bringing up irrelevancies because you want Jew to equal Israeli and vice-versa.

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                    19 days ago

                    How kind of you to finally acknowledge that after two days of “Jews support Israel and this shitty poll that doesn’t prove that proves it.”

                    Too bad you couldn’t have just come in here and congratulated the Jewish members JVFP that were just arrested for this work of activism and decided to make this whole thing an attack on Jews instead.

                    Of course, you have yet to even acknowledge this activism despite that the fact that they STORMED THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

                    Not good enough for you to even acknowledge in a post about that activism apparently.