“There is nothing antisemitic about fighting for people’s right to live,” says Jewish Voice for Peace organiser Elena Stein, who on Monday joined hundreds of protesters arrested to block entrances to the New York Stock Exchange.
Democracy Now! discusses the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
“We are filled with horror beyond words and are attempting to embody just an ounce of that refusal,” Stein says of the moral urgency of protesting Israel’s actions in the Middle East, which she describes as a “war of extermination … done with US cover”.
She says Jewish Voice for Peace chose the stock exchange to draw attention to the role of US financial and corporate interests in arming the Israeli military.
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