Last night at around 7pm, protestors marched over the Brooklyn Bridge towards City Hall as a large Palestinian flag reading “Gaza. Boycott Divestment Sanctions” was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge. The flag was removed by the NYPD approximately 30 minutes later. Reportedly 300 people attended the protest.
The "no justice, no peace" chant has made it's way to NYC, except this is for a Pro-Palestinian protest. #Gaza pic.twitter.com/m9iPMGVtdu
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) August 20, 2014
Mashable noted that many connected the oppression in Gaza to that in Ferguson, chanting “Ferguson to Palestine, occupation is a crime.”
“In the cases of brutality in Ferguson and in the case of Gaza, what you have is decades of anger from people who feel they are oppressed,” Josmar Trujillo, an activist who spoke at the protest, said.
Fighting resumed last night in Gaza after the negotiations to extend a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel failed.
With @jvpliveNYC at #NYC2GAZA. Starting to march — Brooklyn Bridge to One Police Plaza pic.twitter.com/dRfFuP9J3s
— Max Newman-Plotnick (@maxwellnp) August 20, 2014
The hanging of the large flag was reminiscent of the white American flags hung recently by two German artists on the Brooklyn Bridge. There were also demonstrations in Lower Manhattan for Ferguson and Michael Brown last night. (Photo: @jeffrae)
