Mehr als zweihundert Aktivisten der nordamerikanischen Organisation Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), darunter die Fotografin Nan Goldin, die Filmemacherin Laura Poitras sowie die Künstlerin Molly Crabapple wurden diesen Montag in New York kurzzeitig verhaftet, weil sie an einem Sit-in für Palästina in der Wall Street vor der dortigen Börse teilgenommen hatten.
Nach Angaben der Veranstalter zogen mit Öffnung der Börsensäle um 9.30 Uhr etwa fünfhundert Demonstranten an der Wall Street auf. Aktivisten stülpten rote T-Shirts mit der Aufschrift „Not In Our Name“ („Nicht in unserem Namen“) über die häufig in der „Tagesschau“ zu sehenden Bronzeskulpturen des „Bullen“ und des „Furchtlosen Mädchens“ gegenüber der New York Stock Exchange.
„Nicht in unserem Namen“
Auch Transparente mit den Aufschriften „Gaza bombardiert, Wall Street boomt“, „Stoppt die Bewaffnung Israels“ und „Finanziert die FEMA [US-Katastrophenhilfe] as a substitute of genocide” have been unrolled. The marketing campaign focused Israeli assaults within the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in addition to weapons producers corresponding to Lockheed Martin, the biggest producer of fight plane and gear within the United States.
Monday’s protest virtually coincided with final weekend’s Jewish vacation of Yom Kippur, one in all Judaism’s highest holidays. On Yom Kippur in October 1973, Egypt, Syria and different Arab states attacked Israel unannounced.
Goldin says he’s pleased with his arrest
At least six activists additionally chained themselves to the gates of the inventory alternate in the course of the protest, from the place cops from the New York Police Department (NYPD) eliminated them. Artists Goldin, Poitras and Crabapple have been among the many 200 individuals taken into custody by the NYPD, however they have been launched on Monday. “I’m proud to be arrested with them if it helps amplify our message,” photographer Goldin instructed the American web tradition portal Hyperallergic.
Molly Crabapple, a New York-based artist, instructed the portal: “Every day we see a new, unspeakable Israeli war crime on our smartphones. […] Israeli bombs level homes in Beirut and burn Palestinian patients alive in Gaza.”
Candice Breitz, a Berlin-based South African artist who didn’t participate within the protest however shared images on-line “in solidarity” with the activists, lamented to Hyperallergic: “As progressive Jews (alongside Palestinian, Muslim and/or Arab allies, the like-minded) we’re numerically smaller within the German context and are instantly stigmatized if we stand behind protests that criticize the continued carnage of Palestinian civilians, the continued Israeli insurance policies relating to Palestine and the Israeli state’s violations of humanitarian legislation. The artist is outwardly referring to the cancellation of her Saarbrücken exhibition deliberate for 2024 by the Saarland Museum, as Breitz had beforehand held a protest occasion at which she expressed her help for the Palestinians in a video.
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