- Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters swarmed three bridges and the Holland Tunnel in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning, blocking rush-hour traffic for more than an hour.
- Demonstrators from the “Shut it Down for Palestine” rally marched through City Hall Park, and then groups of them descended on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and Holland Tunnel.
- Some of the demonstrators sat down in the middle of major roadways, linking themselves together using zip ties and even cement-filled tires, which forced the police to employ power tools to get them apart.
- The police took over 330 people, most of them women, into custody. Read More