Anti-Israel New York City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban was arrested along with several other protesters as scores of screaming demonstrators descended on the Manhattan offices of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Friday, sources told The Post.
Caban joined roughly 200 pro-Palestinian activists from Jewish Voices for Peace who began occupying the Midtown office building at around 12:20 p.m., donning T-shirts with “let Gaza live” emblazoned across them.
Several protesters could be seen being zip tied and led away as NYPD cops forced them out of the building, footage shot by Fox News showed.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many arrests were made.
Banging empty pots and pans, which the protesters said signified the lack of food available to Palestinians, the crowd stormed the building demanding Schumer and Gillibrand do more to beef up aid to Gaza.
“We are calling on them to let aid in, to stop the bombing and allow aid into the Palestinian people of Gaza right now,” Jay Saper, a spokesperson for the group, told The Post.
“This starvation crisis in Gaza is at a tipping point, and so we have to raise our voices.”
After being forcibly removed from the building, a smaller group of around 30 protesters continued to demonstrate outside at around 2 p.m., chanting “Let Gaza live!”
Saper said the group was “outraged” at the New York Senators’ vote Wednesday against Senator Bernie Sanders resolutions, which called on the US to restrict arms and explosive sales to Israel.
Both resolutions overwhelmingly failed in the Senate 27-70 and 24-73 for assault rifles and bombs, respectively.
“These Senators refuse to take that action to save lives and our Jewish tradition teaches us that life is precious, so that’s why we’re calling on them to block arms to Israel so that the people of Gaza can live,” Saper said.
Schumer addressed his vote in a statement released on Wednesday.
“As I said this week, the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government have a responsibility to urgently work with experienced and long-standing humanitarian and development partners of the U.S. to surge the delivery of food, services, and humanitarian assistance to innocent Palestinians in Gaza,” he said.
“I have also long held that security assistance to Israel is not about any one government but about our support for the Israeli people. For that reason, I voted no on the resolutions of disapproval on aid to Israel,” the senator added.
The lefty backlash is the latest display of the rift in the Democratic Party over the Israel-Hamas war, including dissatisfaction with Schumer’s handling of the conflict.
Anti-Israel Jewish groups including JVP have even targeted the Brooklyn-based senator’s home. Last year, over 100 protesters were arrested while holding a rally near his residence.
The fed-up Dems have sought to remove the long-time lawmaker from office by pushing progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for his seat in 2028.
Though Ocasio-Cortez has not made any indications that she is planning to run for the US Senate, a recent Honan Strategy poll commissioned by the Jewish Voters Action Network showed the “Squad” member crushing the five-term incumbent 54% to 33%.
Saper said the pro-Palestinian group had no intentions of letting up until it sees action.
“We are committed to continuing to build our movement and to raise our voices until the bombs stop dropping on Gaza, until Aid has been allowed in and until the Palestinian people are free,” he said.
