A number of protesters were arrested after hundreds of people occupied the Oakland Federal Building Conference Center on November 13, and called for a ceasefire in Gaza, local media
reported.Footage by Ariel Koren shows protesters being arrested by police.“My father and grandfather did not escape Nazi Germany [so our] history could be exploited to kill other people,” a protester in the footage shouts as she’s escorted away by local police.The Jewish Voice for Peace (
JVP) Bay Area said in a
post to X: “We are not leaving, we demand an end to this bloodshed, we will not see Jewish grief used to perpetuate genocide.” Credit: Ariel Koren via Storyful