At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.
Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.
A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.
The group immediately started screaming “Free Palestine” and quickly brandished signs reading “Jews for Palestine’s freedom” as they blocked off the building and demanded the US government “fund FEMA, not genocide.”
At one point, they dressed the iconic bronze Fearless Girl statue in one of their shirts emblazoned with the phrase “Stop arming Israel.”
Roughly 200 protesters were nabbed by cops, the group’s political director, Beth Miller, told The Post, with police later confirming that 206 were booked.
Cops could be seen cuffing multiple protesters and hauling them away on Department of Correction buses.
The crowd is believed to have swelled to as many as 500 people before dispersing at noon, cops added.
“Today there were 500 Jews who came here, in front of the New York Stock Exchange, to shut down business as usual on Wall Street with a message to say the US government should stop sending weapons to the Israeli government and stop profiting from the genocide of Palestinians,” Miller told The Post.