Here in New York, police arrested more than 40 people Monday evening as they held a nonviolent protest outside the Trump International Hotel demanding an end to Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza and a halt to U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. The protests were led by the Jewish American group IfNotNow. Democracy Now! spoke to Ari Lev Fornari, a rabbi from Philadelphia, as he was being arrested for blocking traffic.

Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari: “The only way that Palestinians and Israelis can be safe, including the hostages who are held in Gaza, is if the people of Palestine are free. We just saw that Evyatar David, one of the remaining living Israeli hostages, is starving. He’s starving because everyone in Gaza is starving. Food aid to Gaza will save the remaining hostages, and it will save the children and the people of Gaza, who deserve to live. We’re here to say, 'Let Gaza live,' to risk everything to say, 'Never again.'”