Here in New York, about 500 antiwar demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace gathered Wednesday outside the office of Comptroller Mark Levine, protesting his plans to invest city pension funds in Israeli bonds, which provide resources for Israel’s bombing of Iran, Lebanon and Gaza. Joining the “emergency Passover Seder” was Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist and political prisoner who was jailed by ICE for over 100 days beginning in March of last year.

Mahmoud Khalil: “Levine says it’s profitable to invest in the Israeli bonds. He says that they are solid investments with high returns. It’s not surprising that a war economy is profitable. That’s what Israel’s economy is. It’s a war economy. That’s why there is high yields. But buying these bonds only ensures the injustice and the system of occupation continues.”