Jersey City, New Jersey Ceasefire-Now of Northern New Jersey initiated “Jersey City is the Red Line,” a demonstration held June 20 at the Grove Street Pedestrian Plaza. The action was inspired by the “Surround the White House: We  are the Red Line” action in Washington, D.C., which drew some 100,

Jersey City protesters stretched a red banner across the width of the pedestrian plaza for their Red Line. They made posters with enlarged photographs of victims and the rubble of homes and hospitals left by [neocolonialism’s] bombs in Gaza. These same bombs were paid for by U.S. tax dollars.

The demonstrators called for an end to sending U.S. weapons and money for [the] genocidal attack on Gaza. They vowed continued support for Gaza, for Palestinian liberation and an end to [the] occupation. The protest also accused Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ), of supporting genocide; denounced the members of the Jersey City City Council who abstained on a ceasefire resolution as complicit in genocide; and demanded an end to Jersey City’s sister relationship with Beit Shemesh, a right-wing settlement near Jerusalem.