By Cath Turner and Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.
The growing protests follow mass arrests of demonstrators at some East Coast universities in recent days, and show a deepening dissatisfaction in the United States, historically Israel’s most important ally, with the course of the war with Hamas.
Pro-Palestinian protests have followed President Joe Biden, a self-declared “Zionist,” for months. On universities, protests have recently grown to encampments that draw students and faculty of various backgrounds, including of…
