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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Flood Trump Tower
This article originally appeared in The City. By Gwynne Hogan NEW YORK - Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters overtook Trump Tower Thursday morning, staging a sit-in in the central atrium for over an hour in a a colorful and chaotic scene in the iconic location where Donald Trump famously descended a golden elevator to announce he was running for pr, esident in 2015. With Trump now beginning his second term, the group there under the banner of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace moved into the space to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of detained Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil by federal auth orities for his role in campus protests dedicated to the same cause. Patrons and workers looked on in confusion as waves of people entered the lobby at around 11:40 a.m. unfurling banners and sitting down in the subterranean cafeteria area,...
