After being put in handcuffs, Nef says she spent around four hours in jail before she made bond and was released. She has a court date later this month. All in all, it was worth it, she says, though she acknowledges it’s a privilege to feel that way.
“What I participated in on Monday makes more sense to me and has given me a greater sense of agency than anything I’ve done all year,” she says, adding that she hopes anybody who is a citizen will consider joining in acts of peaceful protest. “I wasn’t protesting because I feel guilty as an American Jew. I did this because of what I know politically, what I’ve learned historically, and what I feel emotionally. I’m protesting because it’s what I believe is right, and it’s bigger than my Jewish identity.”
On Wednesday, the Senate voted on a Democratic proposal to block the continued war in Iran, which went down on party lines. (Only Senator John Fetterman joined the Republicans in voting against.) Next up was Sanders’s latest measure on the sale of arms to Israel, S.J. Res 32. In the end, 11 Democratic senators voted against, including Schumer and Gillibrand, and the measure failed.
A spokesperson for Schumer told Vogue: “Senator Schumer has made it clear: Trump’s reckless war against Iran is a disaster that needs to end immediately. The senator has led the charge to make the Senate vote four times on a war-powers resolution to stop this war, which the Republicans have blocked each and every time.” Gillibrand’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Both Jewish Voice for Peace and Nef have their sights set on the future. “It is becoming increasingly impossible for Congress to ignore our voices,” says Beth Miller, the political director of Jewish Voices for Peace. “There will be more votes to block weapons in the future, and we will continue to organize our mass base behind each of these, while also pushing for broader legislative vehicles to block weapons like the Block the Bombs Act in the House of Representatives.”
Nef is a bit more straightforward: “Take it to the street.”
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