Anti-Israel ceasefire activists have embraced a classic tactic of the left, particularly of environmentalist groups -- blocking highways and ticking off drivers.
We saw them do it in Los Angeles on Wednesday when they blocked hundreds of drivers on the 110 Freeway, including two school buses full of kids, for about an hour. The drivers lost patience with them and started picking them up. One of them even got tossed into the street. Then the police arrested about 75 people, so it didn't end well for the ceasefire characters.
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On Thursday, they tried the same action in Philadelphia shutting down I-76 westbound.
The protesters called for a ceasefire in Gaza as they lined up and blocked traffic on the westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway in Center City near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Police reported that a group of about 150 people with Jewish Voice for Peace started to gather on the Spring Garden Street Bridge around 3.30pm as they hung banners that said 'Let Gaza Live' and 'Ceasefire Now.'
Then other activists jumped out of their cars below the bridge on I-76, then stretched out in a line to block the expressway.
BREAKING: Gaza protest has the Schuylkill shut down right now. I-76 west is stopped. pic.twitter.com/uSXjnkqQY9
— Jason Martinez (@JasonFox29) December 14, 2023
🚨#BREAKING: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors are Occupying I-76 Highway shutting down traffic ⁰
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 14, 2023
📌#Philadelphia | #PA
Currently, approximately 400 Pro Palestine protesters and activists are currently and occupying the I-76 Highway at the Spring Garden Street Bridge in… pic.twitter.com/RrrOSRIsi2
It's the same leftist astroturf group that has been involved in many of the protests in various parts of the country -- Jewish Voice for Peace. It's ridiculous because what they're doing convinces no one, it's only making people more angry with them. Their actions only embolden Hamas, so their actions have very little to do with real "peace." They don't give a darn about who they may hurt in the process of what they're doing, either. It's rush hour, so they did it deliberately when there were likely the greatest amount of people. If you have work or a sick child in the car, so what? You must all bend to their will.
This being Philly, though, the terrorist supporters shouldn't count on the common folk bending to their will.
Some Philly drivers know what needs to be done https://t.co/buM4ZoVTVJ
— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) December 14, 2023
Rabbi Alissa Wise, the leader of Rabbis for Ceasefire, said this was how they were celebrating Hanukkah this year. "This year means disrupting business as usual,'" she told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Again, this kind of tactic didn't end well: About 32 were arrested, zip-tied, and hauled off by the police. The highway was reopened and I can bet that not only didn't they convince anyone to change their minds to support their cause. If anything, anyone who was there who might have been so inclined to might be so ticked off at this point, that they wouldn't do it. If they keep using this tactic they'll end up alienating the people that they want to convince in blue cities like Philadelphia.
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