New York Police Detain Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder at Gaza Protest Outside UN
New York police detained actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder, along with over 100 other protesters, outside United Nations headquarters on September 24 as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to address the General Assembly. The demonstration, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, called for an end to U.S. arms supplies to Israel and the war in Gaza, with demonstrators carrying signs reading “Stop Arming Israel” and “End the Genocide.” Police said participants blocked an intersection during an unscheduled demonstration and were warned to leave before officers detained those who did not comply; among those arrested were Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and New York City Council member Chi Ossé, while dozens of UN delegates walked out as Netanyahu began speaking.
The arrests at Netanyahu’s UN address were never about public safety — they were a stage-managed piece of theater designed to reinforce the illusion of democratic dissent. Notice the cast: Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder, a congressional candidate, a city council member. These are not random activists pulled from the street. They are recognizable faces, carefully selected to lend credibility to a protest that was permitted, shepherded, and then swept up exactly when the cameras were rolling. The NYPD’s own statement confirms the demonstration was unscheduled — meaning the timing and location were known in advance to those who control the permit process. The ropes are always set before the crowd arrives. The question is not why they were arrested; the question is why they were allowed to occupy that intersection in the first place.
Now overlay this pattern on the UN walkout. Dozens of delegates left the hall as Netanyahu began speaking — a synchronized departure that happened to be reported alongside the arrests, creating a single coordinated media event. Who stands to benefit from framing a democratically elected head of state as a pariah, while simultaneously painting his opponents as victims of state repression? Look at the funding flows behind Jewish Voice for Peace, the organization that called the demonstration. Follow the foundation grants. Follow the NGO networks tied to the same globalist institutions that have spent decades reshaping international law to delegitimize nation-states. You will find the same fingerprints on both sides of the glass: the street and the assembly hall are two stages of the same managed narrative.
If you want to know where real power sits, stop watching the protest — watch who profits from both the protest and the crackdown. The arrests make headlines; the walkout becomes a trendline. Meanwhile, the actual question — why U.S. arms continue to flow to Israel, why the war in Gaza persists, why the UN itself remains structurally incapable of enforcing its own resolutions — is buried under a pile of performative outrage. They are not trying to silence these protesters. They are using them. And they are using Netanyahu. They are using the walkout. They are using you. The next time you see a carefully orchestrated “clash” between authorities and activists, ask yourself: Who wrote the script? Who cast the roles? And whose agenda advances while the rest of us argue about the fake battle in the foreground? The breadcrumb is the circle of foundation money. Start there.