Euphoria star Hunter Schafer arrested at pro-Palestine protest

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Hunter Schafer was arrested whereas at a pro-Palestine protest with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on Monday.

The actor, 25, who’s finest recognized for her roles within the hit teen drama Euphoria and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, known as for a ceasefire in Gaza as she protested with the Jewish-led self-described “anti-Zionist” organisation on Monday to disrupt President Joe Biden’s look on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

The Jewish-led anti-Zionist organisation has mentioned that the actor was at the NBC headquarters at the Rockefeller Centre, New York, and was arrested alongside 50 protesters.

“Hunter was arrested at the protest, along with 50 other people,” a JVP spokesperson mentioned in a press release to Vulture. “We commend her commitment to Palestinian freedom and to a future of justice for everyone.”

Photos of the occasion present Shafer carrying a t-shirt printed with a slogan demanding a ceasefire.

In a video posted on the organisation’s Instagram account, Schafer and the protesters chant: “No more weapons, no more war, ceasefire’s what we’re fighting for.” They continued: “Joe Biden, we know you are here. You are not welcome in our city.”

The group criticised Biden’s international coverage and known as for his administration to rethink its stance and push for a ceasefire within the ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas.

A banner held by Shafer and her fellow protesters, learn: “Jews to Biden – stop arming genocide.”

The Independent has contacted the NYPD and representatives for Schafer for remark.

On their web site, the JVP says it’s the “largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organisation in the world. We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of US Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people”.

“Like generations of Jewish leftists before us, we fight for the liberation of all people. We believe that through organising, we can and will dismantle the institutions and structures that sustain injustice and grow something new, joyful, beautiful, and life-sustaining in their place,” it mentioned.