“Members of the progressive Jewish community in New York recently commemorated the Jewish day of mourning Tisha B’Av by taking to the streets to protest the current administration’s policy toward undocumented immigrants — and the help that it is getting from Amazon.
The fast day remembers the destruction of the Jewish temples. Reportedly well more than 200 Jewish activists participated in the “Close the Camps” demo on Aug. 11.
Personalized signs were made at nearby gay-and-lesbian synagogue Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. Demonstrators walked to the Amazon Books store at 34th St. near Fifth Ave. to protest technology — including facial-recognition software — by Amazon that is being used by local and federal law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to track, identify and hunt down immigrants.”
