Jewish children staged a protest in New York: what they demand

Jewish children captured Brooklyn streets, demanding the resumption of summer camps with an overnight stay. Day camps should open from June 29, but there is no decision on overnight camps yet. This publication writes New York Post.

On Thursday evening, June 11, Jewish children blocked the movement of cars on the streets of South Williamsburg in New York. They demanded that the staff allow summer camps to stay overnight.

The videos of the protest, in which many of the young people expressed their demands while riding bicycles and scooters, were posted on Twitter by several Jewish media organizations.

“We want camp, we want camp,” the children chanted as they rode on the sidewalk and out onto the road, obstructing traffic on Wallabut Street and Lee Avenue.

Many of the demonstrators were holding paper tablets with the words "camp."

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In one of the videos published in YouTube, social activist and radio host Heshy Tishler, surrounded by children, says they are here to protest. Tischler also threatens new protests in Borough Park and the possible closure of the Brooklyn Bridge if State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio do not come to an immediate solution to the problem.

Day camps across the state received the green light for reopening from June 29th. The conditions for their functioning can be read. here.

True, so far, Governor Andrew Cuomo has only announced the work of day camps. Opening camps overnight remains in question. Experts fear that the resumption of camps will lead to a new outbreak of coronavirus, which is associated with the occurrence of dangerous syndrome in children.