Transgender actor Elliot Page was among the celebrities protesting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York City on Thursday, while actresses Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder were detained by police.
\n\nVideo footage posted to social media shows Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, and Chelsea Manning among dissidents blocking a road outside of the United Nations headquarters in New York City while protesting Netanyahu’s visit.
\n\nActresses Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder, meanwhile, were detained by police during Thursday’s demonstration against the Israeli Prime Minister.
\n\nPhotos of the actors being led away from protests in cuffs went viral on social media before Netanyahu, who was set to speak at the U.N. General Assembly, began delivering his remarks.
\n\nIt remains unclear whether Sarandon and Einbinder were arrested or simply detained, according to a report by Variety.
\n\n“Where were you when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians?” Netanyahu asked of the delegates who had walked out on his speech, the New York Times reported.
\n\nIsrael’s Prime Minister further accused the absent delegates and those chanting against him outside of being “phony human rights protesters.”
\n\nLater in his speech, Netanyahu blasted Democratic Socialist New…
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