POLICE arrested several Jewish anti-Israel protesters on Monday after hundreds of them staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange.

According to the New York Post, pro-Palestinian demonstrators sporting red shirts besieged the building in Manhattan, chaining themselves to the doors just before the opening bell sounded at the exchange.

A handful of protesters, belonging to the Jewish Voices for Peace group, removed their jackets as they camped in front of the building. According to the activists, they wore the jackets in an attempt to conceal their anti-Israel clothing and thwart any attempt to stop them before time.

The group shouted `Free Palestine` and brandished signs reading `Jews for Palestine`s freedom`. They called upon the US government to `fund FEMA, not genocide`, referring to the federal emergency management agency.