Protestors arrested for occupying Palantir building after rallying with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani against ICE

Colin Mixson and Barry Williams, New York Daily News on Apr 7, 2026

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NEW YORK — Multiple activists were arrested for occupying the lobby of the Palantir building in the West Village after Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers to protest the federal immigration crackdown on the sixth night of Passover.

Mamdani and more than 500 activists gathered at Union Square on Monday for “Sedar in the Streets,” where demonstrators prayed, sang songs and rallied against corporate collusion with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

“Thank you for showing us what it looks like, showing us what it means to live out the lessons of Passover,” Mamdani said. “Lessons of hope overcoming fear, of solidarity being able to overcome isolation, and the knowledge that at the end of the story, freedom is attained, and with it the sweetness of liberation.”

The protestors parted ways with Mamdani around 6 p.m. and headed to Palantir‘s offices, located about a half mile west on W. 18th St. near Sixth Ave., where more than two dozen activists sat in the building’s lobby and unfurled a banner that read “ICE kidnaps, Palantir profits. Let our people go,” as hundreds more waited outside.

Inside the lobby, the group read testimony from migrants held in ICE detention, while rabbis led protesters in song and performed Jewish rituals, according to a spokeswoman for Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, which organized the protest.

One rabbi likened the tech company, which partnered with ICE to use its software to track migrants, to “modern-day pharaohs.”

“This Passover, in honor of the Jewish holiday of liberation, it feels like a mitzvah, a sacred obligation, to sit here and refuse to leave until Palantir ends its collusion and complicity with ICE’s terror campaign,” said Rabbi Miriam Grossman.

Police began making arrests after orders to vacate the building were ignored, according to an NYPD spokesman, who could not immediately say how many people were taken into custody. Charges remained pending Monday night.

Organizers with Jews For Racial & Economic Justice said 24 protestors were arrested.

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