Hunter Schafer arrested at ceasefire protest during Joe Biden's Seth Meyers appearance

Hunter Schafer of Euphoria and The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes fame was arrested during a demonstration outside the NBC building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Schafer was part of a pro-Palestine protest organized by Jewish Voices for Peace to disrupt President Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told The Hollywood Reporter that “30 individuals were taken into custody and issued two summonses for trespass and disorderly conduct before they were released.”

“Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews and allies just took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt President Biden’s appearance on @LateNightSeth. Biden’s deadly foreign policy has funded and fueled genocide in Gaza. 50 protesters were arrested by the NYPD and Secret Service,” Jewish Voices for Peace wrote in a statement on its social media. “The President needs to start listening to the American people—not the far-Right Israeli government indiscriminately bombing the people of Gaza, destroying 70% of infrastructure, including hospitals, universities and the electricity and water grids.”

Schafer can be seen in photographs wearing a “Ceasefire Now” shirt and holding a banner that reads “The world is watching.” A spokesperson for the organization told People, “Hunter was arrested at the protest, along with 50 other people. We commend her commitment to Palestinian freedom and to a future of justice for everyone.”

Biden did address the conflict during his appearance on the late-night talk show (he made international news by saying he expected a ceasefire on Monday while enjoying an ice cream cone with Meyers before the taping). “I make no bones about it, I get criticized for having said a long time ago, you need not be a Jew to be a Zionist. Were there no Israel, there’s not a Jew in the world [that would] be safe,” the president said. He promoted a “process to get to a two-state solution” that starts with a “temporary ceasefire” that would provide “peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians who are being used as pawns by Hamas.”

“Israel has had the overwhelming support of the vast majority of nations. If it keeps this up, without this incredibly conservative government they have… they’re gonna lose support from around the world,” Biden concluded. “And that is not in Israel’s interest.”