Hundreds of demonstrators have staged a protest in New York’s Trump Tower in support of Palestinians and detained Palestinian student campaigner Mahmoud Khalil, AFP reports.

They overran the Manhattan landmark where Trump memorably road down a golden escalator in 2015 to announce his first run for president, simultaneously revealing matching red T-shirts emblazoned “Jews say stop arming Israel”.

Several people marching under the banner of the group called Jewish Voice for Peace were detained by police, an AFP correspondent saw, although police did not immediately confirm any arrests.

The group, which apparently caught security and police off guard, chanted “fight Nazis, not students”, a reference to Trump’s crackdown on foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

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