Susan Sarandon was arrested. Conservative outlets didn't notice.
About 100 protesters were arrested outside the UN on September 24 as Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly, among them actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder. The left-leaning and center-left outlets that covered this treated it as a story about protest legitimacy and ICC accountability. Conservative outlets, which spent years tracking Sarandon's political statements, published nothing visible in this set. The celebrity arrest that would have been a culture-war staple in other circumstances generated no coverage from the right.
Protests at Netanyahu's UN visit result in arrests including Susan Sarandon
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What happened
On September 24, 2026, approximately 100 protesters were arrested outside the United Nations in New York City during demonstrations timed to Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly. Among those arrested were actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder. The Guardian published a first-person account from arrested protester Darializa Avila Chevalier, who cited the deaths and injuries of more than 64,000 children in Gaza and described her arrest as a refusal to be "complicit in genocide." Al Jazeera separately reported on Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten's position that Netanyahu should attend UNGA despite an active ICC arrest warrant against him. Two outlets covered this story, both left of center.
The left led with the arrests and let protesters explain themselves
Al Jazeera named Sarandon and Einbinder in its headline and put the 100-arrest figure up front. The Guardian handed its op-ed column to Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the arrested protesters, who wrote in the first person about refusing to be "complicit in genocide" and cited 64,000 children killed or wounded in Gaza with American taxpayer money. That framing positions the arrests not as a law enforcement story but as a moral testimony. Al Jazeera's second piece on Dutch PM Rob Jetten added a diplomatic dimension: an ICC arrest warrant exists for Netanyahu, and at least one European leader is on record saying he should be at the UN anyway.
What one side told you that the other didn't
Right-leaning outlets that track Sarandon published nothing.
Susan Sarandon has been a reliable subject for conservative media whenever she makes a political statement. Her arrest outside the United Nations, alongside another recognizable actor, at a protest against a sitting head of government with an active ICC warrant, is exactly the kind of event that generates outrage coverage. None appears here. Whether that reflects editorial bandwidth, a late-breaking story, or a deliberate choice is unknowable from this set. What is knowable: the only outlets covering this are the Guardian and Al Jazeera, and the story they are telling goes entirely uncontested.
The ICC warrant appears in one piece. Nobody makes it the lede.
Al Jazeera's second report names the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu directly, framed through Dutch PM Rob Jetten's stated willingness to host him at UNGA regardless. That is a significant fact: a head of government under an international arrest warrant addressed the UN General Assembly, and a European leader publicly defended that decision. Neither the Guardian's op-ed nor any right-leaning outlet picked up that thread as a standalone story. The warrant is mentioned; it is not examined.
What to watch
If Sarandon or Einbinder face formal charges rather than simple desk-appearance tickets, conservative outlets will almost certainly cover it, and the framing will shift from protest legitimacy to celebrity lawbreaking. Watch for charging decisions in the next 72 hours. If charges are dropped, the story likely disappears from all coverage.
This kind of gap — where one side reports a fact and the other doesn’t mention it — shows up in about 40% of major stories.