Eight activists were arrested outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, September 17, while forming a blockade in protest of two tenants they say are profiteering from Israel’s violence against Palestinians. Tucked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard complex (BNY), a group of city-owned buildings where tenants pay no real estate taxes, the surveillance drone manufacturer Easy Aerial is listed as a “Fine Art/Photography” business. The company has ties to both the Israeli military and the United States Department of Homeland Security. Not far away, Crye Precision, a textile producer that has allegedly supplied apparel for the Israeli military — a claim the company denies — carries the label “Fashion/Accessories” on the BNY’s website. Over the last year, activists, community members, and, most recently, one state senator have called upon the BNY to evict Easy Aerial and Crye Precision. Maisha Morales, a community advocate involved in local politics who resides in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighbor...