Three days of marches, actions and disruptions did not convince the Democratic National Convention to listen to Palestinians, their supporters and their demands
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Three days of marches, actions and disruptions did not convince the Democratic National Convention to listen to Palestinians, their supporters and their demands
An autonomous group of activists gathered outside of Boeing’s headquarters in downtown Chicago to denounce and protest the company’s involvement in the genocide of Palestinians. Boeing manufactures multiple weapon systems that are routinely used in war crimes against Palestinians.
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik authorized the NYPD to arrest students participating in the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the university's South Lawn around 1:30pm.
Last week, twenty protesters gathered outside the Music Box Theatre on Chicago’s Northside to protest the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) and to support the international call for a cultural boycott of Israel.
The Jewish United Fund helped plan and hosted a fundraiser for the IDF at the hotel, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel was in attendance, gave a speech and donated $5,000 from him and his wife. Activist, who attended the fundraiser, interrupted the mayor’s speech by chanting, “We are Jews, shame on you. Stop killing children now.”
The Stolen Homes Coalition’s campaign demanded Airbnb stop listing rentals in Israeli settlements, during a Day of Action on June 2. Rallies targeting Airbnb and its investors were held in 18 cities in the U.S. and abroad.
A crowd of people gathered in front of the White House on Sunday to demand the right of return for Palestinians and protest the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Last month, Jewish Voice for Peace Columbia/Barnard held a protest outside the office of the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn based organization that provides financial assistance to Jewish settlers in the Palestinian city of Hebron.
University of Minnesota Law School activists paid a steep price for peacefully protesting an event that featured Moshe Halbertal, co-author of Israel Defense Force’s Code of Ethics, last November.
Members of the Chicago chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and the new, social justice-oriented Jewish congregation Tzedek Chicago rallied outside the headquarters of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago Thursday evening, protesting what they described as the JUF’s “role in enabling racist police violence by brokering the relationship between the Chicago Police Department and the Israeli military.”
Tuesday night approximately thirty people from the Latino, Palestinian, and Jewish communities gathered outside of the National Museum of Mexican Art to protest the museum’s cooperation with the American Jewish Committee (a Zionist organization with ties to Israel).
Nearly 4,000 people took to the streets of downtown Chicago to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and call for an end to the Israeli aggression and its occupation of Palestine, according to organizers.
Approximately 200 people gathered in the rain outside of the Israeli Consulate in Chicago last Friday to voice their opposition to the recent attacks at Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli security forces last week.
The Cleveland Cavaliers opened up pre-season play against an Israeli team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, on Oct. 5 while several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Quicken Loans Arena to protest the team’s first year head coach, David Blatt, who supported and attempted to justify Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza this past summer, which killed 500 Palestinian children.
Some people who came to watch the glorification of war machines stopped by the demonstration and watched. Organizers said, initially Chicago police officers who were on the scene, told the protestors they had to leave, but in the end the officers did not force the demonstrators to leave.
A few hundred attended the Chicago Vigil for Gaza on Aug. 9. People met at the historic Water Tower in downtown before marching to the Tribune Tower. There, religious leaders from Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths read prayers. The vigil was held in remembrance of the nearly 2,000 Palestinians that have been murdered during Israel’s assault on the densely populated area.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the White House for a march to protest the attacks on Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.