Several US cities witness protests condemning Israeli entity’s crime against Palestinian people
WASHINGTON, April 24, (ST) – Several US cities have witnessed protests in support of the Palestinian people and condemning the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against them.
According to WAFA News Agency, hundreds of protesters took part in a rally yesterday at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in protest of the recent Israeli occupation’s raidd Al-Quds [Jerusalem].
The protest in Chicago came in the aftermath of a series of raids since April 15 in which the Israeli occupation used brutal force against Muslim worshipers praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem in an attempt to empty the holy site to make way for Israeli radicals to celebrate Passover there.
The protesters waved Palestinian flags and banners that called on the Israeli occupation forces to take their “hands off Jerusalem” and to stop their daily assaults on Palestinians.
Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez, a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause, addressed the protesters, saying: “This is the fight of the international proletariat revolutions…we see Zionists attacking our siblings, we cannot be quiet, we must denounce it!”
Lesley Williams from the Jewish Voice for Peace also spoke during the rally: “How long will it be before Palestinian lives matter…we wonder how can that be when the press highlights every single Israeli death but ignores the scores of Palestinians that die every year”.
Frank Chapman from the Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression addressed the crowd: “I don’t have to be where my government is at – I oppose where they’re at. We want Palestine to be free! Our solidarity is without conditions, however you fight in your liberation movement, we are with you!”
Emma Lozano from Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said: “We are both diasporas who know too well the hypocrisy of the former colonizer nations who now turn a deaf ear to our people.”
Other protests were also held in the cities of Houston and Tampa.
Yesterday, citizens protested in New York outside the doors of the Israeli entity’s Consulate in support of the Palestinian people and condemning the crimes of this entity.
During the protest, the citizens raised the Palestinian flag and banners and chanted slogans in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression and campaigns of Judaization and arbitrary operations against the Palestinians.
Basma Qaddour