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Thousands protest US support for Israel’s war on Gaza in Chicago
“This is not about some Machiavellian politics,” said social critic and independent presidential candidate Cornel West at the onset. “This is about morality. This is about spirituality.”
Mo Hussief, a Chicago accountant, joined the rally.
“My family is in Gaza,” Hussief said. “I’ve had over 100 family members murdered over the last 10 months by the genocide. So, I’m here to protest as an American, to say I don’t want my tax dollars to be used to murder my own family.”
Hussief said it is impossible for him to cast a ballot for the vice-president as long as she supports arming Israel.
The US is by far the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, with more than 70% of its arms imports coming from the US, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Pro-Palestinian groups have for months protested the US administration’s military and financial support for Israel in its war against Hamas, which has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza.