Two pro-Palestinian protesters managed to get on stage at Daley Plaza before being dragged off by police.
A Daley Plaza protest in Chicago got underway during an Israel Independence Celebration on Tuesday.Even while Israel itself has held a more subdued Independence Day celebration on Tuesday, canceling several planned events, here in Chicago, the commemoration of Yom Ha'atzmaut was an important one for hundreds of local Jewish people.
There were reminders of October 7th and its aftermath everywhere on Tuesday. The music played at the beginning of the program was the same music played during the Nova Music festival before Hamas's brutal attack that left 1,200 people dead inside Israel. "We just sat on the floor in my little house in Florida, watched it and cried and tried to analyze how he's looking. He had his hair shaved. Now, it's growing back. How's the arm that was blown off? Analyzing every little thing," Polin said.
Two protesters managed to get on stage at Daley Plaza before being dragged off by police. For Palestinians, Israel's founding is known as the "Nakba," or "catastrophe," as some 700,000 of them fled or were driven from their homes.
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