On Monday, thousands of protesters representing 270 groups marched in Chicago, the location of this year’s Democratic National Convention. It followed a weekend of protests in solidarity with Palestinians and will continue into the week. That's a good thing.
Pro-Palestinian protesters are exercising their rights and encouraging an important conversation within the Democratic Party. They are asking us to consider the lives of people who are being killed and injured by U.S.-made weapons.
The best thing for everyone would be to let these protests occur without comparisons with the 1968 DNC. How the party responds could determine whether the energy that Vice President Kamala Harris has amassed will continue growing.
The right, on the other hand, seems to be waiting for chaos that might never materialize. Hopefully, the entire week will be peaceful.
These protests are about more than disrupting the DNC. Like the protests on college campuses earlier this year, this march and call to action are about bringing attention to the ongoing death and destruction we are witnessing in Israel's occupied territory and our country's implication in all of it.
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