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Source: https://www.adl.org/blog/day-of-rage-rallies-demonize-jews-israel
"Day of Rage" Rallies in U.S. Demonize Jews, Israel
(Anti-Defamation League) Anti-Israel groups have held at least 35 rallies in cities across the U.S. since July 1, 2020, ostensibly to express their opposition to the potential application of Israeli law to parts of the West Bank. A large number of these events featured classic anti-Semitic tropes or hostile language demonizing Zionism, the movement for Jewish self-determination and statehood supported by the vast majority of American Jews and Americans in general. About half the rallies included messaging that bizarrely blamed Israel for police brutality in the U.S. At the July 1 rally in Brooklyn, some in the crowd chanted in Arabic, "Death to America, Death to Israel." One speaker said, "We don't want a fake Palestinian state that they give us while Israel still exists....We don't want to go back to our homes just in Gaza and the West Bank. We want all of it!"