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Source: https://www.jns.org/the-democrats-and-israel/
Pro-Hamas Protesters Ignored at Democratic National Convention
(JNS) Mitchell Bard - Pro-Hamas protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago called for an arms embargo on Israel but were largely ignored. Protesters were kept far from the convention center so that delegates didn't have to see or hear them. Estimates of their number ranged from 2,000 to 5,000. Most of the events drew a few hundred or less. Seven delegates from the "Uncommitted" movement held a sit-in demanding a speaking slot for a Palestinian American and were rebuffed. Dana Milbank wrote in the Washington Post about the "comically small" crowds that reporters outnumbered. "If the whole world was watching, they were seeing a once-powerful protest movement devolve into buffoonery."