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A massive group of demonstrators marched through downtown Wednesday chanting “Free Palestine.”
The rally was one of two organized this week by the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, an umbrella organization for a number of Chicago-chapter Palestinian activist and community groups including American Muslims for Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network.
The crowd of at least a thousand gathered at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive Wednesday afternoon, listened to speakers who advocated against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in recent clashes in the Middle East and began a two-hour-long march that ended outside the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest at 500 W. Madison St.