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As the Democratic National Convention ended last week, and delegates and politicians, journalists, technicians and stagehands all caught their flights home from Chicago, residents of “Little Palestine,” in the suburb of Bridgeview, just outside the city line, tried to move on from a week in the spotlight.
The quiet neighborhood, home to one of the United States’ largest Palestinian diasporic communities, is full of multigenerational families of Arab ancestry. Many Little Palestinians spent the week of the convention organizing and attending the protests and sit-ins held in the convention’s precincts uptown, urging Vice President Kamala Harris to support a cease-fire and arms embargo in the Israel-Hamas war.
Though the protests and rallies were an important way for Little Palestinians to make known Muslim Americans’ power as voters and their desire for an arms embargo on U.S. weapons sales to Israel and a cease-fire, the convention left many Arab Americans and Muslim Americans feeling at a loss as the war grinds on.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators pray after a march outside the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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