The two groups remained separate, save for a brief face-off at the popular Suburban Square shopping center where some of the rival demonstrators attempted to drown out each other with chants.
Protesters in support of Palestine, mainly from Haverford College, hold a Ceasefire Now banner as a group of counterprotesters in support of Israel stand across the street, separated by a police line in Ardmore on Saturday.Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators staged simultaneous rallies in Ardmore on Saturday afternoon that — although unusual in the Philadelphia region — underscored the deeply emotional and persistently polarized divide over the Israel-Hamas war.
Akintade Asala, 20, a Villanova University student, said Israel had long since crossed the line of reasonable retaliation for the 1,200 people killed and about 250 kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7.“That was a tragedy and an atrocity, and we condemn that,” Asala said, “but at the same time, the Israel government has responded by killing 30 times the number of people in a couple months.”
“We’re peace advocates, and now we’re heartbroken, because now we don’t know who we can have peace with,” Ofer said. “It’s a very impossible situation.”take a stand against what he described as the hateful rhetoric often espoused at pro-Palestinian marches. “I refuse to let Zionists paint all Jews as Zionism,” she said. “Zionism is not Judaism. We need a cease-fire.”
Israel faces mounting condemnation from the United Nations and dozens of countries as its military offensive presses into Rafah, a city holding more than half of Gaza’s population, according to the
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