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Chris McGreal in New York

Israeli peaceniks in the US didn’t find a home in the Gaza protests. So they started their own

people hold signs calling for a ceasefire
People hold signs calling for a ceasefire at the Israel Day parade in New York on 2 June. Photograph: Adam Gray/Getty Images

As New York’s annual parade in support of Israel worked its way down Fifth Avenue on Sunday, a group of Israeli citizens shouted from the sidelines.

They waved signs demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the Israelis held by Hamas. They chanted “shame” as two rightwing Israeli cabinet ministers, who have defended the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians civilians, passed by.

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