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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI, NOV. 27, 2023 ~ Dozens of protestors gathered outside Sen. Gary Peters‘ (D-MI) home Sunday, who laid out prop body bags on the street and demanded him to support a permanent ceasefire of Israel‘s bombardment on Gaza and end its occupation of Palestinian territory.
Israel and Hamas extended their temporary truce by two days Monday afternoon, with the initial four-day truce expected to end later in the evening. However, the pro-Palestinian protestors said a ceasefire is needed to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and that they have received silence from Peters’ office on his support of Israel’s government, prompting them to deliver a letter to his home in Bloomfield Hills.
“This is not a game,” said activist Lexi Zeidan to WXYZ News. “You do not give people a pause to take their breath, to then go back and get carpet-bombed.“
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Pro-Palestine activists are currently outside U.S. Sen. Gary Peters’ house in Bloomfield Township urging him to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/fvLESdxPNb
— Sam Robinson (@samueljrob) November 26, 2023
(CONTINUED) Michigan Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow responded to a thread on X, formerly Twitter, by Axios Detroit reporter Sam Robinson, asking people to “please don’t protest at people’s homes.” She added that these types of protests might scare people from running for public office in the future and that she thinks it is not an effective way to sway a politician to a political viewpoint.
Pro-Palestinian protests calling for a permanent ceasefire sprouted across Michigan over the weekend, including hundreds of protestors gathering at the steps of the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing. Since Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, its bombing campaign on Gaza over 14,500 Palestinians have died in the bombardment, many of them women and children.
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Honestly, please don’t protest at people’s homes. I don’t want to see “now go to Republicans’ homes.” Just don’t do it.
I talk to people who I think would be great elected officials all the time. I encourage them to run. A few years ago, the most common no response would be, “I…— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) November 26, 2023
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