This is what it sounded like outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. last week.

One of many protests in cities around the country directed not just at the Israeli government.

But at an American president swept into office on a wave of progressive support.

Demonstrators also showed up at a Ford plant in Michigan last week.

Where President Biden was visiting.

So we know that Joel Biden isn't the neighborhood right now.

Iman Sala helped organize the protest.

She told one of our reporters that in her activism, she felt ties to the growing power of racial justice movements in the U.S.

When we talk about police here and Black Lives here, we're also relating that to Palestinian lives and Palestine.

We're seeing a lot of the same tactics that they use to oppress the people in these villages or in these cities overseas,

being used here on the streets of Detroit.

Consider this.

Amid a tenuous ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, progressive activists are putting new pressure on Democrats to support Palestinians.

And that pressure is shifting the conversation.

From NPR, I'm Adi Cornish.

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American presidents have long supported Israel.

Republicans,

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