Chicago Anti-Israel DNC Protest Groups Handed Loss By Federal Judge

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Potentially violent anti-Israel agitators were handed a major loss this week as they plan to disrupt the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Four groups seeking to organize protests – the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Committee, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC, and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network – asked for parade permits giving them authorization to march over an expanded area.

The week the judge firmly rejected their claim that the city's preferred protest route violates their First Amendment rights. (RELATED: Report: Pro-Palestine Protestors Plan Demonstrations For Democratic National Convention)

The groups requested to take their protest nearer to the United Center, one of two locations for the DNC next week, and through a street that the Secret Service and local law enforcement planners have chosen to block off during the convention as part of the secured perimeter.

Chicago lawyers told the judge that the city had already granted concessions to the organizers, including allowing them to get closer to the United Center, FOX 32 Chicago reported.

The judge denied all four permits and told the groups to use a different route, proposed by the city of Chicago, according to court filings.

The groups sued the city and its transportation commissioner, alleging First Amendment violations, and asked for a preliminary injunction and for permission to march closer to the United Center.

Law enforcement sources previously told Fox News Digital that the original plan would have kept protesters out of sight and sound.

“We are going to basically never see a protester or rioters, period,” one source said before the court fight. “The convention sites are completely cordoned off. There will be nobody that is not authorized.”

The DNC will take place August 19 through August 22 and anti-Israel organizers are expecting “tens of thousands” of people to show up to demonstrate. 

Chicago has hosted more major party political conventions than any other city – 14 Republican conventions and 11 Democratic ones between 1860 and 1996, according to the Chicago History Museum.

The infamous 1968 Democratic Convention nominated Hubert Humphrey, who went on to lose to Richard Nixon. During that same time, thousands of Anti-Vietnam protesters flooded the streets and eventually clashed with police officers resulting in nearly 700 arrests and 200 injured officers.

“I think people really need to see it as the equivalent of the 1968 DNC in Chicago,” Deanna Othman, a resident of Little Palestine, Chicago, which is home to a large population of Palestinian-Americans, told the Washington Post.