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Crowd Counting Consortium: Israel/Palestine Protest Data Dashboards
To make it easier to find up-to-date information on pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protest activity in the United States since October 7, 2023, the Crowd Counting Consotium recently created a pair of interactive data dashboards separately covering the two.
To make it easier to find up-to-date information on pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protest activity in the United States since October 7, 2023, we recently created a pair of interactive data dashboards separately covering the two. You can access the dashboards by clicking on these links.
Pro-Palestine Protests in the U.S. Since October 7, 2023
Pro-Israel Protests in the U.S. Since October 7, 2023
Both dashboards show an interactive map on the landing page.
- Click on the marker for an event to see details on its location, size, and participant claims. Claims that begin with “for”, “against”, or “in ____ of/with” are summaries produced by CCC coders; all others are verbatim captures of participant signs, banners, or chants (claims ending in “!”).
- You can also use buttons to filter the data according to one or more of several criteria, including things like whether or not any protesters were arrested, the presence of counter-protesters, whether the event took place at a university or college or other school, and whether the event included any civil disobedience or direct action.
To see summary statistics about the relevant set of events, click on the “Summary Plots” button in the menu on the left. It shows a count of events, the sum of the observed crowd sizes, and a count of the different cities and towns in which the events have occurred.
If you explore the data and think we’ve either missed an event or misrepresented one, please use our anonymous online form to submit relevant public information, and we’ll review and amend as required.
We expect to update the underlying data on a daily or near-daily basis for the forseeable future, and the upper limit of the data range available in the controls will always let you know when it was last refreshed.
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