Anti-Israel agitators gather overnight outside home of Jewish Dem lawmaker

Rep. Brad Schneider's office accused agitators of 'disturbing and traumatizing families in the darkness of night'
Anti-Israel agitators gathered outside the home of Jewish Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., in the early hours of Saturday.

Schneider, who lives in the quiet Jewish suburb of Highland Park north of Chicago, was the target of a loud protest that took place roughly 2:30 in the morning.

Video from the protest shows roughly 40 keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators with their faces covered blaring sirens, banging drums and holding up banners "Schneider defunded UNRWA, We charge genocide" and "Israel bombs, Illinois pays." Members of UNRWA, short for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, were accused of assisting Hamas terrorist in their attack against Israel on Oct. 7.