In Washington, DC and in cities across the US on Monday, demonstrators, largely led by Jews and Palestinians, used an annual holiday honouring US service members who lost their lives in war to highlight Israeli airstrikes on Rafah over the weekend. Under the dark clouds of a growing storm on the east coast, a Jewish-led group of several dozen gathered by the Washington Monument in anticipation of the annual Memorial Day parade down Constitution Avenue in the nation’s capital. Organisers of the demonstration used the occasion to highlight their grievances of US taxpayer money not being sufficie…