What Cori Bush's loss means for pro-Palestine voices in US Congress

US Congresswoman Cori Bush has lost her primary election to the Aipac-backed candidate and St Louis City prosecutor, Wesley Bell, in what Palestinian and progressive activists say is a devastating setback to the burgeoning pro-Palestinian movement in Congress that has been building up over the past few years.

Bush, a nurse and community activist from St Louis, Missouri, who spent more than a year on the frontlines of the Ferguson protests against police brutality in 2014, was one of the most prominent voices and legislators propping up Palestinian rights, as well as labour and housing issues.

Several weeks into the war on Gaza, and as Democrats and Republicans alike were pushing for Israel to continue its assault on the Palestinian enclave, Bush led a resolution in Congress calling for a ceasefire. Several days into the war, she was calling for an end to US military aid to Israel.

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