Shame of the Nation: Netanyahu lying to US Congress, gets 58 standing ovations.
Hundreds of Jewish anti-genocide protesters arrested in D.C. Harris attacks Union Station protesters as 'unpatriotic."
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Hundreds of Jews were arrested Tuesday in D.C. for peacefully protesting genocide. What could be more antisemitic than that?
The protest, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, a national Jewish anti-Zionist organization, included rabbis, students, Israeli Americans, and descendants of Holocaust survivors. The group is “horrified and dismayed” that elected officials will meet with Netanyahu, said Sonya Meyerson-Knox, a group spokeswoman.
As Capitol Police officers zip-tied protesters, the group recited the Shema, a Jewish prayer, and chanted “Free Palestine” and “Let Gaza live.”
Shame of the nation
While thousands of demonstrators swelled outside the Capitol, protesting the killings of more than 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, demagogic war criminal Netanyahu spoke before Congress, hiding behind Jewish history, equating Judaism with Zionism, and spouting lie after lie, Trump-style.
Instead of being arrested the moment he deplaned, as he should have been, he became the first world leader to address a joint meeting of Congress four times.
While more than 100 elected officials refused to attend the joint session, most who did attend cheered, even while Netanyahu was calling his American critics “useful idiots.” The Israeli prime minister received no fewer than 58 standing ovations, a scene that will be replayed over and over to the embarrassment and anger of most Americans who oppose Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Scores of Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Bernie Sanders, boycotted the speech to denounce what they view as Netanyahu’s emboldening of an extremist far-right faction, fueling violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and thwarting a potential two-state solution.
Sen. Bernie Sanders called Netanyahu “a war criminal,” adding, “We must do everything in our power to end the war in Gaza, and provide immediate humanitarian relief to the people who are suffering there.”
In a bit of ass-covering, VP (now candidate) Harris denied her absence was meant as a sign of protest. Rather, she claimed she had previously scheduled a Wednesday trip to Indianapolis. One can only imagine a VP, who presides over the Senate, scheduling a lunch date for the same day and hour as a joint session of Congress with a foreign leader speaking.
Despite the protests, Harris and Biden are meeting privately with Netanyahu this week. Harris issued an official statement today, echoing Netanyahu’s speech and attacking the DC protesters at Union Station, calling them “unpatriotic” and “antisemitic.”
Netanyahu went so far as to claim that there have been “practically” no civilian fatalities in Rafah, besides one incident. The “incident” Netanyahu referenced occurred in May and killed at least 45 people at a camp for displaced Palestinians. The airstrike injured more than 200 after a fire broke out at the camp following the strike, most of them women and children, according to the CNN fact-checker.
Profile in Courage — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who the House has censured over her support for Palestine, held up a black sign during Netanyahu's address that read "war criminal" and "guilty of genocide."
The first strike against Harris. The protesters are anything but unpatriotic. 39,000 dead. All military???
That's a pretty f*cked up statement by Harris. Really sorry to see her take that tac.
Calling protestors unpatriotic - jeez; not a good step, Mz VP