Pro-Hamas protesters burn flags on Capitol Hill during Netanyahu speech, while some Congress members wore Palestinian activist merch
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington, D.C., to deliver a speech regarding strategies to address the mounting threat of Iran. It is the first time since the October 7 attacks he has addressed Congress.
Unfortunately, his welcome was less than warm.
Not only did Vice President Kamala Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), as well as a number of Democratic lawmakers miss Netanyahu’s speech, but “chaos” ensued on Capitol Hill as thousands of pro-Hamas protesters gathered to wreak havoc.
Julio Rosas, Blaze Media’s national correspondent, who was in D.C. to witness the bedlam, joins Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel to relay what he saw.
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“Initially the protesters that were against Netanyahu speaking to Congress today tried to get close to the Capitol building, [but] police blocked their path because they didn't want them to get close. That resulted in clashes; police had to use pepper spray. Eventually, the crowd started to move on,” says Rosas, adding that the mob “marched around in the Capitol Hill neighborhood before coming to Union Station.”
“U.S. Park police moved in to stop protesters from tearing down the American flags that are normally placed in Columbus Circle. There was more fighting; more arrests were made. The Park police withdrew after they secured the American flag and the arrestees, but as they were withdrawing, people were chasing them; they were heckling them.”
Then “the protesters tore down the remaining American flags, and they replaced them with Palestinian flags,” Rosas reports.
“Why isn’t this an insurrection?” asks Jill, pointing out the glaring hypocrisy.
“Because the Democratic Party and their media friends have decided that it’s not,” says Blaze Media’s senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford, adding, “What's striking about what we're seeing here — the flags being torn down, the cops being attacked, flags being burned — is how many members of Congress stand with these people.”
“The members of Congress who actually did show up, which was not a lot of them ... some of [the Democrat members] wore some of the activist T-shirts that you actually see in the parade,” he continues.
“Take the image ... of protesters ripping down and burning the American flag and put it next to Donald Trump with blood spotted across his face, putting his fist in the air next to the American flag, and ask people which side they want to choose.”
To hear more analysis of the chaos in D.C., watch the episode above.
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Huge pro-Palestine protest surrounds White House, smoke bombs set off, progressives demand 'butcher' Biden be arrested for war crimes
Pro-Palestinian activists demanding an end to the war in Gaza staged a massive protest that surrounded the White House, and there were smoke bombs ignited. Progressives vehemently demanded that President Joe Biden be arrested for war crimes for the U.S. involvement in the Israel-Hamas War.
Thousands of demonstrators descended on Washington on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
Julio Rosas – National Correspondent for Blaze Media – covered the protest and posted videos on his X social media account.
The crowd chanted: "Hey Joe Biden, you’re a sellout! Pack your bags and get the hell out! Biden you're a liar! We demand a ceasefire! How many kids have you killed today!"
Rosas reported that anti-Israel protesters were holding a banner that read: "Jihad of victory or martyrdom."
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Rosas also reported from the ground that the protesters "formed a mob and chased U.S. Park Police and Secret Service out of Lafayette Square after officers apparently tried to arrest someone." He noted that law enforcement was forced out of the park and retreated to "the boundaries of the protest."
Video shows demonstrators shouting: "F*** the police!"
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We got the guillotine you better run!
Video shows vandals defacing the statue of General Comte de Rochambeau in D.C.'s Lafayette Park with graffiti.
Footage from the pro-Palestine protest shows smoke bombs ignited outside of the White House.
One protester held up a sign that read: "We got the guillotine you better run!"
The "Surround the White House" protest was partly planned by progressive Code Pink – a self-described "feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect resources into healthcare, education, green jobs, and other life-affirming programs."
Code Pink said of the protest:
June 8 marks eight months of US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and marks the 54th anniversary of the occupation of Gaza. A month ago, Biden said that the invasion of Rafah was a red line. But now, the invasion of Rafah has continued for weeks, has expanded to the entire Gaza Strip, Biden's red line is nowhere to be seen. Instead of following through and stopping military aid to Israel, Biden has authorized billions more in weapons shipments to be used to kill and massacre Palestinians. Biden can't draw the line, but we can. On June 8, we will come together from across the country and surround the White House. Wearing red, and raising our demands high, we will show the world that we are the red line. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.
A member of Code Pink wore a large Biden face and was dressed in a black and white prison uniform.
Code Pink posted a video of the Biden impersonator running and squealing as he is being chased down and arrested in a political skit. The Biden impressionist is seen crying as he is being hauled away in handcuffs.
The post was captioned: "ARREST BUTCHER BIDEN! Outside of the White House today, we 'arrested' the war criminal Biden."
The group also "arrested" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allegations of war crimes committed in Palestine.
The Secret Service knew about the protests ahead of time and had erected anti-scale fencing.
U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News, "In preparation for the events this weekend in Washington D.C. that have the potential for large crowds to gather, additional public safety measures, including anti-scale fencing, have been put in place near the White House complex."
President Biden was in France on Saturday, where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters wear yellow stars to Holocaust memorial march at Auschwitz
During Holocaust Remembrance Week’s March of the Living, pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted a remembrance march to honor the victims of Nazi atrocities at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camps.
The demonstrators chanted slogans, displayed Palestinian banners and flags that said “stop genocide,” and some wore yellow stars that appeared to resemble the ones Nazi authorities forced Jews to wear after the German invasion of Poland in 1939.
“Nothing is sacred anymore,” Mark Levin says, disgusted. “Israel is defending itself, and it is a constant defense. They’re attacked, they defend themselves. They’re attacked, they defend themselves.”
Meanwhile, Joe Biden asked them to stand down.
Levin says this “sends a massive propaganda message throughout the world.”
That message being that “it’s okay to slaughter Israelis and Jews. In the end, you’ll survive — particularly if you’re leading these efforts. In fact, the United States will come to your defense.”
“As long as Joe Biden’s in the Oval Office and Blinken is Secretary of State. Indeed, they’re funding Iran, which is funding the terrorists. Indeed, they’re funding Iran’s nuclear program, which is aimed at us. So, just keep at it, and so they’re keeping at it.”
Now, Levin says, “anti-Semitism is spreading all over the world, and in the United States because we imported people into this country who hate us.”
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