About one hundred pro-Palestinian insurrectionists occupied a federal House office building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, chanting “ceasefire now” and “let Gaza live.”
The insurrectionists, many who wore face masks and dressed in black and flew a banner demanding that Israel stop defending itself from rocket attacks against civilians, occupied the ground floor of the Cannon Office Building, one of three main buildings where congressional staff and lawmakers work.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib was leading the protest:
Hamas Caucus Leader @RepRashida is leading the current insurrection on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/AejUJrLbix
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 18, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was on the scene and noted a double standard between the pro-Palestinian insurrectionists and the protestors on January 6. “There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill,” her video caption read of the event. “They are claiming they want peace but they want money to go to terrorists.”
Watch video here (credit: Bradley Jaye/Breitbart News):
Greene said she did not know why Capitol Police allowed the insurrectionists inside the building. “I don’t know,” she replied to an individual in the video:
There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill https://t.co/hBMIcv3pqW
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 18, 2023
As the insurrection continued, photos show Capitol Police apprehending the insurrectionists and removing them from the building:
Bradley Jaye/Breitbart News
Watch video here (credit: Bradley Jaye/Breitbart News):
“If it wasn’t obvious yet, Insurrection — when conservatives demonstrate … Protest — when liberals demonstrate,” said conservative commentator Luca Cacciatore.
If it wasn’t obvious yet,
Insurrection – when conservatives demonstrate
Protest – when liberals demonstrate https://t.co/STXkRH0742— Luca H. Cacciatore (@LucaHCacciatore) October 18, 2023
Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram posted a photo of Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) “standing silently with an Israeli flag” as the pro-Palestinian insurrection played out below:
Rep Brandon Williams standing above the anti-Israel protest, standing silently with an Israeli flag above the demonstration in the Cannon House Office Building pic.twitter.com/BjZqODmWHs
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 18, 2023
The protest came after a hospital in Gaza was blown up on Tuesday. After the blast, multiple pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike.
Several leaders also rushed to blame Israel for the hospital blast, even though multiple pieces of evidence suggested the contrary as authorities gathered information. Among them was Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and radical Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
