Rep. George Santos (R-NY) confronted two anti-Israel protesters on Friday in a House office building after they accosted him and several other members.
The two protesters, one of whom said his name was Shabd Singh, spent most of the afternoon on Friday walking up to lawmakers in the Longworth House Office Building during the speaker vote and shouting at them. They shouted and asked about what lawmakers were going to do about the “ongoing genocide of Palestinians by Israelis.” They also recorded interactions.
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The pair of protesters latched on to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and followed him shouting questions. During that interaction, they saw Santos, who was carrying his staffer’s 2-month-old baby at the time. Singh then left McCarthy and got in Santos’s face and started shouting at him. Santos then walked into an office in his vicinity to get away.
U.S. Capitol Police then confronted the two protesters, at which point Santos ran up and confronted them himself.
“You are a terrorist sympathizer,” Santos yelled at them. “You are human scum. You have no business in this building.”
Singh told the Washington Examiner they were trying to get lawmakers on the record about where they stand and spread a message.
“We are here to say that we want an end to the mass murder of civilians,” Singh said. “We do not want the continuation of the policy by Israel to bomb civilians with impunity with [closed] borders and stopping supplies from entering and exiting the territory of Gaza.”
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Hamas attacked Israel, and the actions Singh mentioned have been in response to the terrorist organization’s invasion.
Singh was later detained by Capitol Police.
