Anti-Semitism at the AIPAC protests

Last week, AIPAC held its annual policy conference in Washington DC, attended by record crowds.  Over 18,000 people attended,  with the goal of strengthening the relationship between Israel and the United States.

This year, as in the previous years, a small group of protesters gathered outside, coordinated by Abbas Hamideh of the extremist Al Awda group.

Palestinian protesters scream (in barely comprehensible English) at Jewish attendees of the AIPAC event in Washington DC.

“Hitler will come back! Burn all you! The Holocaust will come back!”

But the media tells you these are the good guys 🧐pic.twitter.com/3cRjOZrsgD

— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) March 2, 2020

Waving a Palestinian flag, one of the protesters taunted the crowd attending the conference.

"The Holocaust will come back to you,"

"You're going to get burned if you don't give us the land!" "Hitler will come back!
Burned, all of you!"

The Puerto Rican born Hamideh beamed silently in the background.

Abbas Hamideh laughing at anti-semitic tirade. Photo from Israellycool

Later Abbas himself led chants of "Jerusalem is Arab. Haifa is Arab. Jaffa is Arab".

An additional group including Rich Siegel of "Deir Yassin Remembered” (designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group)  took some time to protest the US Holocaust Museum.

The protests featured the usual marginal characters and garden variety antisemitism.

Also seen protesting AIPAC- the  Westboro Baptist Church

So yesterday there were pro-Palestinian protesters outside AIPAC saying Hitler should have finished the job, today we have the Westboro Baptist Church (I think) weirdos saying we’ll get divine retribution. pic.twitter.com/YYhk3ht1lx

— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) March 2, 2020

And while the protests outside screamed for Israel's destruction, it was standing room only at AIPAC in such sessions as “Improving Life in Gaza: Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation” with Professor Tareq Abu Hamed of the  Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, and "Promoting Palestinian Prosperity", with the founder of  Sadara Ventures