Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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.



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


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

1 comment:

Shlomo Ben Hungstien said...

Ya know what? This posting, especially the photos with the signs featuring the usual “Jewish controlled media” and money equalling loyalty to Israel narratives makes me even happier with how Super Tuesday went. It’s so pathetic how tone deaf Bernie is to left wing anti-semitism.