by Nick Gilbertson and Joel B. Pollak
The pro-Palestinian protesters who staged an “insurrection” on Wednesday by illegally occupying a Capitol office building were led, in part, by a group that calls itself “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP) but has a history of supporting Palestinian terrorists.
As Breitbart News reported:
Pro-Palestinian protesters, who want a ceasefire that would benefit the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and staged a protest inside the Cannon Rotunda that one observer likened to an “insurrection.”
The Cannon Rotunda is part of the Cannon House Office Building. It is separate from the iconic Capitol building but is considered part of the Capitol complex. It is the oldest congressional office building on Capitol Hill.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who falsely accused Israel of bombing a Gaza hospital Tuesday, addressed the protesters.
As The Hill reported, three protesters were arrested for assaulting police officers.
Arrests in the Canon Rotunda and the rolling road closures are ongoing.
Amongst these arrests, three people have been arrested and charged with Assault on a Police Officer during processing.
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) October 18, 2023
The demonstration, it noted, was “organized jointly by the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow” — both radical left-wing organizations that oppose the State of Israel.
IfNotNow supports radical anti-Israel Reps. Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). In addition, as Breitbart News noted in 2019:
IfNotNow seeks to disrupt the connections that many American Jewish organizations have with Israel. It blames American Jewish support for Israel for the persistence of the Israeli occupation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), though most Palestinians in that territory live under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.
In addition to staging sit-ins and protests, members of IfNotNow attempt to infiltrate Jewish summer camps and tours of Israel, where they launch demonstrations or expose the mainstream Jewish community to anti-Israel propaganda.
In one episode in 2018, members of IfNotNow were arrested while reciting the Kaddish — the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead — near the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, memorializing Palestinians killed in “protests” at the Gaza border. (The vast majority of Palestinians killed were members of Hamas, and they were trying to infiltrate Israel to carry out attacks, not stage a non-violent protest against Israeli policies.)
Recently, JVP spoke at a “Free Palestine” rally in Dearborn, Michigan, that defended Hamas. The JVP representative did not criticize the terror attack against Israelis — but did, ironically, criticize peace agreements between Israel and Arab states.
JVP, as Breitbart News has noted, also invited convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh — responsible for the murders of two Israelis in 1969 — to address its conference in Chicago in 2017 before she was deported for lying to U.S. immigration authorities.
For everyone withdrawing support, saying they stood with us & now they’re removing signs, bye, toodles 👋🏾✌🏾 We’ve always been for Palestinian freedom 🇵🇸 we stood with Rasmea, there’s no way you could have been with us at any point & missed that to be shocked now.
— BLMChicago (@BLMChi) October 12, 2023
Odeh remains an inspirational figure to the radical left in Chicago.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) Chicago chapter took to X to defend Odeh in the aftermath of Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel, which left over 1,400 dead and well over 4,000 wounded, with more than 200 taken hostage.
“For everyone withdrawing support, saying they stood with us & now they’re removing signs, bye, toodles,” BLM Chicago posted on X. “We’ve always been for Palestinian freedom…we stood with Rasmea, there’s no way you could have been with us at any point & missed that to be shocked now.”
Odeh, who served ten years of a life sentence for the Super Market bombing murders of Leon Kaner, 21, and Edward Joffe, 22, was released in a prisoner swap for a captured Israeli soldier and subsequently made her way to the United States after allegedly lying to immigration officials, as Breitbart News noted.
In 2017, she cut a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors to avoid prison time and leave the country. She claimed the Department of Justice, led at that time by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was “too racist” to bother challenging in court, as Breitbart News noted.
She found herself at the center of anti-Trump demonstrations and issued a defiant address in Chicago, Illinois, before her departure from America under the plea agreement, as Breitbart News reported.
In additional tweets in the aftermath of the attacks, BLM Chicago accused Israel of “terrorism” and “genocide” while also posting a now-deleted image of a silhouette with a parachute bearing a Palestinian flag, and attempted to walk the pro-terrorism post back the next day, as the Daily Beast noted.
#BLM #Chicago posted their support for #Palestine pic.twitter.com/MC3MOjUFLB
— The Daily Sneed™ (@Tr00peRR) October 10, 2023
Yesterday we sent out msgs that we aren’t proud of. We stand with Palestine & the people who will do what they must to live free. Our hearts are with, the grieving mothers, those rescuing babies from rubble, who are in danger of being wiped out completely🇵🇸♥️🖤💚
— BLMChicago (@BLMChi) October 11, 2023
We were born broke, we’ve been broke, all our lives would be more lucrative if we left this alone. But we’re just that dedicated to freedom & justice. All the money in the world couldn’t make us support Israel’s terrorism, but if they’d stop the genocide, we’d be friends https://t.co/Q3eEeJB2gZ
— BLMChicago (@BLMChi) October 12, 2023
The dysfunction of Black Lives Matter as an organization at large was on full display in another post. BLM Chicago shared a screen grab from what looked to be a Facebook page called “Blk LivesMatter,” which stated that the BLM Chicago account is “falsely claiming to be on behalf of the BLM Organization” and that it is an “independently run Twitter account” operated by one person.
They say their for Peace but their behavior shows us the total opposite
Simply put, terrorists support other terrorists and terrorism. BLM/ANTIFA are terrorists who threatened to commit further acts of terror (after three months of riots and looting) if Chauvin wasn’t convicted of “murdering” the career criminal and scumbag, George Floyd.
This is the company the Democrats keep. Democrats fully supported BLM violence and refused to even admit ANTIFA exists until their interests opposed the interests of some Jewish Democrats; now… NOW they recognize the truth. Well, what the F**K did they expect from anti-Semites?
I wonder if Tlaib believes bombing a hospital is such a terrible thing once she learned (but refuses to acknowledge) that Hamas itself bombed it?
It is being discovered that the obama/biden regime is chocked full of terrorist sympathizers for hamas, hezbollah and the moslem brotherhood.
It is on scale with the post WWII infiltration by communists within the state department.
Not only are we a country under invasion at the southern border, we are a country with a government not aligned with American principles.
God help us
There’s a whole lotta purging that needs to be done.
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