Protesters in the Capitol Rotunda. Fox News Digital.
Anti-Israel protesters briefly took over the US Capitol with 300 arrest occurring. Fox News. The protest was by a group called "Jews Say Ceasefire Now" and they demanded a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Around 350 protesters entered the Capitol along with more than 1000 protesting outside. Police arrested the protesters in the Capitol as it is illegal to protest in the Capitol building. Three people were arrested for assaulting police officers.
My Comment:
By the standards set in the persecution of the January 6th protesters these people will rot in jail for years awaiting felony prosecutions. This was an attack on democracy right? Lock these people up and throw away the key right?
We all know that won't happen. At worst the three people that got arrested for assaulting cops will be prosecuted but more likely they will all be released without charges. I don't see there being any major convictions here despite their behavior being identical to the people on January 6th. We have a two tiered justice system now and only certain people are allowed to protest.
The actual protest is fairly baffling. Jews being against Israel is nothing new, many American Jews bizarrely have sympathy for groups like Hamas and hate Israel because of the "colonizer" narrative, which makes zero sense to me in the first place. Why they would stick up for people that hate them is beyond me but isn't that much different than Jewish people supporting Ukraine, despite the huge numbers of Nazis fighting for them against Russia.
The protest wasn't going to accomplish anything anyways. Congress is pretty obviously pro-Israel and is not going to do anything to try and force a cease fire. And even if they were in the mood to do something, there is little evidence that Israel would listen. They consider the Hamas attack to be their equivalent of 9/11 and will do what they can to ensure that it won't happen again. Congress has very little leverage to force a ceasefire.
The protesters will get very little sympathy if they are going to prosecuted. Most people are still on the side of Israel, even after yesterday's hospital incident. Hamas committed several major atrocities that pretty much melted away any sympathy people might have had for them. These protesters, by calling for a cease fire, imply that they are ok with what Hamas did. That's not going to play well.
It also shows the difference between these protesters and January 6th. The January 6th protesters were trying to get some kind of resolution to the worst run election in American history and had a strong argument that it was legit. And they were directly affected by the result of that mess of an election. These people? They are on the same side as terrorists and have no actual link to the people fighting in the war. But one of these groups got the book thrown and them while these protesters will likely be forgiven. That's life in Biden's America.
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