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Hundreds of individuals took to the streets of Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handle to the US Congress.
Safety was tightened forward of Netanyahu’s fourth handle to American lawmakers and far of the Capitol space was closed to the general public.
However nothing prevented folks from protesting Netanyahu’s insurance policies within the Gaza Strip and demanding a cease-fire within the besieged enclave.
Waving Palestinian flags, protestors chanted “Free Palestine” and “Stop-fire now.” Additionally they held indicators saying “Arrest Netanyahu,” “Stand with Palestine! Finish the Occupation Now!” and “Genocide is Our Pink Line.”
One of many protestors, McKenzie Manns, informed Anadolu that it is “wild” that Netanyahu is visiting the Congress, saying “he is committing a genocide proper now.”
“I believe it’s much more insane that our Congress welcomed him and allowed him to set foot on this nation, and that is why we’re right here, as a result of you possibly can’t homicide a complete folks after which come and current speeches as should you’re an excellent youngster,” Manns added.
She mentioned America mustn’t speak to a “conflict prison,” including “America lastly stands for fairness and inclusion, and it is time that we are saying, like, should you kill folks, we’re not going to speak to you.”
Jane Hirschmann, a spokesperson for Jewish Voice for Peace, informed Anadolu that on Tuesday, protestors took over the Cannon Rotunda contained in the Capitol constructing to ship a message to President Joe Biden that “he should not arm Israel.”
“He cannot name for a cease-fire after which ship over 500-pound bombs. Only in the near past, and he despatched over $14 billion (to Israel)…We, the USA, are (offering the) funding,” she added.
Stressing that she is a daughter of Holocaust survivors, Hirschmann mentioned: “I do know what it means. I do know once I see a holocaust and a genocide, By no means once more. By no means once more for everybody…Each life is sacred, and that features the Palestinians, and that is why we’re right here as we speak.”
Scott McCullion mentioned he has been protesting towards Israel and Netanyahu for greater than 15 years.
“I believe he should be arrested,” he mentioned, including America is “complicit in genocide.”
– ‘We should always cease this occupation in its entirety’
A Jewish protestor, Rabbi Dovid Feldman, informed Anadolu he’s visiting Washington together with a conference of non secular Rabbi students and college students from New York and New Jersey.
“We’re disturbed after we are seeing this conflict prison standing, supposedly representing all Jews, and claiming that he supposedly represents the Jewish faith,” Feldman mentioned.
He pressured that Judaism and Zionism aren’t the identical.
“He (Netanyahu) comes with claims that Jews are at risk from their supposed enemy, the Palestinian folks, as if the Palestinians simply need to kill all Jews and drive them into the ocean,” Feldman mentioned, including it’s “false propaganda aimed toward brainwashing politicians to blindly assist the motion he represents.”
Feldman mentioned he needs folks to grasp that Palestine is just not the enemy.
“We lived in peace with Palestine earlier than the Twenties, earlier than the invention of Zionism. The issue right here is the occupation of Palestine. The distinction of religions is just not the trigger to the issues.
“This occupation is, sadly destroying the folks of Palestine and endangering the Jewish folks. If we actually are involved for a greater future, we must always cease this occupation in its entirety,” he mentioned.
Israel, flouting a UN Safety Council decision demanding a right away cease-fire, has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive towards Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 assault by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Greater than 39,100 Palestinians have since been killed, largely ladies and kids, and over 90,000 injured, in accordance with native well being authorities.
Over 9 months into the Israeli onslaught, huge tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and medication.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, which ordered it to right away halt its army operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the conflict earlier than it was invaded on Might 6.
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