Vice President Harris on Thursday forcefully condemned protests outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., during a speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the display “despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors.”
“I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews,” Harris said in a statement.
“Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation.” “I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way,” she added.
Harris — whose husband is Jewish — said she supports peaceful protest but rejected antisemitism, which has sharply risen in the U.S. since last October’s terrorist attacks in Israel.
The sharp statement comes as the vice president has emerged as the likely Democratic nominee for November after President Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed her to take his place atop the ticket. Harris is set to meet Thursday afternoon with Netanyahu in a one-on-one meeting.
The Israeli leader will also meet separately with Biden and former President Trump, the GOP nominee for the White House. Demonstrators took down an American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag Wednesday in protest of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
At one point, protesters also burned the U.S. flag before someone ran into the crowd and snatched it off the ground.
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It is very important that anti-genocide protestors do not support Hamas because Hamas kills civilians (?)
@RedistrictingTrinity2yrs2Y
Hamas is literally an organization whose ultimate aim is also genocide, so yeah, anti-genocide protestors probably shouldn’t be supporting them
The mildest criticism of Israel's genocide gets you called a "hamas lover" though.
@RedistrictingTrinity2yrs2Y
well that’s just changing the goalposts in a situation where some people were actually openly supporting Hamas, graffitiing “Hamas are comin” and chanting about killing Jews. a minority, sure, but that’s gonna earn condemnation from *checks notes* a candidate for US president.
@FinickyH0u5eDemocrat2yrs2Y
No debating with these Gaza protesters.
Debates define democracies.
Debates are alien to mobs. Gaza protesters genuinely embody mobs.
@CivilRightsRalphGreen2yrs2Y
Harris’ inner circle is filled with NGO veterans who excel at using cloying professional activist language. it was one of the things that actually hampered her 2020 campaign. will be interesting to see how they run defense for this stuff. I bet we’ll see some DISGUSTING stuff!
@W3lfareCodGreen2yrs2Y
"It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 92,000, an astonishing 4.2% of Gaza's population"
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