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Wednesday
May252011

Hospitalized for heckling Bibi

The Emperor’s clothes are still on, for now (while his heckler is roughed up, hospitalized):

There on Capitol Hill, Netanyahu still has friends like Senator Chuck Schumer, who told a Jewish radio program that “One of my roles, very important in the United States Senate, is to be a shomer [guard]—to be a or the shomer Yisrael [guard of Israel]. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body." With friends like these wrapped around his little finger, no wonder Netanyahu’s forcible denunciations of international law were met with such rapturous approbation by Members of Congress who applauded his rejectionism dozens of times.

This bonhomie was punctuated only once during Netanyahu’s hour-long speech, when a lone and courageous activist—Rae Abileah—from CODEPINK, disrupted it. CODEPINK organized a series of events and protests—“Move Over AIPAC”—to coincide with the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last weekend. From the gallery, Abileah shouted “No more occupation, stop Israel[i] war crimes, equal rights for Palestinians, occupation is indefensible.”

Her protest was quickly shut down in a “hey rube” moment by AIPAC attendees in the gallery who assaulted and tackled her before she was hauled away by police, causing injuries to her neck and shoulders requiring hospitalization. At the same time, Members of Congress joined the AIPAC carnie thuggery by shouting down Abileah with boos before quickly resuming to feed out of Netanyahu’s hand.

Reader Comments (2)

It is beyond me how the congress act so much like cheerfull fawning kids. Lots of evil monstrous kids out there from what i understand from this post..Why should I be surprised..
I could'nt watch the whole speach of Netanyahu, all the clapping was too ridiculous: They actually reminded me of the the Syrian parlament (also known as clowns or puppetts) a couple of weeks ago clapping just as ridiculously at Bashar's first speach since the Syrian protests.

May 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM | Unregistered CommenterNajwa

The Move Over AIPAC campaign was really great, especially the flash mob at Union Station http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pU5aZmYbM .

I am so proud to see young American women defending the rights of others, even when their own rights are under attack in Congress.

May 31, 2011 at 1:30 AM | Unregistered CommenterDidite
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