🚨BREAKING: Anti-Israel protesters shut down Senate cafeteria shouting “This is the House of the people, the Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats.” pic.twitter.com/dYQzF30O4d
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 9, 2024
Large senate cafeteria is shut down due to large protests by pro Gaza protesters.
Chanting “Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats”
I'm told Police are arresting and escorting some out.
Video sent to me by senate staffer: pic.twitter.com/FOQTVyEDGc
— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) April 9, 2024
So, is this a new January 6th?
Are these people going to be sent to rot in a special political prison for months and years for having violated the sacred nature of our sweet democracy?
It seems only consistent that this would be the case.
Dozens of anti-Israel protesters were arrested Tuesday after storming through a Senate office building and briefly causing the cafeteria to be shut down, according to Capitol Police.
The mob of demonstrators marched inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building at around 12:30 p.m. while chanting phrases such as “Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats!”
“Approximately 50 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building this afternoon. It is illegal to demonstrate inside any of the Congressional Buildings,” Capitol Police told The Post.
(The people who make these rules are the same people who whine about Tiananmen Square experiencing a “massacre.” Just so you understand.)
Christians for a Free Palestine took credit for orchestrating the demonstration alongside CodePink, a self-described grassroots feminist organization notorious for causing disruptions at numerous congressional hearings.
“Over 50 Christian leaders from across the US nonviolently blockaded the Senate Cafeteria to pressure the Senate and their staffers to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, restore aid to UNRWA, and end military funding to Israel,” Christians for a Free Palestine told The Post.
“They announced that they would not leave or let anyone get food in the Senate Cafeteria until nourishing food is sent to Gaza and the U.S. stops funding the bombs that have killed over 33,000 Palestinians.”
Christians for a Free Palestine estimated that roughly 55 activists, including about 30 ordained clergy, were detained by authorities when asked by The Post.
We’re going to have to wait and see what the narrative about this one is.
It would not be shocking if pro-Palestine protesters were deemed “the new domestic terrorists,” and hunted like pro-Trump people were a few years ago.
However, it’s also possible that won’t happen.
Protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza repeatedly interrupted a Tuesday Senate hearing attended by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Charles Brown.
“Stop killing my people,” one demonstrator said. “Stop funding Israel.”
Gaza… pic.twitter.com/ZHJKIbdbc8
— The Hill (@thehill) April 9, 2024