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Codepink Interrupts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu At AIPAC Gala

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Activists from Codepink, the woman-led anti-war group, appeared at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gala last night to protest his position that re-implementing Israel’s borders as they were in 1967 would be “indefensible.”

A press release posted by the group on “Move Over AIPAC” describes their actions and motivation:

The protesters, 5 in all, rose one by one, unfurled banners, and chanted slogans. In response to Netanyahu’s claim that returning to the 1967 borders would be “indefensible,” activists called out that various aspects of Israel’s policy are indefensible. They were escorted out by security, but not before they made a highly visible protest against the theft of Palestinian land, the siege of Gaza, denial of the rights of Palestinian refugees, silencing dissent, and destruction of homes and schools.

“Growing up as the son of Holocaust survivor, I learned that it is everyone’s job to stand up for others when they are persecuted, and I learned what happens when we don’t defend humanity. Now, it is my job to stand up in support of Palestinians, saying, ‘bombing schools is indefensible, bulldozing homes is indefensible, ’” said Jewish American protester Rick Colbath-Hess, 53 from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Also included are three videos from the protest, respectively titled “Occupying Land in Indefensible,” “Silencing Dissent is Indefensible,” and “Bulldozing Homes is Indefensible” – and, thus, using Netanyahu’s own rhetoric against him.

In the video below, you can see several in the crowd cheering as a young woman is forcibly removed from the event after chanting that “silencing dissent is indefensible:”

h/t The Blaze

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  • tatboy

    Somehow I don’t think the will pull the same anti-war shinanigans with the Palistininens (sp).

  • skyfet

    You can always trust the Pinkys to disrupt.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    where in history have we seen the intimidation of Jews before?
    hmmmmmm…….

  • skyfet

    That Security was kinda rough on her, too much for my liking.

  • skyfet

    skoorbekim said:
    where in history have we seen the intimidation of Jews before?
    hmmmmmm…….

    This is madness!

    She’s probably an average female height of 5.4 -5 .5, and was dragged down by a strong man who was joined by more, and you are intimidated by her. Says more about you than cowardice, ya freak.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    skyfet said:
    and you are intimidated by her.

    Skyfet,
    was she flying solo?
    or is there a larger support group?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    skyfet said:
    Says more about you than cowardice, ya freak.

    I am so sorry, you shamed me back in line… there is no historical precedent for thuggish behavior against Jews…
    However,
    I guess size does matter to you…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Skyfet,
    is this the first time you saw a person disrupt an event in support of Israel?

  • tatboy

    skyfet said:
    That Security was kinda rough on her, too much for my liking.

    Really??? Are you serious?

  • Barack Must Go

    The scarest part of Obama’s amerika and his regimes almost total mind control over his ‘ in country ‘ terrorist groups, is the fact that many times, as here, they are women dressed in business attire secreting away subversive home made signs.

    How long, with him destoying all hope in this country, before they are carrying home made bombs?

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    skoorbekim said:
    where in history have we seen the intimidation of Jews before?
    hmmmmmm…….

    Of course paint everyone who disagrees with the Zionists as Nazi’s while ignoring all of their own atrocities……

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    ignoring all of their own atrocities……

    ?!

    Liberals are showing their true colors on this thread… please continue…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Obamabaggers taking their cue from their leader… attack the Jews…

  • Harry Flashman

    Jackie Treehorn said:

    “Of course paint everyone who disagrees with the Zionists as Nazi’s while ignoring all of their own atrocities……”

    What atrocities?

    Having the only modern democracy in the Middle East?

    Allowing women the right to vote AS WELL AS THEIR ARAB /MUSLIM CITIZENS?

    Having Muslim members of the Knesset, their ruling body?

    Putting up a wall to stop people who think they;ll go to paradise if they get on a bus or go into a crowded restaurant and blow up innocent people?

    Securing the border of a tiny sliver of land that sits surrounded by hundreds of millions of sworn enemies who want the dead, dead, dead?

    Stopping “freedom flotillas” at sea who’s only purpose is to arm and supply Hama in Gaza?

    What atrocities are you talking about, you jerk? Name them or shut up.

    We’re on the very edge of another holocaust if Hamas and Hezbollah continue to get the support of idiot politicians like Obama, and you liberals whine about Jewish “atrocities”.

    You’re such punks.

  • WCinWI

    Codepink = Westboro Baptist Church

    Say what?

  • skyfet

    skoorbekim said:
    I am so sorry, you shamed me back in line… there is no historical precedent for thuggish behavior against Jews…
    However,
    I guess size does matter to you…

    I’m embarrassed by you. Tiny middle age woman waving a piece of cloth makes you paranoid for your survival? you need to get yourself checked. She’s the kind of heckler people would ignore on the subway, yet you find her so threatening that you fear another holocaust, this is madness! get help.

  • Harry Flashman

    “Codepink = Westboro Baptist Church”

    Well said.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    skyfet said:
    I’m embarrassed by you.

    I’ld have to respect you to care…

    skyfet said:
    She’s the kind of heckler people would ignore on the subway,

    Are you blind to who organized this woman?
    Or are you blinded by your Obamabagging marching orders?

  • Harry Flashman

    Skyfet:

    .”….yet you find her so threatening that you fear another holocaust, this is madness! get help.”

    I don’t expect you to understand this because liberals have a hard time thinking past their emotions, but it isn’t this woman. She’s symptomatic of a much larger mindset that is hideously dangerous to millions of people.

    Her group is funded by far left people who genuinely want the destruction of Israel and would be smugly content with the deaths and enslavement of its population. Don’t you get that?

  • skyfet

    Harry Flashman said:
    Skyfet:

    .”….yet you find her so threatening that you fear another holocaust, this is madness! get help.”

    I don’t expect you to understand this because liberals have a hard time thinking past their emotions, but it isn’t this woman. She’s symptomatic of a much larger mindset that is hideously dangerous to millions of people.

    Her group is funded by far left people who genuinely want the destruction of Israel and would be smugly content with the deaths and enslavement of its population. Don’t you get that?

    This is what that whackjub (Coulter) was making fun of last week. How can you attack the weak, yet justify it as defending yourself? The last time I checked George Soros was also funding code pink, surely he wouldn’t want to see deaths of fellow Jews, isn’t that your accusation?

  • tegeagent0007

    Netanyahu was never remotely interested in making peace with the Palestinians. He appeared for a photo op with Abbas at the State Department months ago, It was all for the cameras and for peace, when Hamas wasn’t even in the picture. He made Joe Biden and Mitchell look like fools when they were in Israel by having the Israeli Interior Minister restart settlements in East Jersulalem then claimed that there was miscomunication. Nothing that happens in Israel is based on miscomunication. He drove the Palestinians into the hands of Hamas. That’s exactly what he wanted.

  • fah4d

    Israel is a terrorist state

  • Kitsune

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Zionists

    Oh, you wacky progressives and your racist dog whistles.

  • fah4d

    AIPAC controls both parties. As long as they have this influence, there will ne no peace

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    fah4d said:
    As long as they have this influence, there will ne no peace

    70% of Americans support Israel (the 30% that do not are mostly Liberal)…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    fah4d said:
    Israel is a terrorist state

    I firmly encourage you Liberals to keep up the ant-Israeli rhetoric…
    the mask is off… thanks…

  • ganymede

    The old left/right, ultra-nationalist/peacemakers split in our society comes to the fore on every issue, but none more controversial than the Israel/Palestine mess. I’m a big supporter of the right of Israel to exist and thrive and certainly Obama is as commited as any American leader has been. However, it is clear that the Israeli leadership doesn’t have any intention of making peace – it’s not in their genes. Rabin was the last Israeli who made a sincere effort to make peace and look what happened to him. At this point,Palestine and the West Bank have been chopped into too many bits to allow for a viable state. And then there are the Hamas crazies and since they’re labeled “Terrorists”, Israel and the US won’t deal with them. Probably the majority of Jews in Israel are desperate for peace, and the majority of Jews in the US, while supportive of Israel are tired of Israel’s unwillingness to sincerely work out a peace settlement. The only thing that will work is more countries and the UN voicing their support for some type of real peace settlement now. In so many ways, Israel is a wonderful country but their current attitude and heavy handed retaliation to real and perceivied threats is unnecessary and harmful. The Israelis and Palestinians have much more to gain by working things out than having the current situation continue to fester and make the Middle East even more volatile and unstable. And everyone knows that Israel holds the trump cards. Of course, the rightwingers on this blog will take exception to everything I’ve said. But their objectivity, as we well know isn’t very good, and their political fortunes are heading south fast.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    ganymede said:
    Obama is as commited as any American leader has been.

    That is amusing…

  • BatBoy

    Pink People are the worst.

    We had some move into the neighborhood and the home values dropped

    The local restaurant had to put a sign in the door directed to the Pink people to stay away.
    The sign read, “No Pinks, No Service”!

    We ran them out of town back to Washington DC where they belong!

  • J Baustian

    It is standard operating procedure (SOP) for the leftists to disrupt any public meeting where non-leftists may be speaking.

    As for CodePink, it is one of the worst of the neocommunist groups — maybe not as big or strong as some others, but nobody is more anti-American that CodePink.

    So I wonder, why are there so many CodePink supporters visiting the Mediaite website today? Do you all work for Media Matters? I hope you get a decent salary and benefit package.

  • lane

    5 people protesting is not a protest. It’s not even enough to get a large table in a restaurant.

    Weird.

  • Azarkhan

    There are certain times I wish I was a policeman. I’d grab that bitch by her hair and drag her out. By the time I was done with her, she’d be half bald.

  • spacegod

    Israel is turning into the exact thing they have always despised.
    The trodden upon is becoming the bully.

    And the blind defense of Israel because of some vague belief that being nice to them will hasten
    the return of Jesus or help you get into heaven is just plain sad.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    lane said:
    5 people protesting is not a protest.

    you just said it is…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    spacegod said:
    Israel is turning into the exact thing they have always despised.
    The trodden upon is becoming the bully.
    And the blind defense of Israel because of some vague belief that being nice to them will hasten
    the return of Jesus or help you get into heaven is just plain sad.

    ?!

  • Dem4Ever

    Code Pink is a joke. Will Barack condemn their juvenile behavior? Will Barack come home and deal with the Missouri disaster or will he stay in Europe a few more days? Does he think he is an emperor or something?

  • X-3

    -0bama will NEVER condemn codestink–he’s on their side.

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