Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Take Over Capitol Hill Rotunda - Marjorie Taylor Greene Declares 'Insurrection'
CORRECTION, Oct. 19, 2023: The pro-Palestinian demonstration Wednesday occurred in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington. An earlier version of this article and its headline indicated a different location.
Pro-Palestinian protesters invaded Capitol Hill on Wednesday, spurring many to accuse the leftist demonstrators of staging an “insurrection.”
As the raucous pro-Palestinian protesters coursed through the Cannon House Office Building chanting and leaving some graffiti, Georgia Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene jumped to her social media account to post a video declaring an “insurrection.”
“There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill,” she wrote as a caption to her video of the protesters in her Wednesday afternoon X post.
There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill https://t.co/hBMIcv3pqW
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 18, 2023
In her video, Greene not only showed the dozens of protesters in the Cannon rotunda but also the scene of several hundred demonstrators outside the building.
“They’re claiming they want peace, but they want money to go to terrorists. They’re saying let Gaza live, but Hamas went in and murdered innocent Israeli citizens and these people are blaming Israel,” the congresswoman said in her video.
“You know what, they should throw out their Hamas out of Gaza,” Greene said.
“Hand them over and let them be tried for their crimes,” Greene added.
Other videos showed the pandemonium going on by the protesters inside the building.
Spencer Brown, managing editor of Townhall.com, noted that the Capitol Hill police had ruled that protests and demonstrations are not allowed in the Capitol or its surrounding official congressional office buildings.
The scene in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda on Capitol Hill as Hamas sympathizers chant under a banner calling for a “CEASEFIRE.” Of note, demonstrations are not allowed in congressional buildings, per Capitol Police. pic.twitter.com/9RcCIjUzud
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) October 18, 2023
Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters outside United States Capitol right now as hundreds gather inside, being arrested. pic.twitter.com/oyZkNXPeFe
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 18, 2023
Some arrests were also made, according to video taken on the scene.
Police begin one by one arrests of pro-Palestine protesters in Cannon Capitol building atrium. pic.twitter.com/92L3liqzCW
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 18, 2023
SEE IT: Protesting outside and inside the Cannon building in Congress, Jewish Americans say ‘no genocide’ in Gaza in their names, chant ‘not in our names’, ‘not in our names’. pic.twitter.com/FcCKYhzskY
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 18, 2023
Protesters also caused some damage. AF Post posted that Texas Rep. Randy Weber found that pro-Palestine protesters tore down an “I stand with Israel” sign in the Cannon building.
Texas Rep. Randy Weber seethes after pro-Palestine protestors tear down “I stand with Israel” sign in Cannon House Office on Capitol Hill.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/d8Sabf4RHq
— AF Post (@AFpost) October 18, 2023
Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan posted images of some of the graffiti that protesters perpetrated on government facilities.
Vandalism around the capital buildings. pic.twitter.com/ATS1CL0FU3
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 18, 2023
The protests seem to many to be little different than those that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, a protest that Democrats have deemed an “insurrection” and for which heavy prison sentences have been handed down to those arrested.
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