SOUTH CAROLINA (JNS) — Anti-Israel protesters interrupted U.S. President Joe Biden’s 30-minute campaign speech on Monday at the African Methodist Episcopal church Mother Emanuel, in Charleston, S.C., which was the site of a 2015 mass shooting hate crime, in which nine people were killed.
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“If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost and call for a ceasefire in Palestine,” a small group of protesters yelled, about seven-and-a-half minutes into Biden’s remarks. They then chanted “Ceasefire now,” before being removed from the more than 200-year-old church.
“That’s all right,” Biden said, as many took to their feet and chanted, “Four more years.”
“I’ve been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza,” Biden told the audience. “I’m using all that I can to do that. But I understand the passion.”
“Ceasefire now!”
Protesters interrupt President Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
The audience chants: “Four more years!”
President Biden: “I understand their passion. I’ve been quietly working with the Israeli government…” pic.twitter.com/Vq3U01UhjW
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 8, 2024
The Biden administration has rejected calls for a ceasefire in Israel’s war to defeat Hamas, instead at times calling for “humanitarian pauses.”
The Israeli military on Monday confirmed that it had shifted to a less intensive stage of the conflict, after weeks of U.S. pressure to reduce civilian casualties.
At a press event in Qatar on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he discussed reducing civilian casualties in Gaza in every meeting he had in his whirlwind tour of the region in recent days.
“As Israel moves to a lower-intensity phase of its military operation in the north, the United Nations can also play a crucial role in evaluating what needs to be done to allow displaced Palestinians to return home,” Blinken said.
“Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow,” he said. “They cannot and they must not be pressed to leave Gaza.”
Blinken is due to arrive in Israel later on Monday.
Mr President and the members of the church and the black-hearted hecklers who came to disrupt a memorial of victims of brazen murders: I have news for you! Israel also wants out of Gaza!! They want the hostages released OUT OF GAZA immediately!! No more asinine exchanges about “prisoner exchanges” of barbarians with blood on their hands for innocent infants and children snatched brutally. May Sinwar and his henchmen meet a speedy and decisive end and ceasefire and Shalom al Yisroel.
Weak leader . We need a strong leader like trump
Trump 2024
It’s a dangerous situation.
Israel – Keep you finger on the nucleur botton…
Hashem Yerachem
Another so called friend of Israel ,who has no problem throwing the state of Israel under the bus or the whole Jewish race for that matter
He didn’t even know that his Defense Secretary was in the ICU in the hospital tor 3 days
I thought Biden himself was trying to get out of Gaza. He usually doesn’t know where he is.
I’ve never been able to understand the African-American support for the Arabs, and their anti-Israel attitude, especially for the last few months? It was the Arabs which enslaved Blacks for hundreds of years, before the Europeans even did so. Secondly, in Rwanda, Africa, in 1994, when the Hutus were slaughtering the Tutsi minority, (whereby upwards of 600,000 men, women, and children of the Tutsi minority were slaughtered, during a three month period), where were the African-Americans protesting thet carnage at that time? There was coverage of that genocide in American newspapers, and on television. However, there was not one iota of protest from the Blacks and their allies, during that period. Their silence was deafening. Yet, when it comes to the Jews, they are out in full force; what hypocrisy!!
what a dunderhead
Seems that it was a miniscule group, very few people in a large crowd.
Anyone here who thinks he was elected is a fool .
Joe has tremendous leadership abilities.
Can not really blame Biden, his can barely remember he is President and frequently has called his vice as president. I blame his wife for allowing this elder abuse!
Democrats always end up stabbing Israel in the back, and funding their enemies.
The old demented fool needs to die d*e akready. Mygod this creature refuses to stop destroying anything he can