A pro-Israel counter-protester who confronted thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Manhattan on Labor Day declared afterwards: “If you’re Jewish and you vote for Democrats, you’re crazy, I’m sorry — you’re insane.”
As Breitbart News reported, some 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators set off smoke bombs and confronted police in a march on Labor Day. At least one even carried Hamas flags; observers noted the complete lack of American flags.
Breitbart News noted: “The protest was a contrast to the vigil the day before by pro-Israel demonstrators, who had gathered to show solidarity with Israel after Hamas murdered six hostages, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.”
A few pro-Israel counter-protesters confronted the march. Fox News reported the bewildered reaction of one of them, who referred to Vice President Kamala Harris’s past statement of empathy for anti-Israel protests, and noted the recent murder of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin by Hamas:
“If you’re Jewish and you vote for Democrats, you’re crazy, I’m sorry — you’re insane.”
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) September 3, 2024
I wasn’t such a political person. Now i’m a single policy voter. Israel — straight, through and through. Isn’t Kamala [Harris] the one who says she sympathizes with the human emotion of these protesters? What are you sympathizing with, terrorism? Joe Biden — I mean, where is he? Is he even — has he made a speech about anything? I mean, an American just got shot in the head. Where is everyone? Where is the accountability? I don’t get it anymore. And you know what? I might be going off the lam [sic] here. If you are Jewish and vote for Democrats you are crazy, I’m sorry — you’re insane. Look at [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer and down the line. They don’t have our backs.
Biden told the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, last month during his address to the party that pro-Palestinian protesters outside the venue “have a point.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of “”The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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