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Anti-Israel agitators lay siege on Biden White House, trash Lafayette Square while forcing police out

June 9, 2024 | | Print Article

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters descended on the White House on Saturday to protest the Biden administration’s failure to force a ceasefire in Gaza.

With the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror organization dragging on despite months of public temper tantrums from leftists, the American intifada moved from college campuses into the streets of Washington, D.C. where genocidal and anti-police chants rang out from the mob, many clad in checkered keffiyeh scarfs.

A two-mile red banner dubbed “the people’s red line” was carried by demonstrators as a symbol of Joe Biden’s “red line” for a ceasefire that has yet to materialize.

“Biden, Biden you can’t hide, we are your red line,” protesters chanted, possibly unaware that “Genocide Joe” wasn’t at home with the geriatric Democrat leader in France for the 80th anniversary D-Day celebration.

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“The intention is to draw a red line where Biden won’t draw one when it comes to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and say we as the people are drawing the red line today to say enough is enough,” one protester from the Palestinian Youth Movement said, according to NBC News. “It’s time for an arms embargo, and it’s time to end this.”

Some members of the mob threw smoke flares while others defaced statues and monuments, receiving far more lenient treatment from police than would have been given to conservatives or Trump supporters.

At one point, the mob chased cops out of Lafayette Square, chanting “F*ck the police!”

Some held up a bloody mask of Biden, a ghoulish prop that gave the appearance of a severed head replica.

“9/11. 23 years of being strip searched though TSA to get on a jet. The Patriot Act. FISA courts. ‘Terror alert’ color codes for 10 years after 9/11 and we end up in 2024 with terrorists in the open ACROSS the street from the White House and our FBI/Secret Service DO NOTHING,” wrote former Mediaite managing editor Jon Nicosia on X, formerly Twitter.

As is always the case with such protests, left-wing grievance groups with differing – and often contradictory – causes joined with the pro-Hamas activists, including some who waved signs reading “F*gs for Hamas” with nary a clue about the Islamic world’s rigid anti-homosexual views.

Shut it Down for Palestine, an organizer of the protest said, “Biden’s red line is nowhere to be seen. Instead of following through and stopping military aid to Israel, Biden has authorized billions more in weapons shipments to be used to kill and massacre Palestinians.”

“Biden can’t draw the line, but we can. On June 8, we will come together from across the country and surround the White House. Wearing red, and raising our demands high, we will show the world that we are the red line. We demand an immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine,” the group stated on its website. “Stop the Genocide! We are the red line! Free Palestine!”

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