Protesters briefly interrupted US President Donald Trump’s address to the Israeli Parliament. A Knesset member was immediately expelled after disrupting a speech. Ofer Kassif and Ayman Odeh, members of the joint Hadash-Ta’al party, were taken out, one of whom was holding a small sign that read Genocide. Security moved in quickly and escorted him out, while Trump stood on the stage watching the proceedings. While he was being removed, other Knesset members Trump! Trump! Trump! Were raising slogans.
Commenting on how quickly the protesters were removed, Trump said it was very effective. On his X account, Odeh wrote that the hypocrisy shown in this plenum is unbearable. The crowning of Netanyahu by a well-planned group through sycophancy on a scale never seen before does not absolve him and his government of responsibility for the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, nor for the blood of thousands of Palestinian and hundreds of thousands of Israeli victims. But I am here only because of the ceasefire and the overall agreement. Despite a completely right-wing government for all living in the disembodied bubble of the Knesset, despite the scandalous use of October 7, and despite a war of extermination, the government of crimes has failed to change this simple equation.
Kasif said, this is the plaque that I erected with my friend Ayman Odeh. We have not come here to spread unrest, but to demand justice. True peace that will save both peoples of this country from destruction will come only with the end of occupation and apartheid and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Refuse to be a occupier! Oppose the government of bloodshed.
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