Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu's Address to Congress, 400 Arrested

[Uncle Joe]

Some 400 Jewish activists, including over a dozen rabbis, were arrested Tuesday during a sit-in inside the Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and demand an immediate U.S. weapons embargo on Israel. “It is absolutely shameful that congressional leadership has invited a war criminal, who is currently leading a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, to address a joint session of Congress,” says Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action. Lawmakers have rolled out a “blood-soaked red carpet to a war criminal” by inviting Benjamin Netanyahu, adds Palestinian American organizer Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Muslim advocacy group MPower Action. Tuesday’s civil disobedience protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. We are also joined by Noa Grayevsky, member of Jewish Voice for Peace-Portland, who joined the protest and whose cousin’s close friend was taken hostage on October 7.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

[Magoo48]

1. Those of you who still watch corporate MSM and then bitch about it here.

One must know by now that billionaire MSM is what it is, and what it will be for the foreseeable future, with or without our outrage.

Here is some in situ reporting, without pundits, in the midst of direct action.
And, nevertheless, crickets.

I’ve been here for more than a dozen years and still don’t get it. I’ve heard the old resentments and grudges. Really?
Amy Goodman is still the best investigative journalist in the last two decades.
I love her energy.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Amy reminds me of Walter Cronkite

I believe the corporate media has largely conditioned the American People to believe that the news should be interpreted for them.

That gives the pundits a great deal of influential power and you know what Frederick Douglas had to say about power.

[Magoo48]

3. I can see the resemblance.

She is insightful and tenacious. She loves to dig for the truth. She will report things liberals don’t like, and for me, that gives her credibility.