The two leading US presidential candidates US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned the most visible
The two leading U.S. presidential candidates, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, on Thursday condemned the most visible of the pro-Hamas protests against Israel that erupted the day before near the U.S. Capitol.
The protests came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was defiantly defending his country’s war against the Hamas militants in an address to Congress.
Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election, said in a statement, ‘We saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric’ at Union Station, Washington’s train depot not far from the Capitol.
In the plaza in front of the rail station, demonstrators replaced American flags with Palestinian flags, and a man climbed up to the middle of a fountain and used red spray paint to write ‘Hamas is comin” in big letters. Protesters also burned an effigy of Netanyahu and a U.S. flag.
On his Truth Social media platform, Trump said ‘If those people rioting in Washington yesterday were Republicans/Conservatives, they’d all be in jail right now, facing 10- to 20-year sentences. Under this Crooked Administration, nothing will happen to them!’
Police arrest 23
Thousands of protesters were in the Washington streets on Wednesday to protest against Netanyahu’s appearance at the Capitol and to support Palestinians. Most of the protests were peaceful, but some demonstrators clashed with police, and 23 were arrested.
‘I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews’, Harris said. ‘Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent, and we must not tolerate it in our nation.’
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Harris also condemned the burning of the U.
