This past week I spent time in New York City, and in Washington D.C. for protests surrounding the anniversary of the October 7th massacre in Israel.
The protests were planned months in advance. All around the country. In New York, thousands gathered in Times Square seemingly in support of the massacre. Dissidents wore terrorist headbands and waved Palestinian flags.
One Christian group showed out in opposition. They wore T-shirts and held signs bearing the face of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who opposed the Nazi regime and attempted to assassinate Hitler twice. Bonhoeffer was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.
One pro-Hamas protestor told the pro-Israel group that they were on “the wrong side of history” despite the use of the anti-Nazi figure as their symbol.
Another from the anti-Israel side threatened to kill the Christians. He ran over other side wearing a PFLP headband and holding up a triangle like a gang sign.
The Triangle, particularly the red upside down triangle has been a symbol Hamas uses in propaganda videos to mark targets just before they kill Israeli soldiers. The NYPD was unphased. One officer agreed that it didn’t count unless it was a verbal threat - and called it a simple “demonstration.”
When I got to D.C. I immediately drove to Columbia Maryland where protestors called for an “American intifada” and a candidate much “further to the left” of Kamala. That protest however remained peaceful.
Supporters of Israel held a memorial for victims of the October 7th attack at the Washington Monument. JD Vance came to deliver a speech. He received overwhelming applause, and “boos” when he spoke of Kamala Harris.
After the event, attendees marched to the White House where hostage families hung posters of their loved ones. Those posters were subsequently torn down only an hour later by terrorist sympathizers who held a vigil for dead terrorists in Lafayette Square.
I filmed those people and confronted them. Afterward, I also confronted their leader Medea Benjamin, the founder of Code Pink.
Medea insisted that she cared about all human suffering but refused to condemn the tearing down of hostage posters on the anniversary of their capture. She also insisted that she didn’t “have to” do anything when I asked if she’d speak with those who had torn them down.
