() 鈥� Protesters at a demonstration in Washington, D.C., linking Black Lives Matter and the Palestinian cause chanted 鈥淚srael, we know you, you murder children, too.鈥�
The demonstration Wednesday as an event in support of the Day of Rage called by the Palestinian Authority and other groups to protest Israel鈥檚 announced plan to annex up to 30% of the West Bank on or after July 1.
A staff writer for The Washington Examiner, Nicolas Rowan, of some of the march on Twitter.
It was only a matter of time before the DC protests turned anti-Semitic.
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore)
Chants also alternated between 鈥淏lack lives matter!鈥� and 鈥淧alestinian lives matter!鈥�
The march, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building, was led by a Harvard student, Christian Tabash, who read a poem about Israel鈥檚 crimes against Palestinian Muslims, according to the Examiner. The poem referred to Israel as 鈥減uppet master of continents,鈥� an age-old conspiracy theory that Jews run the world.
Tabash, a rising senior, also noted several times that the Palestinian movement is 鈥渋ntrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter鈥� and called to defund police departments.
The Republican 91传媒 Coalition in response said in a statement: 鈥淲e are horrified by this vicious hatemongering by Black Lives Matter protesters. The Black Lives Matter charter is filled with anti-Israel and antisemitic lies. It is deeply disturbing, but not surprising, to hear those sentiments chanted in the streets of Washington, DC.鈥�
The statement called on former Vice President Joe Biden, 鈥渁s the standard bearer of the Democrat Party, to condemn these anti-Semitic chants by BLM protesters.鈥�
