Protesters attempting to link the Palestinian cause with the Black Lives Matter movement recited antisemitic poems and shouted horrific anti-Israel slogans and in Washington D.C. yesterday.
The Washington Examiner reported that the march of roughly 200 people was headed by Harvard University senior Christian Tabash, who led the marchers in the somewhat awkward chant, “Israel, we know you, you murder children too.” An Examiner journalist, Nicholas Rowan, posted video of the marchers chanting on Twitter.
It was only a matter of time before the DC protests turned anti-Semitic. pic.twitter.com/YTbwwGuOYh
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) July 1, 2020
The Examiner stated that the crowd quickly switched to shouting “Black lives matter” and “Palestinian lives matter” while flying Palestinian flags.
Tabash then read an antisemitic poem that called Israel the “puppet master of continents.”
The march was independent of the Black Lives Matter movement itself and did not appear to be officially affiliated with BLM.
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) stated, “We are horrified by this vicious hate mongering by Black Lives Matter protesters. The Black Lives Matter charter is filled with anti-Israel and antisemitic lies. We call on former Vice President Joe Biden, as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party, to condemn these antisemitic chants by BLM protesters.”