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During a July 24, 2024 Washington D.C. protest, titled "Arrest Netanyahu," political activist Linda Sarsour told the crowd that they are the reason that Joe Biden is not on the top of the Democratic ticket for the presidential elections in November. She said that they are also the reason that Vice President and the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris did not preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the joint session of Congress, and dozens of Congress members boycotted it. Sarsour said: "Let us be clear, our votes are still to be earned!"
Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations applauded members of Congress who boycotted Netanyahu's speech, mentioned VP Harris finding a way to "skip the criminal's speech," and said: "I challenge you not to give up on the elections in November. […] The uncommitted movement was able to sideline Biden." Participants in the protest removed the American flags flying at Union Station near Capitol Hill, burned an effigy of Netanyahu, and the American flag.
Nihad Awad: "Today, we applaud the members of Congress, who could have been in the House of People, applauding a war criminal, but they decided to boycott him. We appreciate these people and we thank them. If the Vice President Kamala Harris found a way to skip the criminal's speech, what about those people who are planning to go there? Shame on them!"
Crowd: "Shame!"
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Awad: "I challenge you to not give up on the elections in November. I challenge you to go and show up, because the uncommitted movement was able to sideline President Biden, and we have to continue and put up our demands."
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Layan Fuleihan: "This mass movement for the liberation of Palestine began all the way back on October 8, when thousands of people flooded into the streets of Times Square and demanded that the right side of history was with the Palestinian people."
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Linda Sarsour: "The reason that Joe Biden is not at the top of the nomination of the Democratic Party is because of you, my friends. The reason why Kamala Harris is not presiding on Benjamin Netanyahu the war criminal's speech in Congress today, is because of you. The reason why dozens of Members of Congress are boycotting the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is because of you.
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"We have got a lot of work to do, and nothing changes. It doesn't matter who the presumptive nominee is for the Democratic Party, you stay outside, you stay focused, and you don't get distracted.
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"Let us be very clear, our votes are still to be earned. We will not be pawns in a political system that does not give us the demands that not only we deserve, but are the right thing to do.
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[U.S. lawmakers] are pigs, all of them are pigs. I f*****g hate every one of them. Bleep that out... No, I hate every one of them, you are old-ass-men in office. You don't stand up for women's rights. You make Kamala Harris have to say these things that are hypo... that are just... just hypocritical of everything that she, as a black woman, stands for."
Crowd: "Secret Service, KKK... IOF – they are all the same!"
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Woman: "Behind me... the Palestinian flag is being raised, as it rightly should have!"
Crowd: "Free, free Palestine! From the River to the Sea... Palestine will be free!
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"Raise the banner of the revolution! Raise your voices! Those who shout will not die!
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"From the water [of the Jordan River] to the water [of the Mediterranean Sea]... Palestine is Arab! There is no god but Allah! And the martyr is beloved by Allah! From Gaza, it has been decided... Intifada, victory! Intifada, Intifada! Long live the Intifada!"
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Cameraman: "Now, people are burning stuff."
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Crowd: "Free, free Palestine!"
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"Burn that shit!"
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