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In the clips and in a full video of the event, audience members in the Palo Alto City Council chambers are seen interrupting the proceedings and making false statements. The event mirrored other public meetings in the Bay Area since Oct. 7 where pro-Palestinian activists have vilified Israel and either defended Hamas as a “resistance” movement or denied its brutality on that day.
Julie Lythcott-Haims, a candidate who is currently a member of the Palo Alto City Council, faced more of the vitriol.
“I deplore the actions of Hamas on October 7th,” she said, to one loud “boo!” from a female audience member.
“Really? Really?” Lythcott-Haims said. “They butchered people, murdered people, raped people and took hostages.”
At mention of the word “raped,” the audience exploded with anger. Amid the swell of noise, a boy draped in a Palestinian flag yelled about Hamas: “They did not murder anyone!”
When organizers regained control of the room, Lythcott-Haims said: “I did not know that that would be a controversial statement.”
(video of the exchange is in the original paywalled article but archive.today turns embedded videos into screenshots, so for those who want to see it but can’t open the paywalled article here’s the direct link: https://www.instagram.com/danielleyablonka/reel/C2yyfi9sRMx/)
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Yes it’s bullshit, just like denying the historical impact of Israeli treatment of Palestine or their current genocidal tactics.
Both sides suck in their own various ways.
you cunts have been screaming “genocide” for the last 70 years, whilst the “palestinian” population has increased 100 fold, which seems to point to precisely the opposite of a genocide, you know, by the dictionary definition of the word
the trick of hiding the terrorists within their civilian population isn’t working out so handily this time, so you and nazi islamofacist apologists like you start screaming “genocide, it’s a genocide, is everybody watching genocide i said, genocide, is this thing on”, and that too, is antisemitic as fuck, you fucking nazi prick
It’s cool how you can’t defend your position so you just resort to throwing a tantrum.
Stay classy bro.