A Democratic state lawmaker disrupted Kamala Harris’s speech at a holiday party this week, holding up a sign that read “cease-fire” regarding the Hamas-Israel war and shouting at the vice president. Harris responded with frustration to the interruption.
“Madam Vice President, I am a rep from Delaware. Did you know in Bethlehem they are not celebrating Christmas? Did you know in Bethlehem, baby Jesus is under rubble? Why won’t you call for a cease-fire?” Wilson-Anton shouted, according to Fox News.
Harris cut her off, saying, “I appreciate you wanting to be heard, but right now I’m speaking.”
A Democrat state representative from Delaware interrupted Kamala Harris's holiday party tonight screaming about a ceasefire. Kamala responds with, "Right now, I am speaking." pic.twitter.com/O8uockwr0A
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“Call for a cease-fire now,” she shouted as she was being hauled out of the event.
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Biden wrote stated just last month that “a cease-fire is not peace.”
“As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace. To Hamas’ members, every cease-fire is time they exploit to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters and restart the killing by attacking innocents again,” he said.
However, divisions between President Biden and the majority of Congress have emerged from the more progressive factions of the Democratic Party, including members of the “Squad” like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, among others.
“House progressive Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. – who was censured for chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ – also voiced similar calls for a cease-fire,” Fox News noted.