‘Get Your Hands Off Me!’: Reporters Thrown Out Of Blinken Press Conference
Two reporters were physically removed from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s final press conference on Thursday after they repeatedly shouted and interrupted the event.
Blinken was delivering remarks at the State Department on the ceasefire deal that was announced on Wednesday when the reporters began to interrupt.
Blinken was interrupted by far-Left blogger Max Blumenthal, who claimed that Blinken “kept the bombs flowing.”
“Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism?” Blumenthal fumed. “Why did you allow my friends to be massacred? Why did you allow my friends’ homes in Gaza to be destroyed when we had a deal in May?”
Blinken repeatedly said that he was happy to answer questions once the event reached the question-and-answer portion, but the reporters continued to interrupt.
“You helped destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism,” Blumenthal falsely claimed as he continued to shout. “You waved the white flag before Netanyahu. You waved the white flag before Israeli fascists. Your father-in-law was an Israeli lobbyist, your grandfather was an Israeli lobbyist — are you compromised by Israel? Why did you allow the holocaust of our time to happen? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide?”
Another blogger Sam Husseini was physically carried out of the event by security after repeatedly shouting.
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“Get your hands off me! Get your hands off me! Get your hands off me! Answer a damn question!” Husseini raged. “I was sitting here quietly, and now I’m being manhandled by two or three people!”
“You pontificate about a free press,” he continued. “You pontificate about a free press. You’re hurting me! You are hurting me! You are hurting me! I am asking questions, after being told by Matt Miller that he will not answer my questions until I’m –”
Blinken calmly asked that Husseini “respect the process” as he was carried out of the room while he continued to shout.
“Oh, respect the process? Respect the process,” Husseini screamed. “While everybody, everybody from the — from Amnesty International, from Amnesty International to the ICJ saying that Israel is doing genocide and extermination, and you’re telling me to respect the process?”
“Criminal!” yelled Husseini. “Why aren’t you in The Hague? Why aren’t you in The Hague? Why aren’t you in the Hague?”
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