“Netanyahu is the Main Obstacle to Peace”: CodePink Activist Disrupts Israeli PM Speech to Congress

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/25/netanyahu_is_the_main_obstacle_to

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was warmly received by Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Tuesday. According to ABC News, he received 29 standing ovations during his address—four more than President Obama received during his State of the Union address earlier in the year. However, there was at least one dissenting voice inside the halls of Congress on Tuesday. Rae Abileah, a Jewish-American activist of Israeli descent with the peace group CodePink, disrupted Netanyahu’s speech. Standing in the congressional gallery, she yelled, “No more occupation! Stop Israel war crimes! Equal rights for Palestinians! Occupation is indefensible!” As she screamed, members in the audience tackled her to the ground, and undercover security forces later dragged her outside. She was taken to George Washington University Hospital where she was treated for neck and shoulder injuries. At the hospital, police arrested Abileah and charged her with disorderly conduct for disrupting Congress. Her protest came as part a week-long series of actions organized by CodePink called Move Over AIPAC. We speak to Abileah about why she used nonviolent civil disobedience to disrupt Netanayahu’s speech.

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AMY GOODMAN: What were you just saying? You were tackled by members of AIPAC?

RAE ABILEAH: I just wanted to say that the people that were sitting around me in the gallery of Congress yesterday were mostly wearing badges from the AIPAC Israel lobby conference. And I did not expect that people holding such power and representing such a huge lobby group would respond so violently to my peaceful disruption. And after I spoke out, Netanyahu said, you know, "This is what’s possible in a democracy. And you wouldn’t be able to get away with this in other countries like Tunisia." And I think that is ridiculous and absurd. If this is what democracy looks like, that when you speak out for freedom and justice, you get tackled to the ground, you get physically violated and assaulted, and then you get hauled off to jail, that’s not the kind of democracy that I think I want to live in.

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But Hamas and Fatah as well.

These are three orgs that live, breathe and eat war. It makes them happy when people die. Their blood is not red, but black and calcified at that.

Without fear, he has nothing.

have several cameras for security placed about and running? This would be
important for her to obtain, if it existed.

Halfway through Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress on Monday I was confronted by a moral dilemma. A woman protester two seats away from me had infiltrated the speech, pulled out a red anti-Israel flag, and started hurling curses about Israel. The elderly gentleman to my right, whom I had been talking to just before the speech started, pulled the flag out of her hands, cupped his hands over her mouth, and assisted in subduing her. Should I help?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/post_2057_b_866660.html

Photo with that article.

There are some other photos on his site via twitter.

possibly show the entire event which would be more revealing. The man standing by what seems to be a doorway, it
appears he is on cell phone, a security member, I don't know.

They appear to have been taken professionally.

There is another linked to on his twitter page that show that particular security person (I think) taking the woman away.

on film will tell what happened, if it exists. That's why I wondered if the
chamber has running security cameras in various sections.

The quality of the photos suggest that they are not simply video captures, which is what I thought you were asking.

They certainly look better than what one would find from a security camera.

In any case, I believe the woman is pressing charges against one of the individuals involved for what that is worth.

event from it's inception to conclusion as well as film footage, if it exists.