Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) appeared to wave an Israeli flag at protestors demanding a cease-fire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
“Jackass @JohnFetterman saw veterans getting arrested and laughed,” the veterans against war group About Face posted Thursday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, alongside a video of what appeared to be the Pennsylvania senator walking by a group of protestors and waving an Israeli flag.
“We asked to see @SenGillibrand. We were put in cuffs. We need leaders who listen to veterans demanding a #CeaseFireNow,” the post continued.
The group was arrested for protesting in New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D) office in the Capitol.
Fetterman has consistently been a defender of Israel during its conflict with Hamas. He called out some of his Democratic colleagues’ speed to blame Israel for a hospital blast last month.
“It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza,” Fetterman said in a post on X.
“Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?” he added.
On Wednesday, Fetterman posted a video of what he said were “the posters of the innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas” displayed in his front office.
“They will stay up until every single person is safely returned home,” he said in his post.
Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel early last month that began the current conflict and left more than 1,400 Israelis dead. It also took about 240 hostages.
Israeli forces started a ground operation into Gaza late last month, even amid warnings that the operation could worsen an already dire humanitarian situation in the territory. More than 10,000 Palestinians have died since the start of the war at the beginning of last month, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
“the posters of the innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas” displayed in his front office. “They will stay up until every single person is safely returned home,”
INDISCRIMINATE KILLINGS OF GAZANS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS SAFELY RETURNED HOME
is such an aptly named emoji.Bombing of hostages will continue until hostages are saved.
meme’d it before seeing your reply
I’m pretty sure this sort of framing of the conflict is designed for it to become Israel’s version of the forever MIA/POW myth. Israel can pretend that Hamas is lying when it only returns the majority of the POWs because the rest got bombed/starved to death and can use it to justify forever war against palestine even more
they have a POW/MIA flag flying in front of my local jail. death to america
AFAIK it’s a law that federal buildings have to fly the POW/MIA flag. TrueAnon has a whole episode about the whole bullshit grift. It’s a good example of how fucking stupid America is.
I wonder if he takes down the ones killed by Israeli bombs.
Well, hasn’t Israel already killed some of the hostages? So… it will never stop.
Would be kind of funny to sneak in and post 11,000 or 12,000 pictures of dead Gazans.
Man Fetterman really turned out to be a “monkey’s paw” candidate huh
He was always to the right of Bernie he just acquired the false consciousness aesthetics of the American working class.
Best thing I can say about him is that Dr Oz would probably be just as bad.
Dr. Oz is muslim and Turkish so maybe that would have compelled him to be more pro-Palestine, or at the least less rabidly pro-Israel.
It’s the hoody and the shorts; he’s still clueless otherwise and will fight to defend that cluelessness
JohnFetterman saw veterans getting arrested and laughed
Death to America
https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-tells-protester-he-cant-understand-him-i-had-stroke-1841276
A protester interrupted Fetterman during a campaign appearance with Sara Innamorato, a candidate to become the next Allegheny County’s executive, reported Pittsburgh-based television news station WPXI.
“Four dead children in Palestine. 9K plus dead civilians. Get off the stage,” the protester, who was escorted out of the event by security, said. “You have blood on your hands. Get off the stage.”
Fetterman responded to the protester by saying he did not fully understand what he was saying due to auditory processing issues caused by a stroke last year.
“The joke is on you. I had a stroke. I can’t fully understand what you’re saying,” he said.
edit: Also, imagine the terrible response Dr. Oz would have had if he won instead. He’d have probably walked by ceasefire protestors being arrested while waving an Israeli flag. He wouldn’t listen to his constituents and would dismiss their concerns about a genocide. Thank god the democrats demanded we vote blue no matter who.
“The joke is on you. I had a stroke. I can’t fully understand what you’re saying,” he said.
You clearly fucking get the essence of it if you included that fucking smarmy quip at the start of that sentence you
-ass motherfuckerliterally going “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU”
Fetterman 100% stole that line from an Onion article.
Hope the next one kills him
Wasn’t expecting to pull out the crabs for this guy, but a crab rave is a crab rave.
Well. I knew the day would come when Fetterman would let me down after voting for him but I didn’t expect it to be almost exactly a year to the day.
“I wish for Dr Oz not to win the Senate race.”
monkey’s paw curls
next time vote for the stroke?
Yup, I’ll put that in the write in candidate field
Democrats are fucking monsters
Demoncrats
Fetterman tells Palestinian child who lost his mother to bombing to try therapy.
Fetterman billed himself as a better man, but he was really just another letter man
.Bars
In bad country the media is hidden from everyone else in the world.
I wrote this yesterday and I shared it in the megathread.
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Music much like this - https://youtu.be/TdNU59UluwY?t=328 - is playing but at a lower more dignified tempo. 0.75 speed is pretty good.
Adam Curtis says “Here we see pro-Palestinian protestors being arrested near the Capitol Building in Washington DC. In the background - in casual clothes - is the physically imposing silhouette of John Fetterman - a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania. He is carrying a flag. But it is not the American flag. It is the Flag of Israel…” He pauses for a while so the viewer can take it all in. “Now we must go back to 1948 and the nakba.”
“The Nakba is from Arabic. It literally means “the catastrophe”. It was the violent displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, and the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations…”
I stole the second bit from Wikipedia. Oddly - it already worked perfectly for his style and voice.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Heartbreaking the largest son you know just made a terrible point
social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism
Calling him a social democrat is too generous
Wow that is… real sicko shit.
I guess almost shooting that black jogger wasn’t a one-off.
