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Protesters Interrupt Moment of Silence for Pittsburgh at GOP Rally
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 29, 2018 , 4:59 pm
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A protester is taken from a campaign event for Republican
U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. (Credit: Tennessean/Screen capture)
In the wake of the shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue,
many on the left are trying to twist the horrific incident into a black mark
for President Trump. Protesters showed up at a GOP rally, intending to do just
that, overstepping all bounds of decency when they ruined a moment of silence
in memory of the victims.
Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) was holding a
“Get out and Vote” rally in Davidson County, Tennessee on Sunday and decided to
have a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the shooting the day before.
Blackburn said, “Let’s take a moment and remember those
who lost their lives in Pittsburgh and express our gratitude for the law
enforcement who responded so beautifully. A moment of silence.”
The moment was ruined by protesters who yelled out “Impeach
Trump” and called Blackburn a “white supremacist.”
Gillum Ferguson, press secretary for the Tennessee
Republican Party, told the Tennessean some
of the protesters were quietly asked to leave the event but declined. “They
said you’re going to have to call the cops and we called the cops,” Ferguson
said.
Police removed five protesters from the rally.
As the crowd quieted, Blackburn said, “How despicable
that you cannot even have a moment of silence.”
Blackburn, in her own statement, added: “The liberal
angry mob made it clear they are active in Tennessee and will stop at nothing
to disrupt civil political discourse. They resisted law enforcement, and they
interrupted a moment of silence for the victims in Pittsburgh.”
The incident at Blackburn’s event is indicative of the
currently highly divisive atmosphere of public discourse in the U.S. So much
so, that it has even infected simple acts to honor the dead. Much of the blame
and anger over the Pittsburgh shooting is aimed at President Trump, whose
status as an anti-Semite would seem to contradict his having a Jewish daughter
and several Jewish grandchildren. The vitriol aimed at the president is
misplaced as Bowers, the Pittsburgh shooter, posted on social media that he
hated Trump specifically due to his support of the Jews and Israel. Labelling
Blackburn is perplexing since “white supremacists” do not usually hold moments
of silence for slain Jews.
The criticism aimed at Trump was further deflected by
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer who addressed this on a Fox News
interview on Sunday. Demer praised the president for saying that “those who are
trying to destroy the Jewish people, we will destroy them.”
“Not only did I hear that statement, I heard it applauded
by all of Trump’s supporters at that rally. That should tell people that this
is the actions of the extremes. It could be neo-Nazis on the right, it could be
militant Islamists on the left, it could be all sorts of people in between.
Anti-Semitism is not a product of one side of the political spectrum,” said
Dermer.
“To pin this all at the foot of President Trump is wrong.
I very much appreciate, and the Prime Minister of Israel appreciated his strong
condemnation of anti-Semitism yesterday.”
“What I think has to happen is that people across the
political spectrum should stand together against this hate and they shouldn’t
just call out anti-Semites on the other side of the political aisle. They have
to call out anti-Semites on their own side of the political aisle,” stressed
the Israeli Ambassador.
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