Far left Jewish and Palestinian protesters interrupted the hearing today for Trump Israeli Ambassador nominee David Friedman today on Capitol Hill.
The protesters began screaming at the Trump nominee seconds into his opening statement.
Protest during Israeli Ambassador nominee David #Friedman's opening statement. Watch hearing LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/ng7EyWWO5s pic.twitter.com/TJ1R1VqoW2
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 16, 2017
Another Palestinian protester interrupted Friedman’s opening comments screaming,
“We will be there! Palestinians will always be in Palestine!”
Powerful protest by a Palestinian man in confirmation hearing for Trump's far-right Israel ambassador David Friedman pic.twitter.com/77OjqWfbsI
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 16, 2017
Moments before the hearing Senator Bob Corker walked into the audience and asked the anti-Jew Code Pink mob to refrain from protesting.
Ahead of contentious hearing on Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, Corker walks into crowd to talk to @codepink. Please don't protest? pic.twitter.com/3XFo2SNxlh
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) February 16, 2017