Far-left journalists shout at Blinken about Gaza during his last press conference
A pair of far-left activist journalists on Thursday heckled US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his final press conference at the State Department.
Blinken began the presser by offering remarks on the Biden administration’s foreign policy before taking questions, but Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini refused to wait until the secretary had finished speaking before shouting him down.
“Are you compromised by Israel?” Blumenthal shouted, as he filmed himself, indicating he had planned to cause a scene.
Blumenthal, the anti-Zionist Jewish editor of the publication the Grayzone who is the son of former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal, claimed Blinken was “sacrific[ing] the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism,” adding “You helped destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism.”
He also accused Israel, and Blinken, of “genocide” and said Israel was perpetrating “the Holocaust of our time.”
Shortly after security guards escorted........
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