After anti-Israel protesters with their hands painted red flooded the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Israeli experts said red hands meant “the evisceration of the Jews” and a “bloody defeat.” He said that there is a deep meaning to it.
Protesters inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building in the Capitol on Tuesday held their palms facing forward, their hands stained red with blood.
Ann Baevsky, director of the Touro Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust, explained to FOX News Digital the meaning of red hands after anti-Israel demonstrators marched on the U.S. Capitol.
“Palestinian hands stained with Israeli blood are a symbol indeed, a symbol of brutality and human depravity,” she said.
“Jews in Israel and those who follow the decades-long attempt to annihilate the Jewish state and all of its Jewish people must remember the images and horrors of what exactly those bloody hands meant. I can’t forget it.”
Anti-Israel activists shut down the Senate cafeteria.Approximately 50 people arrested
On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, anti-Israel agitators marched on the U.S. Capitol. (Fox News)
A Capitol Police officer removes protesters from the room during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Washington, DC, USA. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Baevsky said the red hand became a symbol of Ramallah Lynch during the violent uprisings during the Second Intifada in 2000, and was unveiled for the first time before celebrities wore red hand pins at this year’s Oscars. .
October 12, 2000, 2 people IDF reservistsYossi Abrahami and Vadim Nurzitz were lynched by a large mob in Ramallah, West Bank, after taking a wrong turn in Palestinian Authority-held territory.
Approximately 1,000 Palestinians gathered around the police station as word spread about their whereabouts.
One of the soldiers’ wives heard on her cell phone that a Palestinian butcher answered the victim’s phone and told her: “We are slaughtering your husband.”
In October 2000, a young Palestinian man (left) proudly shows that he has Israeli blood on his hands as Palestinians cheer and shout “Allahu Akbar.”
One particular image of this massacre became infamous when one of the killers, Aziz Salha, waved his bloody hand to the crowd from the window of the police station after dozens of people broke in.
Salha later explained that the Palestinians present were “enthusiastic to see blood.” As he waved, the Palestinian mob cheered “Allahu Akbar” (meaning “God is great” in Arabic).
“We were excited because we wanted to see blood,” Salha said in court documents obtained by the court. “When we entered the room… we saw an Israeli soldier sprawled on the floor in front of the door. ” he is said to have said. era of israel.
Pro-Palestinian protests break out inside the Senate building
“As I approached him, I saw a knife stuck in his back near his right shoulder. I pulled the knife and stabbed him two or three times in the back… while I The others who were there kept kicking him. I put my hand over his mouth, the other over his shoulder, to strangle him.”
“I could see that my hands were soaked in blood, and so was my shirt,” Salha continued. “So I went to the window and waved to the people in the courtyard.”
The mob then threw the body from the station and desecrated it.
A demonstrator holds an Israeli flag with a red stamped image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face during an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
Baevsky said there was a “direct link” between the 2000 Ramallah lynching and the October 7 attack.
“Between then and October 7th, no one continued to condone, ignore, celebrate, or enable the ongoing murder, rape, and torture of Jews in the hellholes of Gaza run by Hamas. “There’s a line between people who are,” she said.
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She said the painted red hands represented “violent anti-Semitism” and emphasized that Israel was in a “war for survival.”
These hands represent the horrifying reality of the violent anti-Semitism that grips America and the world today.
“Those hands represent the horrifying reality of the violent anti-Semitism plaguing America and the world today,” Baevsky said. “Such symbols reinforce a fact: Israel is engaged in an existential war with the destroyer of civilization, and all civilized societies, including the United States, believe that Israel is doing so. We should understand the risks of being denied the right to protect ourselves from nihilism.”
Members of the anti-war activist group Code Pink sat behind speakers testifying about Middle East stability, global shipping and the Iranian-backed Houthi threat to U.S. military personnel, and raised their red-painted hands throughout their testimony. was. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Protesters block the cafeteria in the Dirksen Senate Building at the Capitol on April 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. The protest was organized by Christians for a Free Palestine, with shouts and songs calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, members of the far-left anti-war group Code Pink gathered inside the Dirksen Senate Building in New York to protest Israel’s war. Washington DC
U.S. Capitol Police confirmed to Fox News that more than 50 people were arrested during the protests.
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Demonstrators chanted, “The Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats!”
FOX News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
