BRAVE PROTESTER TO BLINKEN: 'YOU ARE A MONSTER'

On 14 January, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s speech on the ‘Middle East,’ or what we call West Asia, was interrupted several times by pro-Palestine protesters. They called him complicit for his work providing US arms, funds and diplomatic cover to Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza.

The protester in this clip called him a ‘monster,’ while another during the same speech called him the ‘secretary of g*nocide.’

Since 7 October 2023, Israel had k*lled more than 186,000 Palestinians as of early July, according to a Lancet medical journal estimate. This month, the journal reported Gaza authorities may have undercounted deaths by 41 per cent.

The protester mentioned that a group has been camped outside his home to appeal to his conscience for over a year, yet they had not received a response. In July 2024, authorities forced a six-month-long protest encampment off the road across from Blinken's home in the US state of Virginia, just outside Washington. Protesters returned despite the police and the Virginia Department of Transportation referring to the protest as 'illegal' and 'unsafe.'

Video credit: @skynews

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjS77L-KzAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoQVPrG1n8 

https://truthout.org/articles/secretary-of-genocide-blinken-speech-interrupted-by-pro-palestine-protesters/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/7/us-spends-more-than-20bn-in-aid-to-israel-middle-east-conflicts-report

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/deaths-from-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-undercounted-by-41-percent-study-finds 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/protesters-seek-return-near-blinkens-home-as-police-cost-tops-340k/3726822

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/02/06/tony-blinken-house-protest-camp-gaza-ceasefire