Josh Hawley coolly handles raving Code Pink radicals and calls out their support for terrorism

Sen. Josh Hawley was mobbed this week by members of the leftist group Code Pink — so-called feminists evidently rankled by the Missouri Republican's ongoing support for Israel. Hawley responded with an unflinching condemnation of terrorism that not only drove the radicals raving mad but prompted them to show their cards.

The incident unfolded Wednesday afternoon in the Senate Hart building — the same building where Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin's former staffer filmed himself engaging in sodomy without legal consequence.

A rabble of Code Pink leftists protesting Israel's war on Islamic terrorism were camped out in the hall, yelling at various lawmakers as they made their way over to vote on potential aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. When came Hawley's turn down the hall, a woman wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh snapped her fingers in Hawley's face, saying, "Don't give us your talking points."

In one video of the incident, another protester can be seen attempting to lower the snapping hand of the woman in the keffiyeh. However, she proceeds to wag a finger at Hawley, saying, "You are unbelievable."

Hawley responds, "The state of Israel has a right to defend itself."

One Code Pink protester, ostensibly the group's co-founder Medea Benjamin, chimes in, "So does Palestine!"

The woman in the Palestinian scarf counters that Israel's self-defense is "not defense."

"And I won't call for a ceasefire until Hamas is eliminated," continues Hawley.

The senator's invocation of the terrorist group prickles the woman in the keffiyeh, who leans over with widened eyes to say, "Hamas will never be eliminated."

"Eliminated!" Hawley adds.

As the protester feverishly yells out after Hawley, calling him "foolish," Hawley sets her straight: "You're an anti-Semite. ... If you guys had your way, there'd be a second Holocaust. That's what you want. Pro-terrorist."

In another video of the exchange, Hawley can be heard saying to the Code Pink protesters, "I wish I had an Israel flag to wave."

Code Pink has long campaigned against Israel and supported so-called Palestinian liberation. The so-called feminist group appears keen to overlook the barbaric treatment of women, girls, and non-straights in Gaza and the West Bank, just as it has glossed over the crimes committed against humanity by the communist regime in Beijing — which Code Pink stresses "is not our enemy."

Code Pink has made explicit its support for Palestinian violence against Israel and refers to the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which left thousands of Israelis and dozens of Americans dead and thousands more wounded, as "resistance."

The group states on its website that the Hamas terror attacks "must be understood in the context of resistance to a 75-year Israeli occupation, in which a Jewish state was violently established on stolen Palestinian land."

According to Code Pink, "Israel cannot 'defend' itself.

"Israel's use of violence only enforces an oppressive occupation. Conversely, Palestinians resisting their oppression act defensively, as they have been victims of offensive attacks by Israel since its illegitimate inception in 1948," says the group's website.

In recent weeks, Code Pink has called on the Biden administration to restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees despite clear indications that 12 UNWRA employees participated in the October attacks.

Hawley is apparently not the only senator the pro-terrorism group heckled this week. They also mobbed Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), John Kennedy (R-La.), and others.

Cruz and Rubio responded especially forcefully.

Cruz said, "So why are you not troubled with Hamas terrorists? ... Killing Hamas makes Israel safe."

When the Code Pink protesters pressed Rubio on the deaths of children in Gaza, the Florida senator replied, "Hamas is responsible for killing all those children. ... Hamas kills children. Hamas is an evil organization. I hope Israel destroys Hamas. That's what I hope and I wanna help Israel destroy Hamas."

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