May 24
An eclectic gathering of demonstrators protesting the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual meeting in Washington, DC prompted cat calls from passing AIPAC delegates as well as suspicions that some of the protesters were planted among the demonstrators by circles friendly to AIPAC.
Several AIPAC delegates shouted "shame on you" to the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim protesters gathered across the street from the AIPAC venue. Referring to the protesters, other AIPAC attendees asked, "Why are these people allowed to be here?"
This year, Neturei Karta rabbis, who reject Zionism and the Jewish state of Israel, and pro-Palestinian protesters, were joined for the first time by members of the vocal "anti-war" group Code Pink.
Code Pink set up a platform with a sound system on May 22 for various speakers to voice their opposition to AIPAC and Israel's policies.
However, one veteran anti-war demonstrator who has attended a number of past protests against the AIPAC meeting, expressed concern that Code Pink had permitted an AIPAC spokeswoman to use the group's sound system, set up in a park across the street from the DC Convention Center, to voice support for AIPAC and Israel on Sunday, the day President Obama addressed the group.
In addition, three individuals, including medical doctor and clown Patch Adams, brought to the demonstration by Code Pink, conducted a "mooning" of AIPAC delegates on their way to and from the convention center.
The veteran anti-war protester felt that Code Pink was harming the legitimate protesters by engaging in a circus atmosphere. Similar complaints about Code Pink have been made by those who point to the group's antics during televised congressional hearings.
Although AIPAC may have infiltrated the anti-Israel demonstrators, it appears that the anti-war protesters had their own "plants" inside AIPAC. One AIPAC delegate quietly slipped an internal AIPAC document, titled "AIPAC talking points," to one of the protesters.
One perk for AIPAC disappeared during this year's annual meeting.
In years past, the DC Metropolitan Police provided escorts for the buses ferrying delegates to and from the convention center and area hotels.
However, a DC police officer at the demonstration. told WMR that the police escorts were canceled this year "thanks to Charlie Sheen."
In April, DC police came under criticism for providing escorts to the former "Two and a Half Men" television star from Dulles International Airport to his live performance in downtown Washington.
Washington police chief Cathy Lanier ordered a suspension, pending a "review," of all such escorts, including those for AIPAC delegates.
Ironically, Sheen, who was fired from his television show after he referred to its co-creator Chuck Lorre as "Chaim Levine," said by some to have been an anti-Semitic comment, was partly responsible for having AIPAC delegates stripped of their police escorts.
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