Dem lawmaker screams over Kamala Harris' holiday party speech, igniting response: 'Right now, I am speaking'
President Biden has come out in opposition of cease-fire despite demands from progressives
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Vice President Harris' holiday party speech was interrupted by a Democrat state representative who called for a cease-fire in the Middle East.
Harris was in the middle of speaking at a Christmas party on Monday night when Delaware state Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton held up a sign that read "cease-fire" and began yelling at the vice president.
"Madam Vice President, I am a rep from Delaware. Did you know in Bethlehem they are not celebrating Christmas? Did you know in Bethlehem, baby Jesus is under rubble? Why won't you call for a cease-fire?" Wilson-Anton shouted.
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The vice president cut off the interrupter, saying, "I appreciate you wanting to be heard, but right now I'm speaking."
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"Call for a cease-fire now," Wilson-Anton shouted as she was seen on video being escorted out of the event.
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Most lawmakers oppose a call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, with President Biden writing in a November Washington Post op-ed that "a cease-fire is not peace."
"As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace. To Hamas’ members, every cease-fire is time they exploit to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters and restart the killing by attacking innocents again," Biden said.
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Many members of the Democrat Party and Biden's own administration have expressed disagreement with the president amid reports of White House interns sending a letter to him urging a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also broke with members of her party in calling the Biden administration's veto of a United Nations resolution that called for a cease-fire in Gaza "shameful."
"The Biden [administration] can no longer reconcile their professed concern for Palestinians and human rights while also single-handedly vetoing the UN’s call for ceasefire and sidestepping the entire US Congress to unconditionally back the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza," the Democrat wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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House progressive Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. – who was censured for chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan "from the river to the sea" – also voiced similar calls for a cease-fire.