07/08/2025
As President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu spoke inside the White House Monday night, protesters outside threw shoes at cardboard cutouts portraying the heads of the two leaders and demanded an arms embargo to Israel.
Protesters decried Trump and Netanyahu's meeting as "an agenda for normalization, normalizing genocide, normalizing occupation, and eliminating any space for resistance to the Zionist and imperialist project."
"This is happening while we are witnessing 21 months of genocide!" said anti-Zionist Rabbi Dovid Feldman. "We are witnessing little children being starved to death. This is unacceptable!"
"We as Jewish people are embarrassed when the state of Israel commits its crimes supposedly in the name of all Jews."
"The Jewish religion is being misused to justify all these crimes! Shame!"
"Usually when I go to these demonstrations I'm giving instructions not to incite violence," said Rafiki Morris of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. "I'm thinking that maybe we've reached the point where we need to be doing something that we wouldn't normally do!"
"The things that we normally do don't work!" he said.
"Violence doesn't work either!" a CODEPINK member pushed back.
"Tell the Zionist pigs in Israel that violence doesn't work!" Morris retorted to cheers.
"Smash Zionism!" the crowd chanted. "Death to the IDF!"
Protesters raised their arms for a pledge to "denounce the genocide the Palestinian people."
"I affirm that all Palestinian refugees have the right to return. I affirm that Palestinians have the right to resist colonization and occupation!"
"I commit to raising my voice for every single Palestinian and until the total and complete liberation of Palestine! I pledge anti-genocide!"
"Death, death to the IDF!"
The rally at the White House concluded with a final opportunity to throw shoes at and stomp on cardboard cutouts of Trump and Netanyahu.
Filmed by Ford Fischer
