Several hundred members of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and other leftist groups rallied in Nashville on Saturday to support the terrorist group Hamas and oppose Israel’s actions to defend itself. The rally took place one week after more than 1,200 Israelis were massacred by Hamas terrorists, who launched a sneak attack into Israel from the Gaza strip on October 7.
“This is supposed to be a retaliation against propaganda and against media trying to play this narrative that all of this started October 10th, and trying to ignore all the context related to the 75-plus years of not only occupation, but ethnic cleansing and genocide,” a woman by the name of Fatehiya,”who helped organize the pro-Palestine protest,” told WKRN.
Traffic in downtown Nashville was tied up as the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinians marched to the Legislative Plaza from 800 Broadway Street.
A counter-protest of pro-Israel supporters pushed back on the pro-Hamas narrative.
“On the seventh of this month, Israel was attacked by a bunch of monsters. They butchered kids, babies, mothers, and the elderly,” Tomer Minuskin told WKRN.
“Both my parents, my mother and my father have been in shelters since the seventh of this month. They cannot leave their houses because we still have terrorists that are outside and trying to hunt Israelis.
As The Tennessee Star reported on Saturday:
Metro Nashville Councilman Sean Parker is a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America-Middle Tennessee Chapter, which has scheduled a rally for Palestine on Saturday afternoon in downtown Nashville.
The “Emergency Rally for Gaza,” scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. in front of the Estes Kefauver Federal Building on Broadway, will be held exactly one week after the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip and raped, tortured, and systematically murdered 1,300 Israelis, most of them innocent civilians. More Jews were killed last week than on any day since the Holocaust, according to the Economist. Among the dead are 27 Americans, and a handful of U.S. nationals are part of the approximately 150 people the terrorist group took hostage.
Saturday morning, in advance of the rally, Parker tweeted that “Palestinians are welcome in Nashville,” a response to federal legislation that would prohibit the resettlement of any refugees from Gaza in the United States.
Palestinians are welcome in Nashville.
Pushing for displacement of 2mm Palestinians while blocking them from refuge is genocidal. Characterizing civilians as “terrorists” is dangerous and disgraceful. https://t.co/mjxzs8JwQl
— Sean Parker (@SeanForFive) October 14, 2023
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Michael Patrick Leahy is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Image “Pro-Palestine Protest” by ANSWER Coalition.
