GOP senator insults Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing
Source: The hill
by Juliann Ventura - 09/17/24 6:13 PM ET
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told an Arab American witness that she should hide [her] head in a bag after repeatedly asking her if she supported Hamas and Hezbollah during a Tuesday congressional hearing.
You should hide your head in a bag, Kennedy told Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, who was adamant she did not support Hamas or violence by any group.
Berry said she found the line of questioning exceptionally disappointing.
I think its exceptionally disappointing that youre looking at an Arab American witness before you and saying, You support Hamas,' she said.
Berry testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside witnesses from the National Jewish Advocacy Center and Bard Center for the Study of Hate. The conversation touched on antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate, specifically on college campuses.
You support Hamas, do you not? Kennedy asked Berry.
Oddly enough, Im going to say thank you for that question because it demonstrates the purpose of our hearing today, she said, before he interrupted, asking for a yes or no answer.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4885035-senator-kennedy-arab-american-witness/
Kennedy was rude-very rude
.@SenJohnKennedy
: You support Hamas, do you not?
@AAIUSA
's Maya Berry: Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support...You asking the executive director of the Arab American Institute that question very much puts the focus on the issue of hate in our country?
Link to tweet
Delphinus
(12,040 posts)is appalling behavior.
Comfortably_Numb
(4,037 posts)moniss
(5,018 posts)before. There are people who knew him when he was younger and he never had the drawl and corn pone nonsense. An act.
Comfortably_Numb
(4,037 posts)RussBLib
(9,490 posts)...is there nothing the GOP will not project?
https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1
Deuxcents
(18,509 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(307 posts)Their ignorance, cruelty, hatred , racism and sexism is on display. It is sad that one of the most important government pillars is crawling with stupid and corrupt republicans.
SupportSanity
(730 posts)It would've been better if someone with really good aim and the gavel was in charge there. Better use of the gavel.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Mama used to say that.
oasis
(51,292 posts)redemption.
drmeow
(5,170 posts)you look up rude in the dictionary and it has his picture next to it.
BaronChocula
(2,143 posts)Grins
(7,689 posts)Tired of Senators in the do-called upper house pulling crap like this without an in-your-face pushback.
C0RI0LANUS
(830 posts)Source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christy-abizaid-national-counterterrorism-center-stepping-down/
RandiFan1290
(6,331 posts)mahina
(18,650 posts)Shame on him.