Code Pink — remember them? RedState has been covering their antics for years. Under the guise of being anti-war “feminist” protestors, they don vagina costumes and are generally the political equivalent of the annoying neighbor who always shows up at the wrong time to talk nonsense. And they won’t leave.
Here’s how they describe themselves in their X/Twitter bio:
Feminist grassroots organization working to support peace & human rights & end U.S. wars & militarism.
What they’ve actually accomplished in their years of “activism” and “protesting,” no one can say. Other than being laughed at for being silly, aging women in vagina costumes.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had a run-in with them earlier this year when some Code Pinkers accused him of supporting genocide in Gaza. He handled the situation masterfully.
“Are you concerned about the weapons that are still being sent to Israel?” one asked him.
“Yes, and many more need to be sent,” Cruz responded.
“So, you’re for the genocide of the Palestinian people?” she said.
“I’m against Hamas terrorists and I’m against the genocide that Hamas is trying to carry out,” he shot back.
They are not serious people, so they should be treated as such. What they are, however, is persistent and bothersome. They probably consider that success, but it’s not a particularly productive way to advance your goals.
Code Pink, in order to consider themselves relevant, is now embracing their inner antisemites, which they’ve been all along, and are taking their confrontational, tiresome brand of politics right into the faces of prominent American Jews.
CNN anchor Dana Bash was the latest to receive this treatment. Bash, who is Jewish, looked to be making an appearance at a synagogue when she was ambushed by gray-haired “Liz,” a “member of the community” who got in Bash’s face and accused her of being a “mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza.”
You came to a place of Jewish worship, stood on the Bhima, near the holy Torah scroll, and pretended to be congregants.
You have no shame, no decency, and no clue what you’re talking about. https://t.co/PdqzcMjP4b— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) November 15, 2024
Bash initially greets Liz in a friendly, polite manner, but things soon turned fraught when Liz chided Bash for conflating “antisemitism with anti-Zionism,” which Liz concluded was, in fact, antisemitism. Got that? Liz continued:
When you do that, I just don’t know if you understand that you are being a mouthpiece for the genocide in Gaza. That is wrong. Genocide is the most antisemitic out there.
When Bash tried to exit the situation, Liz got in the way and pushed her phone into Bash’s face, telling some incoherent tale of a Holocaust survivor who stands outside the White House every day. Liz demanded an answer … for what, is mostly unclear.
BASH: I’m not here to debate. I will just say one thing. Being anti-Israel, anti-Israel government is not antisemitic.
Liz then brought up the raging antisemitic protests that have overtaken U.S. college campuses for more than a year, to which Bash replied, “Have you been to the protests at my house?”
Bash has been the target of several antisemitic protests, some of which have happened at her home. RedState’s Nick Arama covered a September protest at a bookstore where she was promoting a book she had written about the election of 1872.
It’s clear from this video that Dana Bash is tired of being confronted by, let’s face it, her fellow Democrats, who seem intent on browbeating her until she follows the party line about the state of Israel committing genocide.
