Kamala Harris admits Israel committing genocide in Gaza

Milwaukee (Quds News Network)- US Vice President Kamala Harris publicly agreed with a pro-Palestine protestor who interrupted her to accuse Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.

The protester interrupted Harris on Thursday while addressing a group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

“I am so invested in you all, in every way,” Harris can be heard saying as the interruption began.
“And in genocide right?” the protestor said.

“Billions of dollars in genocide. Billions of dollars in genocide.”

“I’m speaking right now,” Harris said before adding: “I know what you’re speaking of. I want the ceasefire. I want the war to end. And I respect your right to speak but I am speaking right now.”

“But what about the genocide? What about the genocide though?” the protestor, wearing a keffiyeh, yelled.

The man was then escorted out of the hall while yelling, “19,000 children are dead, and you won’t call it a genocide.”

In the silence that followed his exit, Harris turned back to the audience.

“Listen, what he’s talking about, it’s real. That’s not the subject that I came to discuss today, but it’s real and I respect his voice,” Harris said.

The protestor was seemingly a member of the group UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine Coalition, which posted a video of the incident on their Instagram.

Alongside the video, the group wrote that they had staged a massive student protest of Harris’s talk at four locations outside the hall, and that a student had interrupted the talk.

“When exiting the event, her motorcade was forced to pass right by all of the protesters,” the statement added.

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According to social media reports, some of the pro-Palestine protesters outside the event refused to move away and lay on the ground.

The vice president has never previously suggested that Israel’s current assault in Gaza amounts to a genocide of Palestinian people.

Israel has faced accusations that it is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to genocidal acts, with South Africa bringing its case against Israel before the United Nations court in The Hague in December, accusing it of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The death toll from Israel’s assault there, which began in October, has surpassed 42,000, according to health officials in the besieged and bombarded territory.

South Africa’s case argues that Israel violated the 1948 Genocide Convention, which was established in the aftermath of the Holocaust and requires all countries to prevent the recurrence of such crimes. Such cases can take years to conclude.

In May, US President Joe Biden declared, “What’s happening is not genocide. We reject that,” reassuring Jewish voters that he stands firmly with Israel while denouncing the International Criminal Court’s assertion that Israel’s leaders are guilty of war crimes for their assault in Gaza.

The Biden administration has set a record by spending at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel in the year following October 7, 2023, according to a recent report by Brown University’s Costs of War project.