Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Lamont issues breakfast in New Haven.

Shouting down a speaker is one of the blunt instruments of protest. Ill-informed protesters tried and failed to silence Governor Ned Lamont Wednesday morning by accusing him of supporting genocide. The handful of protesters appeared not to understand that Israel has the right to defend itself from Hamas terrorists.

The protesters, vexed about the supply of water in Gaza, seem not to understand that the residents who live there would have plenty of water if Hamas terrorists had not used pipes provided by the international community to launch missiles at Israel instead of putting them in the ground to create a proper water distribution infrastructure.

Note to bystanders at these interruptions. You would send a powerful message if you stood up and expressed your solidarity with Israel, a diverse democratic nation that is held to standards imposed on no other countries in the world.

“’They have a right to protest’ Lamont told the crowd. ‘But I’ll tell you something else. Nobody’s going to listen to them unless they lead off with the fact that they acknowledge and condemn the brutal sadistic genocidal attack of Oct. 7 and what it did to all those innocent’ civilians,” The New Haven Independent reported.

Published January 10, 2024.