{"id":4467,"date":"2025-12-27T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:21:19","slug":"a-symbolic-demonstration-street-theater-performance-staged-by-pro-palestine-activists-outside-washington-d-c-s-union-station-in-november-2025-ahead-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/12\/27\/a-symbolic-demonstration-street-theater-performance-staged-by-pro-palestine-activists-outside-washington-d-c-s-union-station-in-november-2025-ahead-of-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A symbolic demonstration, street-theater performance\u00a0staged by pro-Palestine activists outside Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Union Station in November 2025, ahead of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>protest street-theater performance<\/strong>\u00a0staged by pro-Palestine activists outside Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Union Station in November 2025, ahead of Thanksgiving. It was a symbolic demonstration, not a real dinner where leaders actually ate human organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The performance featured activists wearing masks of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. President Donald Trump<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. President Joe Biden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. Senator Marco Rubio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These individuals were depicted sitting around a table set with fake, bloodied body parts and red liquid, symbolizing the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza conflict. A menu sign displayed items such as &#8220;Starter: Gaza children&#8217;s limbs,&#8221; &#8220;Main: Stolen Organs,&#8221; and &#8220;Drink: Gaza&#8217;s spilled blood,&#8221; intended to highlight the organizers&#8217; claims about the human toll of the war and U.S. support for Israel&#8217;s military actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cWhile you dine for Thanksgiving, the children of Gaza are starving\u201d\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aE3MB0kquy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers stated the act was meant to expose how U.S. leaders continue to supply weapons and provide diplomatic protection while Palestinians face bombardment and famine. The display drew significant criticism from Jewish organizations, which condemned it as a &#8220;blood libel&#8221; and an act of antisemitism, referencing an old, dangerous antisemitic trope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A demonstration outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., showed U.S. and Israeli leaders eating and drinking the blood and organs of Gaza Palestinians, Nov. 20, 2025.(photo credit:&nbsp;SCREENSHOT\/JTA)ByPHILISSA CRAMER\/JTANOVEMBER 21, 2025 18:49Updated:&nbsp;NOVEMBER 21, 2025 18:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-874732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-Israel<\/a>&nbsp;guerrilla art demonstration at the main train station in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-874681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington, DC<\/a>, on Thursday that portrayed US and Israeli leaders drinking the blood of Gazans is drawing criticism for channeling the blood libel levied against Jews throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeldom have we seen such a sickening display of full-throated antisemitism,\u201d the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington said in a statement late Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest featured five people in suits wearing masks representing Israeli\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-874703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, President Donald Trump and other officials. They were covered in fake blood, sitting at a long table set with bloodied doll limbs, glasses of red liquid and plates of what looked like organ meat. Israeli flags acted as napkins as the participants mopped blood from their faces.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outbrain.com\/what-is\/default\/en\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sign in ornate font laid out a menu: \u201cStarter: Gaza children\u2019s limbs.\u201d \u201cMain: Stolen Organs.\u201d \u201cDessert: Illegally harvested skin.\u201d \u201cDrink: Gaza\u2019s spilled blood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each place setting had a name, showing Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former President Joe Biden and his secretary of state, Antony Blinken. At Netanyahu\u2019s seat, a place card showed \u201cMileikowsky,\u201d his family\u2019s name in Europe from before his father moved to pre-state Israel and adopted a Hebrew surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewish groups swiftly denounced the display, which was shared by both its supporters and critics on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Activism, performance art or blood libel?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDressed up as \u2018activism\u2019 and \u2018performance art,\u2019 this was nothing less than the revival of one of the oldest and most dangerous antisemitic tropes in history,\u201d said the American Jewish Committee in a statement. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-867613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blood libel<\/a>&nbsp;has fueled violence, persecution, and massacres of Jews for centuries. Seeing it resurface in our nation\u2019s capital is both horrifying and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blood libel, which in its classic form holds that Jews kill non-Jewish children to use their blood in religious rituals, including to make matzah, was leveled routinely at Jews beginning in the Middle Ages. It has since been used to justify countless deadly pogroms and vigilante actions, while a blood libel charge tore apart an upstate New York town in 1928, and the trope featured prominently in Nazi propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Videos showed the display both inside and outside of Union Station, DC\u2019s central station that sits opposite the US Capitol. It drew laudatory posts from some passersby, with one representative Instagram account calling it \u201ca popup protest using art as resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AJC added, \u201cAt a time of rising antisemitism, leaders and authorities must condemn this display and ensure that public spaces are not used to spread dangerous hate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The display was the work of prominent local pro-Palestinian activists, with two &#8211; Hazami Barada and Atefeh Rokhvand &#8211; credited for the idea in social media posts. Barada and Rokhvand organized an early encampment in Washington, while Rokhvand\u2019s Instagram bio says she is the founder of the DC-area direct action group Teachers Against Genocide. The account Dear White Staffers, which shifted during the Gaza war from advocating for Hill staffers to posting exclusively anti-Israel content, was also credited on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other participants posted online about their roles. One activist said he had learned new technical skills to be able to produce the display. Another lamented that he had to masquerade as Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The activists behind the display hinted on social media that more could be coming. Asked by one commenter why no American flag was included, one of the organizers wrote on Instagram, \u201cBibi wanted to be front and center today. 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