During a speech on Tuesday honoring 400 years of democracy in America, President Trump was interrupted by a Virginia Democrat lawmaker with a history of making anti-semitic remarks.
According to Fox News:
The Virginia Democratic lawmaker who disrupted President Trump’s speech in Jamestown on Tuesday has a history of making anti-Israel remarks on social media.
Ibraheem Samirah, a Virginia state delegate, interrupted Trump’s event commemorating the 400th anniversary of the first legislative assembly in the U.S. by shouting: “You can’t send us back! Virginia is our home!”
Samirah’s protest was apparently in response to Trump’s comments about the “Squad” earlier this month, when he suggested that Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” and then return to show how it’s done.
But Samirah, a Palestinian-American, has his own history of controversial comments—specifically related to Israel.
Samirah has shared post comparing the funding of Israel to the funding of white supremacist groups.