At a lecture on sexual violence, Clinton was heckled over her record of fomenting conflict in the Middle East
Pro-Palestine demonstrators heckled Hillary Clinton at a lecture on Friday, calling the former US secretary of state a “war criminal” and telling her that she “will burn” for her actions in the Middle East.
Clinton was interrupted as she took the stage to deliver a lecture on conflict-related sexual violence at Columbia University in New York, where she is a professor of international and public affairs.
“Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal!” one man shouted. “The people of Libya, the people of Iraq, the people of Syria, the people of Yemen, the people of Palestine as well as the people of America will never forgive you,” the protester continued, shouting “you will burn” as he was escorted from the theater.
The former presidential candidate began her speech, but was interrupted and shouted down by a second protester.
At a Columbia event today, @HillaryClinton and @USAmbUN are facing protests over their support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza: pic.twitter.com/uOMCdI6fiw
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“You’ve done this before… You exploited sexual violence in Libya so you could justify US militarization,” the protester exclaimed. “If you were enraged about sexual violence, you’d be talking about the sexual violence in Palestine and the sexual violence that they endure daily.”