Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Israel-Gaza ceasefire protest an ‘insurrection’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called the hundreds of Capitol Hill protesters occupying part of a House office building on Wednesday “pro-Hamas” and “insurrectionists.”

The protesters were dressed in black T-shirts with the words “Jews say cease fire now” while pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza as they occupied the floor in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building.

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“There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill,” Greene said as she panned with her phone across a crowd of protesters filling the building.

A member of Greene’s staff captured a photo of an unidentified person at the protests having a text exchange with “Global Intifada.”

“MORE PHOTOS OF THE INSURRECTIONISTS PHONES!! Global Intifada and Jewish Voice for Peace are the organizing groups that antisemite and Pro-Hamas Rashida Tlaib brought in today,” she said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, while showing photos of the texts.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) joined Greene in writing a similar post on social media: “INSURRECTIONISTS are storming the Capitol in support of Hamas. They are interrupting official government proceedings. Will there be federal charges? Solitary confinement? Will FBI raid their homes? WHO PAID for their buses, signs & t-shirts?”

“These people do not want peace. They are pro-Hamas,” Greene said to Real America’s Voice amid the protest on Capitol Hill. “This is a complete setup. This is the beginning of a movement.”

Greene wrote a letter to U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger requesting that he “preserve all video surveillance footage, photographic evidence, police reports, and arrest records from all House Office Buildings on October 18, 2023.”

She added, “By launching an insurrection in the Capitol complex, these actors caused elevators to be shut down, staircases and hallways to be blocked, exits to be made inaccessible, and official legislative business to be obstructed, putting Members of Congress, their staffs, and Capitol visitors at risk.”

The Georgia congresswoman called on the Committee on House Administration to “investigate” the protest.

Greene also took aim at fellow Rep. Rashida Talib (D-MI) for “the occupation of the Cannon office building with radical Global Intifada group and anti-Israel activists JVP.”

She reposted a video of Talib outside the Capitol.

“Hamas Caucus Leader @RepRashida is leading the current insurrection on Capitol Hill,” Greene said in the post with a video of Tlaib standing before a “Ceasefire” banner speaking to pro-Palestinian activists.

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There were reportedly 300 demonstrators arrested, according to Capitol Police.

Protesters claimed they were the group Jewish Voice for Peace.