Pro-Gaza protesters attempted to shut down GB News from speaking to students in a fiery exchange.
While GB News attempted to conduct interviews at a pro-Palestine protest in Washington DC, several pro-Palestine demonstrators asked students not to speak to us.
As GB News approached a male student at George Washington University, a pro-Palestine protester asked him “We would appreciate if you didn't talk to the media”.
Another protest organiser demanded GB News speak with a “media liaison officer” instead of approaching people at the protest.
Several pro-Gaza demonstrators refused to speak with GB News, with one describing the channel as being “bigoted”.
Steve Edginton spoke with students at George Washington University
GB News
Protestors defaced a statue of George Washington, the founding president of America, with pro-Palestine messages, including “Genocidal warmongering university”, and covered his face with an Arab headdress.
One George Washington student told GB News the vandalism was not appropriate and “doing stuff like that is just not going to help”.
Following this statement, a pro-Palestine protester demanded GB News speak with “students that are here that actually have [sic] to do with this movement”.
When asked about the defacing of the statue of the founder of the United States, the demonstrator said: “I think that George Washington was okay with slavery. I think that the way he set up this country was not a way that I can particularly endorse.”
She also said the message on the statue was aimed at the university that she claimed had contributed towards a “genocide” in Gaza.
The protestor said: “It was a member of the community that defaced the statue because there's an ongoing genocide, and they want to raise awareness to the genocide.”
“I do not know why you're focusing on a statue right now when there's a genocide going on at the hands of the United States. That's what we need to be focused on. We need to be focused on that.”
She continued: “Every single university in Gaza has been shut down. There have been over 100,000 casualties in the hands of the United States and at the hands of Israel, and that's what we need to be focusing on right now. I don't see how a statue is relevant to that.”
After GB News asked if she was patriotic and loved America, the demonstrator repeatedly refused to answer the question before saying: “America is propagating an ongoing genocide that has killed my family.”
She said: “I'm saying that I'm not proud of the actions taken by the government right now. They do not represent us.”
“No one, none of the students here are okay with the ongoing genocide that does not represent us as students.”
“And we want the genocide to end at the hands of Congress and at the hands of Biden.”
Several students at the protest told GB News they disagreed with the pro-Palestine messages and denied claims that America or Israel were committing a genocide in the Middle East.