Anti-Israeli protesters have arrange an encampment outdoors the house of Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), who has decried their exercise as harassment.
Landsman, who’s Jewish, shared a photograph on-line of a gaggle of demonstrators outdoors his residence. The protests are going down a yr after the Oct. 7, 2023, assaults by Hamas on Israel.
“A group of masked anti-Israel protesters assembled outside my home early Sunday morning and remained through the evening, forcing police to escort my family in and out of our house for safety,” Landsman posted on social platform X.
The protesters refused to depart the realm and arrange tents, cots and sleeping luggage and had been “harassing my family outside of our home,” he stated.
In a press launch, Landsman stated he and his daughter deliberate to attend a service on Monday to “bear witness to the atrocious terror attacks of October 7th.”
“Meanwhile, these people will be outside of my house, in an attempt to intimidate my Jewish family every time we try to leave our home,” Landsman stated. “They’ve accomplished this to my employees and me for almost a yr, and now they’re doing it to my household and neighbors. I don’t suppose they’ve any boundaries at this level. Our household hopes they depart quickly and protest in a extra applicable and fewer intrusive method.”
Landsman concluded by expressing his due to the Cincinnati Police Division for preserving he and his household protected.
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In accordance with a video shared on Instagram, protesters are masked, carrying black and marching down Landsman’s road. They arrange banners about Palestinians in Gaza, the place Israel has launched a struggle to go after Hamas, which controls the realm. Greater than 40,000 have been killing in that preventing, in accordance with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
“We’ve set up camp outside Greg Landsman’s home to send a clear message: his complicity in genocide will not be forgotten and we will not forget our martyrs,” the group’s put up stated.
A spokesperson for the group instructed The Related Press that the group had no intention of leaving quickly and that “this is not and never been something to do with religion.”
Landsman’s workplace stated the demonstrators had been nonetheless outdoors his home Monday.
It’s not the primary time he has been a goal of protests associated to the battle. Some posters had been positioned outdoors a constructing in his district with inflammatory language final yr, The Related Press reported.
