Above: Protester holding Latuff Cartoon of Obama toon outside the AIPAC conference.
Today was the first day of the AIPAC meeting and the protesters were out. In fact, the protests began online before the AIPAC event began. Medea Benjamin reports that “more people have seen this parody video than will attend the AIPAC conference.” That means the protests are beginning to dominate the narrative. This despite AIPAC getting YouTube to take the video down and threatening CODE PINK! with a lawsuit. (Now they add the obviously unnecessary disclaimer: “*Disclaimer: this may or may not reflect the views of AIPAC.”) AIPAC’s over-reaction shows they know they are losing ground in US public opinion.
Also before AIPAC began this infographic came out.
Throughout the day memes mocking AIPAC’s conference were coming out. Here are a few:
And, outside the AIPAC meeting there were protesters to welcome the attendees to their convention.
