{"id":31371,"date":"2024-01-29T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31371"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:24:09","slug":"dangerous-pelosi-calls-for-fbi-to-investigate-cease-fire-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/dangerous-pelosi-calls-for-fbi-to-investigate-cease-fire-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dangerous&#8217;: Pelosi Calls for FBI to Investigate Cease-Fire Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/nancy-pelosi-speaking-to-reporters.jpg?id=32254653&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=90&amp;coordinates=0%2C187%2C0%2C1147\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi speaking to reporters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;She is calling for effectively more surveillance and potential criminalization of protestors by suggesting (falsely) that they have foreign links,&#8221; said one critic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan 28, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<a href=\"https:\/\/giving.commondreams.org\/-\/XKQWGZVR\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/black-pastors-biden-gaza-israel.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday that more than 1,000 Black American pastors have joined the widespread call for a cease-fire in Gaza, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi suggested the demand was &#8220;Putin&#8217;s message&#8221; and said the FBI should investigate groups that are speaking out about Biden&#8217;s pro-Israel policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<em>CNN<\/em>, the former House speaker, a California Democrat, told Dana Bash that the &#8220;call for a cease-fire is [Russian President Vladimir] Putin&#8217;s message&#8221; and said she thinks some of the protests that have erupted across the U.S. since October to demand the U.S. push for an end to Israel&#8217;s killing of civilians in Gaza &#8220;are connected to Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think some financing should be investigated and I want to ask the FBI to investigate that,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now Nancy Pelosi is saying that protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza are connected to Russia and doing Putin\u2019s work. Unreal.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0PCR6jZLx\">pic.twitter.com\/l0PCR6jZLx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaPHilll\/status\/1751624739913957771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of progressives pointed out that the demand for a cease-fire is hardly coming from the fringes of American society, but rather from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than two-thirds of Americans<\/a>&nbsp;in a November poll by Reuters\/Ipsos. Three-quarters of Democrats in the survey backed a cease-fire, along with half of Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Times<\/em>&nbsp;detailed calls from more than 1,000 Black pastors who represent hundreds of thousands of congregants across the U.S. and who have written open letters and spoken to White House officials at sit-down meetings in support of a cease-fire,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/black-pastors-biden-gaza-israel.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warning<\/a>&nbsp;that &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be very hard to persuade our people to go back to the polls and vote for Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Intercept&nbsp;<\/em>reporter Prem Thakker&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prem_thakker\/status\/1751649106722771006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed to<\/a>&nbsp;other groups supportive of the call, including the Democratic parties of Arizona and Texas; the United Auto Workers, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/biden-uaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed&nbsp;<\/a>Biden last week; and Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So, based on Nancy Pelosi&#39;s remarks, 76% of Democrats \/ 49% of Republicans \/ 61% of Americans are potentially paid operatives of Russia who are pushing Putin&#39;s message of calling for a ceasefire??<br><br>The Democratic party leadership is in disarray. And history should not be kind to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bSTgQAyu2o\">https:\/\/t.co\/bSTgQAyu2o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NZCFsgvgGS\">pic.twitter.com\/NZCFsgvgGS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Abdullah H. Hammoud (@AHammoudMI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AHammoudMI\/status\/1751672893551919199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writer and researcher Abdullah Shihipar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AShihipar\/status\/1751629964665901145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denounced<\/a>&nbsp;Pelosi&#8217;s comments as &#8220;stupid,&#8221; but was among those who cautioned against dismissing her plan to ask the FBI to &#8220;investigate&#8221; certain pro-Palestinian rights protesters and groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She is calling for effectively more surveillance and potential criminalization of protestors by suggesting (falsely) that they have foreign links,&#8221; said Shihipar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s &#8220;serious and dangerous policy suggestion,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeerJeet\/status\/1751678631829541025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a>&nbsp;journalist Jeet Heer, &#8220;echoes LBJ\/Nixon abuse of law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/press_releases\/cair-condemns-pelosi-smear-that-gaza-ceasefire-protesters-are-spreading-mr-putins-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;the group was &#8220;deeply disturbed&#8221; by Pelosi&#8217;s &#8220;downright authoritarian&#8221; comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, Rep. Pelosi&#8217;s comments echo a time in our nation when opponents of the Vietnam War were accused of being communist sympathizers and subjected to FBI harassment,&#8221; Awad said. &#8220;Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including many young people, progressive activists, and Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian, and Black Americans, have been protesting to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Instead of baselessly smearing those Americans as Russian collaborators, former House Speaker Pelosi and other political leaders should respect the will of the American people by calling for an end to the Netanyahu government&#8217;s genocidal war on the people of Gaza,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s comments came days after a poll by The Economist\/YouGov&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/gaza-2667090415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">showed<\/a>&nbsp;a full 50% of Americans who supported Biden in 2020 believe that Israel&#8217;s bombardment of Gaza, which the U.S. has helped to fund and has vehemently defended for nearly four months, is a &#8220;genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, the International Court of Justice&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/watch-live-international-court-of-justice-delivers-ruling-in-israel-genocide-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a>&nbsp;an interim ruling in South Africa&#8217;s case against Israel, saying it is &#8220;plausible&#8221; that Israel is committing genocidal acts in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of calling on the Biden administration to heed the preliminary ruling and stop aiding Israel\u2014or even pushing the White House not to sacrifice crucial votes in the interest of backing genocidal violence\u2014Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_waleedshahid\/status\/1751656090704470035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Pelosi was spreading &#8220;unacceptable disinformation&#8230; about the positions of the vast majority of Democratic Party voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">Full Bio &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; (Photo: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) &#8220;She is calling for effectively more surveillance and potential criminalization of protestors by suggesting (falsely) that they have foreign links,&#8221; said one critic&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/dangerous-pelosi-calls-for-fbi-to-investigate-cease-fire-supporters\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31372,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions\/31372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}