Max Blumenthal and I confront Blinken on the US-Israeli genocide. I am literally carried out, manhandled, and handcuffed after Blinken talks about the importance of a free press.
By Sam Husseini, Reposted from Husseini/Substack
Max Blumenthal (see below) and myself were forced out of the State Dept. as Blinken pontificated on freedom of the press and other lofty goals he claims the US government holds dear.
I was carried off, seriously manhandled, and handcuffed, but I’m back home. The support I’ve gotten from people has been great. Several people caught video and I’ll be posting a better one by Decensored News but here’s what the journalist Ryan Grim captured:
Reporter @samhusseini was just physically dragged from Blinken’s briefing. “Why aren’t you at The Hague?” he asked. pic.twitter.com/Nvs10aFjgh
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 16, 2025
My intention was to ask tough questions at every opportunity during the news conference. State personnel obviously cut this short. The questions I had before me are below with minor edits. I’ve linked to pieces or even past questioning I’ve done on each question—
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Was the point of the May 31 announcement to block the implementation of the May 24 ICJ order? (This is what Biden and Blinken have been touting this week.)
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Why do you refuse to recognize the Geneva Conventions as applying to Gaza? (This is especially ironic with Blinken claiming he would answer questions today when Liam Cosgrove attempted to follow up on my questioning on this, Blinken refused to comment on the record, see video. I chimed in with this questioning early, not sure if anyone caught it on video, and that might have especially compelled them to get me out of the room; they don’t want people to realize they refused to apply the Geneva Convention to the Palestinians. See my piece: “Is ‘Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself’ Code for ‘We Are Killing the Geneva Conventions’?”)
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Everyone from Amnesty International to South Africa accuses Israel of extermination and genocide. Why are you not in the Hague?
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Why was your stepfather Pisar connected to both Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein?
See Decensored News excellent video of Max, they will have a video of me shortly which I will crosspost. Obviously don’t rely on mainstream media coverage of this or much of anything else.
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