Horrific Blood Libel
Shocking Anti Israel Protest Takes Place in Washington DC
With U.S. antisemitism at record highs (tied to Gaza war), this stunt's timing, pre-Thanksgiving, in D.C.'s power corridor, feels like a deliberate escalation.
A grotesque "performance art" protest happened inside and outside Washington, D.C.'s iconic Union Station on November 20.
The video attached shows masked activists dressed as world leaders, think Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, and others, staging a mock "Friendsgiving" dinner. They're "feasting" on fake severed limbs, organs, and "Gaza's spilled blood" from wine glasses, complete with a menu listing items like "harvested skin grafts" and "child's heart tartare."
Organized by anti-Israel activists (reports point to two key figures: Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime and possibly ties to Palestinian Youth Movement), this was billed as "Israel's Friendsgiving," a twisted Thanksgiving parody timed for the holiday week. Protesters set up a banquet table right in the station's main hall (a massive federal transport hub opposite the Capitol, where lawmakers and tourists swarm daily). They draped it with red-stained cloths, piled on prop body parts doused in fake blood, and role-played leaders chowing down while chanting about "genocide" and "organ harvesting" in Gaza.
When Amtrak cops shut it down inside within five minutes (citing public safety and disruption), they just dragged the horror show outside and kept going. Videos captured the chaos: masks, screams, and graphic props that looked straight out of a horror flick.
This isn't "edgy activism" - it's a straight-up revival of the blood libel, a medieval antisemitic conspiracy theory accusing Jews of kidnapping and murdering non-Jewish (often Christian) children to drain their blood for rituals like making matzah. It fueled pogroms, expulsions, and the Holocaust (Nazi propaganda leaned hard on it). Here, it's repackaged as "Israel eats Palestinian kids' organs." a modern twist on the trope, blending it with unproven claims of IDF "harvesting" (debunked by fact-checkers like Reuters, but viral in pro-Palestine circles).
Jewish groups are livid: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) called it "the revival of one of the oldest and most dangerous antisemitic tropes," warning it "fuels violence and massacres."
The ADL labeled it "abhorrent," and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater DC said it felt "right at home in Nazi Germany," especially since it happened steps from Congress.
Protesters' defenders? Crickets or deflections like "it's just satire on Gaza atrocities." But media from Townhall to JTA and i24NEWS piled on, calling it a "modern blood libel" that endangers Jews amid a 2025 surge in U.S. incidents (ADL reports 25+ daily, many Israel-linked).
Union Station's no stranger to this hate: swastikas popped up there post-Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2022.
In short: It's a stomach-turning protest masquerading as "art" that dredges up the worst Jew-hating fever dream imaginable, and it's a stark reminder: In 2025, blood libels are back, with keffiyehs and hashtags.