00:00 President Biden was interrupted by a protester during his speech at the Human Rights Campaign
00:04 National Dinner on Saturday night.
00:06 The Human Rights Campaign is an LGBTQ advocacy group.
00:09 According to The Guardian, Biden was delivering the keynote address at their annual event
00:12 when a protester shouted "Let Gaza live and cease fire now," references to the ongoing
00:17 humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
00:20 I can't hear her.
00:22 What's she saying?
00:24 Well, thank you.
00:26 Whatever you're saying, I'm going to say, I can't hear you.
00:33 Later in the evening, Biden addressed the recent fighting in Israel and Palestine.
00:36 Week ago, we saw hate manifested in another way in the worst massacred Jewish people since
00:42 the Holocaust.
00:43 The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, innocent Palestinian families and the vast majority
00:49 have nothing to do with Hamas.
00:50 They're being used as human shields.
00:51 The Biden administration has condemned the attacks on Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian
00:59 groups and has called on Israel to respect human rights in its response.
01:03 But the White House has also shied away from imposing conditions on continued U.S. aid
01:07 to Israel.
01:08 And Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded harshly to calls for a ceasefire from members
01:12 of Congress.
01:13 We believe they're repugnant and we believe they're disgraceful.
01:16 Biden also used his speech to speak out against anti-LGBTQ sentiment in the United States.
01:21 History has taught us again and again, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they're
01:30 all connected.
01:31 In the United States Congress, extreme micro-Republicans are trying to undo virtually every bit of
01:36 progress we've made.
01:38 And he urged others to be vocal as well.
01:40 We've got to stand up and holler.
01:42 You cannot be silent.
01:44 Silence is complicity.
01:46 that was one thing on which everyone in the room could agree.
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