Chelsea Clinton, stunned, accused by leftist activist of committing massacre in New Zealand

CHelsea Clinton was confronted in New York by a student while attending an interfaith vigil for the victims of the New Zealand massacre, which blamed Clinton's speech for the massacre.

"@Esor_Fasa", a Twitter user, posted a video of the confrontation between Leen Dweik, a New York University leader, and Clinton, who is clearly pregnant, during a vigil organized by New York University Friday night at Greenwich Village. . "

"This, right here, is the result of a massacre caused by people like you and lyrics that you have aired around the world," Dweik told Clinton in the video. "And I want you to know that and I want you to feel that deep down inside you. Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric that you have launched there.

She was referring to Clinton's comments last month about the rhetoric used by representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., In his criticism of legislators' foreign policy ties with US-Israeli relations. The first year student representative was very moved by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle for her comments, saying the Israeli Public Affairs Commission was spending considerable sums of money to buy aid from Israel.

"We should expect that all elected representatives, regardless of party, and all public figures, do not engage in anti-Semitism" tweeted Clinton, whose husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish.

Dweik said she hoped that Clinton would feel the guilt of the 49 Muslim worshipers killed in the massacre "deep within him".

"I am so sorry that you feel so," said Clinton, looking uncomfortable, who is expecting his third child this summer. "Certainly, it was never my intention. I believe words count. I believe that we must show solidarity. "

Clinton co-founded an interdenominational leadership institute at the university in 2012.

Dweik appears to be a left-wing student activist who has helped to disrupt the speech of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the university last year, and a student senator representing students from the university. Middle East and North Africa.

She later defended her actions on the Twitter account marked by the account that originally downloaded the video.

"I was on the verge of tears all day and, in fact, I cried during and after the prayer, but the charade of a vigil where more Muslims than Muslims took the floor and where Chelsea Clinton was invited to make me so viscerally angry and I will not excuse it, "tweeted Dweik.

She then added on the same Twitter feed: "The only voices that are close to my heart in this situation are those of brown students and Muslim students who were in this room. The whites shout at me via a rage on Twitter is the least of my worries. "

She tweeted that she did not want to say that Clinton was solely and directly responsible for the 49 deaths, but rather that Clinton had contributed to the heinous rhetoric used to radicalize individuals like the alleged shooter of the New Zealand massacre. Personalities like Clinton have a responsibility to be sensitive to marginalized communities, said Dweik, and Clinton's presence at the vigil after criticizing Omar was "irresponsible".

She added, "I can not believe it has to be said, but I did not tell Chelsea Clinton that it was she who had put a gun on the heads of Muslims. 39, said, and continues to say, that by jumping right wing-in-train & villifying ilhan omar, she fueled the EXACT speech that we were on the eve to protest. "

Clinton has received support from various sources, including Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Trump, who criticized the incident.

"We should all condemn anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred, we should congratulate Chelsea for speaking up, and all those who do not understand this are part of the problem," he tweeted on Saturday.