Sen. Ted Cruz was booed offstage at a conference for Middle Eastern
Christians Wednesday night after saying that “Christians have no greater
ally than Israel.”
Cruz, the keynote speaker at the sold-out D.C. dinner gala for the
recently-founded non-profit In Defense of Christians, began by saying
that “tonight, we are all united in defense of Christians. Tonight, we
are all united in defense of Jews. Tonight, we are all united in defense
of people of good faith, who are standing together against those who
would persecute and murder those who dare disagree with their religious
teachings.”
Cruz was not reading from a teleprompter, nor did he appear to be reading from notes.
“Religious bigotry is a cancer with many manifestations,” he continued. “ISIS,
al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas, state sponsors like Syria and Iran, are all
engaged in a vicious genocidal campaign to destroy religious minorities
in the Middle East. Sometimes we are told not to loop these groups
together, that we have to understand their so called nuances and
differences. But we shouldn’t try to parse different manifestations of
evil that are on a murderous rampage through the region. Hate is hate,
and murder is murder. Our purpose here tonight is to highlight a
terrible injustice, a humanitarian crisis.”
“Christians have no greater ally
than Israel,” he said, at which point members of the crowd began to yell
“stop it” and booed him.
EWTN News Nightly’s Jason Calvi caught the moment on video.
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