Rae Abileah
Rae AbileahIsrael news photo: CODE PINK

One person heckled Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his speech to Congress Tuesday. The voice belonged to none other than a left-wing Jewish CODEPINK activist, who was quickly whisked out of the Congressional chambers after shouting, "Stop Israeli war crimes.”

Rae Abileah, in her late 20s and one of the group's national organizers, made her comment as the Prime Minister congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama for the elimination of Osama Bin Laden, adding "Good riddance"!

After the incident, she said in a statement released by CODEPINK, “Prime Minister Netanyahu says that the 1967 borders are indefensible. But what is really indefensible is the occupation of land, the starvation of Gaza, the jailing of dissenters and the lack of equal rights in the alleged Israeli democracy. As a Jew and an American taxpayer, I can’t be silent when these crimes are being committed in my name and with my tax money.”

The Prime Minister, who has faced much worse taunts in Israel’s contentious Knesset, laughed off the remark by praising the United States for being a “real democracy,” unlike the “farcical” regimes of Iran and elsewhere.

He suggested that Congressmen watch the Knesset in action to get a real taste of what heckling is like.