GOP Reps Restore American Flags That Pro-Palestinian Vandals Burned At Union Station

Republican lawmakers replaced three American flags at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Wednesday night after a mob of anti-Israeli protesters desecrated the flags and replaced them with Palestinian ones.

The pro-Palestinian vandals tore down and burned the American flag and raised Palestinian flags to protest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address on Wednesday. Republican Reps. Brandon Williams of New York, led his GOP colleagues, including Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas and Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, in the effort to restore the American flag.

“Anti-American agitators will not have the last say,” Williams said in a press release obtained by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. “We will continue to stand for this great country, no matter what. You tear down our flag, and I will put it back up every single time! God Bless America.”

Daily Caller footage of the mob at Union Station shows protesters chanting “burn that shit” as the flag went up in flames just blocks away from the Capitol. The footage also shows law enforcement clashing with the demonstrators and using pepper spray to subdue the mobs.

“I recruited a number of fellow members of Congress, including the speaker and a bunch of Navy vets, Marine vets, and we came, brought three flags with us, and you’ll see better later, but we have restored the flags to their proper place,” Williams said in a video on X.