Pro-Palestinian protesters halted the morning session in the House Saturday as they draped flags and banners in the House gallery and shouted at lawmakers, including yelling “blood on your hands.”

The protests were cheered by several lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Hernandez, D-Denver, who said in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that he is “standing in strong solidarity with Coloradans who bravely stood up and disrupted our job this morning calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. Over a majority of Americans now support a Ceasefire. I urge my colleagues to listen.”

Hernandez also replaced the U.S. flag on his desk Saturday with a Palestinian flag. He was among a group of Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Iman Jodeh (who is Palestinian-American), Javier Mabry, Andrew Boesenecker, Jennifer Bacon and Sen. Nick Hinrichsen, who met with the protesters after they were removed from the gallery.

The disruption did not go unnoticed by Jewish lawmakers, and Sunday, Rep. Yaron “Ron” Weinberg, R-Loveland, issued a statement condemning the protests and calling them “anti-Semitic.”

“There is no place for anti-Semitism. The comments by these protestors will not deter me from my duty to stand up and share the truth about Israel. We came here today for a very different purpose, to discuss much-needed property tax relief in our state. After comments by some of my fellow representatives and the intrusion of these protestors into the proceedings of this body, I am calling on all of my fellow state representatives to fully, publicly, and unequivocally condemn Hamas as the terrorist organization they are and the atrocities they have committed.”