Anti-Israel protesters swarmed former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as he crossed Union Park in Chicago, just blocks from the DNC.
“Racist go home! Racist go home!” the demonstrators shouted at Ramaswamy as his security detail formed a bubble of protection around him.
It was then that the performance artist “Crackhead Barney” appeared.
“Why are you a genocidal warmonger?” she cried.
The internet personality has made headlines for harassing Alec Baldwin in an anti-Israel temper tantrum at a coffee shop in the Big Apple — and later hamming it up on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” about the incident.
Barney’s age and real name are unknown, but the provocateur is based in New York.
She first came to prominence for getting MAGA rally attendees hackles up as an ambush interviewer in recent years, but has more recently focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ramaswamy, 39, waded into the topic of the tense protests himself earlier Thursday, taking note of how well-guarded the Democrats’ convention was from the anti-Israel protesters.
“I’m grateful that Democrats appear to now agree with Donald Trump’s policy of building a wall,” he said in a press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago.
“If only they cared as much about keeping illegals out of our country as they do keeping their own left-wing protesters out of their own convention, our border crisis would actually be behind us,” he zinged.
Ramaswamy was one of the few Republican presidential primary contenders to oppose further US military aid funding for Israel in its war against Hamas terrorists — potentially giving him a point of agreement with the demonstrators who harassed him on Thursday.
He also opposed clamping down on the free speech of college protesters who sprung up on campuses since the Oct. 7 massacre — even when it veers into hate speech.
“Hate speech is the expression of an opinion, and all opinions, no matter how heinous, are protected,” Ramaswamy told NBC News last October.
