Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the House has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for her support of Hamas' October 7 attack as well as her calls for Israel to be wiped off the map in her chant for Palestine to be free "from the river to the sea."
This is great.
22 Democrats joined 212 Republicans, censuring the Michigan Democrat in a 234 - 188 vote Tuesday evening. While largely a formality, it is nice to see 22 Dems switch sides for the vote. It appears anti-Semitism is still frowned upon by some on the Left.
Some text from the resolution:
Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel…
Whereas Representative Rashida Tlaib, within 24 hours of the October 7 barbaric attack on Jewish citizens of the State of Israel, representing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, defended the brutal rapes, murders, be-headings, and kidnapping - including of Americans - by Hamas as justified ‘‘resistance'' to the ‘‘apartheid state''...
Whereas on October 18, 2023, Representative Tlaib continued to knowingly spread the false narrative that Israel intentionally bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17 after United States intelligence, Israeli intel- ligence, and President Biden assessed with high confidence that Israel did not cause the explosion;
Whereas on November 3, 2023, Representative Tlaib published on social media a video containing the phrase ‘‘from the river to the sea'', which is widely recognized as a genocidal call to violence to destroy the state of Israel and its people to replace it with a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Pretty plain and simple, folks. Calling for the destruction of Israel is not something we do on stage in American politics. Spreading Hamas propaganda — the debunked hospital story — again, not something we do in American politics. And, of course, justifying a terrorist attack which led to the loss of 1,400 lives, not something we do in American politics.
These are all things we shouldn't even be doing in our private lives, let alone as a representative of the United States of America.
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