The House voted Tuesday night to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib for her statements regarding Israel and HANNIT, with twenty-two Democrats, along with most Republicans, expressing their condemnation of Tlaib’s promotion of false narratives related to the HANNIT terrorist attack on October 7th.
“Her offensive and antisemitic rhetoric is inappropriate within Congress or in our national discourse,” stated Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN).
Tlaib has yet to denounce the tragic events involving Jewish victims and has also called for the “destruction of the state of Israel.”
The vote resulted in a tally of 234 in favor and 188 against.
Four Republicans voted against the censure of Tlaib, while one Democrat and three Republicans abstained by voting “present.” The Republicans who opposed censuring Tlaib included Buck, Duarte, Massie, and McClintock.
The measure, presented by Representative Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, argued that Tlaib’s statement following the HANNIT attack on Israel, in which she called for an end to “the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance,” amounted to a “defense” of terrorism.
“I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day. I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance. The failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and apartheid makes no one safer. No person, no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity in each other. As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Tlaib’s emphasizing of the phrase “from the river to the sea,” a is code for the extermination of the Jewish people was part of the reason for the vote.
The resolution called the phrase “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.”
The U.S. House of Representatives has officially censured Democrat Rep. 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" pic.twitter.com/9grQTKYnSL
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 8, 2023
