“If anything my voice is needed here more than ever,' she told the Detroit Free Press, as some of her colleagues seek to censure her.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib , the lone Palestinian American member of Congress, on Wednesday spoke to the Detroit Free Press about her colleagues’ motion to censure her, following a statement she made over the weekend mourning lives lost in the conflict between Israel and Palestine and calling for an end to “apartheid” in the region. A fellow member from Michigan, Rep. Jack Bergman , filed the motion against her on Wednesday.
Josh Gottheimer —who allegedly said all Muslims either should “feel guilty” or “are guilty” for Hamas’s violence during a closed-door congressional meeting this week—told Jewish Insider over the weekend, “It sickens me that while Israelis clean the blood of their family members shot in their homes, Congress should strip U.S. funding to our democratic ally and allow innocent civilians to suffer.” Rep. Elissa Slotkin said on CNN that “it shouldn’t be hard to condemn terrorists and terrorism.
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