What the actual hell? What about the censure for those that actually have called for the deaths of others?
Like when Matt Miller said
I don’t even want to call it the Palestinian flag because they’re not a state, they’re a territory, that’s about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly, as we’re going to turn that into a parking lot
By censuring Tlaib and not Miller, congress has clearly showed whose lives they consider meaningful.
No surprise when aid to Israel is so high on their agenda
Our for literally bringing a gun into the House Chamber directly after your fanatical base violently attacked the building with the intent to kill your political rivals. That seems slightly more worthy of censure
Yeah, don't worry about actual criminals in Congress.
Kick out Santos!
Like I said, I don't think Congress should have done it and I don't think they should have censured Adam Schiff either, but I'm not going to go crazy about it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a social media post on Friday, Tlaib defended the phrase as “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate”.
“Thank you for becoming the lesson for future generations – for solidifying the hypocrisy of this moment, when our Congress refused to vote for a ceasefire but instead to censure the ONLY Palestinian rep we have,” wrote Al-Khatahtbeh on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Peter Beinart, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism and editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, posted a message of support for Tlaib, adding that the congresswoman “exposes as a sham [other Democrats’] claim to defend human rights”.
Representative Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X that it was “not lost on anyone how many offensive, violent, and racist things people regularly hear members of Congress say, yet virtually the only one that gets censured for her political speech also happens to be the only Palestinian American.
Usamah Andrabi, spokesperson for the progressive Pac Justice Democrats called Tlaib’s censure “shameful” and “unmistakably racist” in a statement to the Guardian.
The Democratic representative Brad Schneider accused Tlaib of “inflammatory language that dangerously amplifies Hamas propaganda”, in a statement about his support of the censure.
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