On Tuesday night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for rhetoric against Israel and its war with Hamas.
According to Fox News, 212 Republicans voted along with twenty-two Democrats to censure Tlaib. On the other hand, four GOP lawmakers voted against the measure while four lawmakers voted present.
Freshman Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga, introduced the measure on Monday. Although Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga, introduced a measure to censure Tlaib last week, it failed to advance to a vote.
“If this is not worthy of censure, what is? When you can call for the annihilation of a country and its people, if that’s not worthy of censure, what is?” McCormick said on the House floor Tuesday.
In the measure, McCormick argued that Tlaib was “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md, argued that the measure is about “the punishment of speech.”
Tlaib, the first Palestinian American in Congress, came under fire from both parties for sharing a video on X, formerly Twitter, that included the pro-Palestinian…
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