The House Censures Rashida Tlaib, After Heated Debate, for Embracing Slogan Seen as Calling for Destruction of Israel, ‘From the River to the Sea’
Feuding House members yelled at each other to ‘shut up’ and lobbed accusations of ‘lying’ while they debated Ms. Tlaib’s fate.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in the House of Representatives, has been censured by her colleagues for “promoting false narratives,” and for her embrace of the slogan “from the river to the sea,” which is widely considered to be a rallying cry for the abolition of the State of Israel. For her part, Ms. Tlaib, who this weekend posted a video online of pro-Hamas protesters in Michigan chanting the slogan, calls it “aspirational.”
The House voted 234 to 188 in favor of censure, with four members voting present. In total, 22 Democrats joined with the vast majority of their Republican colleagues to condemn Ms. Tlaib’s remarks, making her just the fourth member to be censured by the House in the 21st century. Four Republicans voted against censure. The measure to censure Ms. Tlaib was introduced by a GOP representative, Rich McCormick.
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