Rep. Rashida Tlaib dodges censure vote in House

“Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) dodged a censure vote in the House over her history of anti-Israel remarks and participating in a pro-Palestinian protest last month that spilled into a Capitol office building.

The lower chamber on Wednesday night voted 222-185 to block a resolution to censure Tlaib after Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) introduced the measure last week.

Every Democrat voted to table the resolution, along with Michigan GOP Reps. John Moolenaar, Tim Walberg and Bill Huizenga and 20 other Republican lawmakers.

Thirteen other Democrats and 12 Republicans were absent.

After Green introduced the resolution to censure Tlaib, Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) responded by forcing a later vote to censure Greene in a tit-for-tat exchange on the House floor last week.

Greene’s resolution faults Tlaib for “antisemitic activity, sympathizing with terrorist organizations, and leading an insurrection at the United States Capitol Complex.”

The Michigan Democrat has made controversial remarks about the Holocaust, amplified a slogan from the Palestine Liberation Organization that calls for the destruction of Israel and said the Jewish state has an “apartheid government.”

Tlaib, 47, also denounced Israel’s “occupation” of the Palestinian territories the day after Hamas terrorists invaded from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 to rape, maim, burn and kill civilians.

The jihadists murdered more than 1,400 — at least 33 of whom were American citizens. More than 200 civilians were also taken hostage.

“[I]nstead of denouncing the horrors of Hamas slaughtering Israelis and demanding the release of all hostages held by Hamas, Rashida Tlaib stated on October 8, 2023, ‘’The path to the 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 resolution notes.

It also draws attention to her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest organized by the left-wing group Jewish Voice for Peace, which swarmed the Cannon House Office Building on Oct. 18 to demand a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The demonstration “followed Hezbollah’s orders to carry out a ‘day of unprecedented anger’ following an explosion at a Gazan hospital,” according to Greene’s resolution.

Tlaib has declined to blame Palestine Islamic Jihad for a rocket that hit al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City — despite US intelligence and the Israel Defense confirming the Hamas-linked terror group was responsible for the blast.

The resolution, which also referred Tlaib’s actions to the House Ethics and Foreign Affairs Committees, was co-sponsored by Reps. John Carter and Randy Weber of Texas, Mike Collins of Georgia, Mary Miller of Illinois, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, Burgess Owens of Utah, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina and Mike Rogers of Alabama.