Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised House lawmakers for censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her calls for the eradication of the Jewish state.
The resolution to censure the Michigan Democrat, which passed Tuesday, denounced Tlaib’s “false narratives” about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and her video posted Nov. 3 on X, which included the phrase “From the river to the sea.”
“’From the river to the sea’ means there is no Israel,” Netanyahu explained during an interview with Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier.
The Israeli prime minister denounced Tlaib’s comments, calling them “absurd.”
“What this congresswoman is asking for is police crime and genocide. The elimination of the Jewish State. The only Jewish State of the Jewish people. So that is absurd,” Netanyahu said.
“And I congratulate Congress for censoring it,” he added.
“I congratulate Congress for censuring her,” Netanyahu said Thursday. via REUTERS Tlaib had posted a video on X that included the phrase “From the river to the sea.” AFP via Getty Images
Netanyahu also condemned the protests in support of Hamas and against Israel taking place in the United States and other parts of the world.
“They are aligning themselves with ISIS, with Al Qaeda, with these murderers, with these baby killers, with these rapists and with these mutilators, these head-cutters; this is what they are aligning with,” he said of Hamas supporters.
Tlaib, the first Palestinian American elected to Congress, joined pro-Palestinian activists at a protest at the US Capitol complex last month calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas.
“We need to observe people [who] I think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where there are children. [were]” he told protesters before bursting into tears, dubiously blaming Israel for a bombing of a hospital in Gaza that U.S. and Israeli officials say was the result of a rocket from a Gaza terrorist group that missed.
Tlaib became the 26th member of Congress to be censured.AP
“I think it’s very important that this has been censored,” Netanyahu said.
The Israeli prime minister went on to argue that the rise of anti-Semitic protests in the West is an “indictment” of “higher education.”
“I suppose this is a criticism of higher education in many places in the West, when supposedly educated people cannot distinguish right from wrong and right from wrong,” Netanyahu told Baier. “Hamas is evil and we have to defeat evil, not protest and demonstrate in the name of evil.”
Tlaib is the 26th member of Congress censured by the House in the history of the legislative body.
“We are human beings like anyone else,” Tlaib said Tuesday while defending herself against censure. “My grandmother, like all Palestinians, just wants to live her life with the freedom and human dignity that we all deserve. “Speaking out to save lives, Mr. President, regardless of faith or ethnicity, should not be a matter of controversy in this chamber.”
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