“It’s a shame my colleagues are more focused on silencing me than they are on saving lives,” Tlaib said on Monday.
Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has received unlikely support from Republican Representative Ken Buck on Tuesday, amid attempts to censure her for comments related to the Israel-Hamas war.
On October 7, Hamas launched thousands of missiles into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. Israel subsequently launched its own rockets into Gaza, also cutting off supplies of water, food and electricity. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is at war with Hamas, launching a ground operation in Gaza.
As of Tuesday, 10,300 people have been killed in Gaza, the Associated Press (AP) reported, citing the Gaza Health Ministry. An estimated 1,400 have been killed in Israel, according to figures from AP.
Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday asking for President Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, for which the congresswoman and other progressive members of the House have been pushing.
Tlaib received criticism for her post, which featured a video with the chant, “from the river to the sea.” The phrase has different meanings for different groups.
The Anti-Defamation League describes the chant as a “call for a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, territory that includes the State of Israel, which would mean the dismantling of the Jewish state.
