Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan accused the president on Friday of supporting a Palestinian “genocide” and warned that Americans will remember when he is re-elected next year how he responded to the war between Israel and Hamas.
In a video posted on XTlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, urged Biden to call for a ceasefire in the conflict, which the president and his administration so far it has not been done.
“Mr. President, the American people are not with you on this issue,” Tlaib said in the video, adding, “We will remember this in 2024.”
The video, which includes footage of protests with chants of “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea” in Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, ends with text that reads: “Joe Biden supported the genocide. of the Palestinian people,” “The American people will not forget,” “Biden, support the ceasefire now,” and “Or don’t count us out in 2024.”
The White House declined to comment on the video. CNN has also reached out to Tlaib’s office.
Tlaib, a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights, has been the most outspoken critic of Israel in Congress since her election in 2018. In recent weeks, she has upset some of her colleagues determined to present a front unique in the middle of the war between Israel and Hamas as divisions. have it got more personal.
Tlaib did not directly condemn Hamas in his statement the following day from the Palestinian militant group launched surprise cross-border raids of Gaza on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people and taking hundreds of hostages.
“I mourn the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day. I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights and human dignity,” she said in part, adding: “The path to that future must ‘include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating and dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance. Failing to acknowledge the violent reality of living under siege, occupation and apartheid does not make anyone safer.”
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted after the Second World War, define genocide as “acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”. Biden has previously said that the atrocities being uncovered in Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion qualifies as “genocide,” but this statement last year it did not lead to any immediate change in American policy toward the conflict.
Biden has resisted calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, even at the United Nations, and has instead said it supports so-called humanitarian pauses to allow the release of hostages held there. Israel has a “responsibility”, the President of the United States has said, to defend its citizens from terrorism. Neither he nor anyone in his administration has come close to criticizing how Israel is conducting its offensive.
The congresswoman recently faced one GOP-led resolution of censure her for comments critical of Israel and in support of the Palestinians.
The House eventually tabled the resolution, introduced by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, earlier this week, but cited an Oct. 18 protest in the Cannon House office building rotunda where activists called for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. war Demonstrations are not permitted inside congressional office buildings.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN that Tlaib was not present at the protest at the Cannon Building, but the congresswoman spoke at a rally in support of a ceasefire that took place outside the Capitol that day .
Responding to the censure resolution, Tlaib said in a statement, “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deranged resolution is profoundly Islamophobic and attacks peaceful Jewish anti-war advocates. I am proud to stand in solidarity with Jewish peace advocates calling for a cease-fire and an end to violence. I will not be harassed, I will not be dehumanized and I will not be silenced. I will continue to call for a ceasefire, the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, the release of hostages and those arbitrarily detained, and for all Americans to be brought home.”
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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