Squad Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) appears to have not learned her lesson since being censured for antisemitic statements and now is being threatened with the prospect of expulsion by one of her colleagues.
New York Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) posted on X Sunday that the Michigan Democrat should lose her seat in Congress after speaking at a Detroit conference in support of Palestinians that was organized by a group that has been designated by the U.S. as a sponsor of terrorism.
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Tlaib ” should be removed from Congress immediately. Associating with and speaking before groups that are funded by US designated terrorist organizations is disqualifying,” Rep. Lawler wrote, including video of the Democrat at the “People’s Conference for Palestine” where she told attendees they are on the “right side” of Hamas’ war with Israel.
“Each year our country… sends billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is disgraceful,” Tlaib says in the clip.
The conference was organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group which is headquartered in the Syrian capital of Damascus and is designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S., Japan, Canada, and the European Union.
Lawler, whose district is home to roughly 90,000 Jews, has ironically been attacked by House Democrats’ political arm over “trying to avoid” his Jewish constituents during a religious holiday in 2023. No word yet from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on their Squad member’s latest statements.
Tlaib’s remarks came just days after a staffer with her congressional office assaulted a Fox News reporter with an umbrella after he asked about her opposition to a proposed U.S. visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Previously, Tlaib had a full-blown meltdown when a correspondent with the network cornered her while she waited for an elevator, accusing Fox of perpetrating “racist tropes.”
“You guys know exactly what you do, and I know you’re Islamophobia but you guys gotta go deal with that on your own self. You’re not gonna use me,” she yelled as the doors closed.
While condemnations of Tlaib and her other Squad members by conservatives are not unusual, the rebuke from Rep. Lawler is notable because of his more moderate record. He holds a slim 2-point lead over his Democratic rival, according to a left-leaning poll on FiveThirtyEight, in a reliably blue state where President Joe Biden’s edge has slipped from double to single digits.
