Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised House lawmakers on Thursday for denouncing Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her call to eliminate the Jewish state.
The resolution to censure the Michigan Democrat, which passed Tuesday, called out Tlaib’s “false narrative” surrounding the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and his Nov. 3 video broadcast on X, which included the phrase “From the river to the sea.”
“‘From the river to the sea’ means no Israel,” Netanyahu explained during an interview with Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier.
Israel’s prime minister condemned Tlaib’s comments, calling them “absurd.”
“What these congressmen are calling for is policide and genocide. Annihilation of the Jewish state. The only Jewish state for the Jewish people. So, that doesn’t make sense,” Netanyahu said.
“And I applaud Congress for denouncing it,” he added.
“I salute Congress for condemning it,” Netanyahu said on Thursday. via REUTERS Tlaib posted a video on X that contained the phrase, “From the river to the sea.” AFP via Getty Images
Netanyahu also condemned the pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests taking place in the US and other parts of the world.
“They align themselves with ISIS with al Qaeda, with these killers, with these baby killers, with these rapists and with these destroyers, these head choppers – this is what they align themselves with,” he said of Hamas supporters.
Tlaib, the first Palestinian American elected to Congress, joined pro-Palestinian activists in a protest at the US Capitol complex last month calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas.
“We have to watch people [who] think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where children are [were],” he told protesters before breaking into sobs, dubiously blaming Israel for the bombing of a hospital in Gaza that US and Israeli officials said was the result of a rocket fired by Gazan terror groups.
Tlaib became the 26th member of Congress to be censured.AP
“I think it is very important that this is condemned,” Netanyahu said.
Israel’s prime minister continues to argue that the rise of antisemitic protests in the West is an “indictment” of “higher education.”
“This is an indictment, I think, of higher education in many places in the West, when supposedly educated people cannot tell right from wrong and good from evil,” Netanyahu told Baier. “Hamas is evil, and we must defeat evil, not protest and demonstrate on behalf of evil.”
Tlaib is the 26th member of Congress to be impeached by the House in the legislature’s history.
“We are human beings just like everyone else,” Tlaib said on Tuesday, defending himself against criticism. “My grandmother, like all Palestinians, just wanted to live her life with the freedom and human dignity we all deserve. Speaking to save lives, Mr. Chairman, regardless of religion, regardless of ethnicity, should not be controversial in this chamber.”
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