Long Island GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito will introduce a resolution on Tuesday formally condemning the use of the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic, according to a copy obtained exclusively by The Post.
D’Esposito, who represents the hotly contested Fourth Congressional District, will file the motion after a resolution of censure against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) earlier this month, who cited a “Squad” representative’s use of the phrase on social media.
“The widespread use of the slogan calling for liberation ‘from the river to the sea’ is particularly alarming given that it is an open call to destroy America’s greatest ally, Israel, as well as the Jews who live there,” D’ Esposito said in a statement.
“The fact that these antisemitic chants are freely proclaimed on American college and university campuses demonstrates the troubling prevalence of antisemitic thinking in our nation’s institutions of higher learning,” he added.
Long Island GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito will introduce a resolution on Tuesday to formally condemn the use of the chant, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic.AP
“The antisemites who use the cry ‘from the river to the sea’ are not concerned with building a lasting peace in the Middle East, but are busy seeing the extermination of Israel and the Jewish people,” the parliamentarian said.
“My resolution gives Congress an opportunity to formally condemn those who promote antisemitism by using this chant. Anyone who calls for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people must be strongly rejected.”
Tlaib was condemned 234-188, with 22 Democrats voting in favor of him and condemning the congressman’s use of the phrase to call for the elimination of Israel.
D’Esposito, who represents New York’s swing district, will file the motion after a resolution of censure against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) earlier this month, who cited a “Squad” representative’s use of the phrase on social media.AP
Democratic Representative Dan Goldman of Brooklyn and Manhattan later said he asked Tlaib why he used “offensive antisemitic tropes” and later defended it as “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction or hatred .”
“I contacted Representative Tlaib personally … to convey to him the hurt and danger his words have caused and how they have been received by many in the Jewish community,” he said in a November 8 statement posted to X. “I urge him to make a public explanation , but he refused.”
Goldman also criticized Tlaib for “promoting misinformation that fuels terrorism around the world, including against the United States embassy” during Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas terrorists.
Representative Dan Goldman, a Democrat from Brooklyn and Manhattan, later said he asked Tlaib personally why he used the “hurtful antisemitic trope” and chose to stand by his words after being called out by fellow lawmakers.Twitter/@RashidaTlaib
D’Esposito’s resolution denounced the phrase as “an antisemitic call to arms with the aim of eliminating the State of Israel, which lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”
It further cited more than 1,200 victims, mostly civilians and including at least 33 Americans, killed by Hamas jihadists on October 7, as well as nearly 240 people who were taken hostage back to the Gaza Strip.
Hamas attacked a music festival and killed hundreds of attendees, raping and killing women and beheading babies during the bloodshed — atrocities all cited in the resolution.
Hamas’s 2017 charter called for the “full and complete liberation of Palestine” by “resistance and jihad” using that phrase as well, and the head of the terror group’s political bureau, Ghazi Hamad, has promised that the attack will not be the last. Getty Images
It shows the death toll marks the highest number of Jews killed in a single day since the Holocaust.
D’Esposito’s motion also states that “the song is intended to deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination” and has been used by other terrorist groups such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.
Hamas’ 2017 charter called for the “full and complete liberation of Palestine” by “resistance and jihad” using that phrase as well – and the head of the terror group’s political bureau, Ghazi Hamad, has since promised that the attack will not be the last. .
US demonstrators have also shouted the phrase during protests in major US cities, including an October event on Capitol Hill that Tlaib participated in.Getty Images
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi earlier this month used the phrase to call for the “establishment of a Palestinian state” as a legitimate outcome of the war.
Former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein also called for “from the river to the sea” in earlier calls to “liberate” the Palestinian territories.
US protesters have also shouted the phrase during protests in major US cities, including an October event on Capitol Hill that Tlaib participated in.
“[S]students attending institutions of higher learning have chanted and continue to chant these slogans since the brutal massacre of October 7, yet all the while, their fellow Jewish students have been harassed and threatened,” said D’Esposito’s resolution.
“[T]his chant has been used recently by violent protesters across the United States and the world,” he said.
The resolution is expected to receive bipartisan support and vote on the House floor before the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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