Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) accused US President Joe Biden of supporting genocide in Gaza and warned that voters “won’t forget” his actions at the polls in 2024, Politico reports.
In a video posted Friday to X, formerly Twitter, Tlaib featured interspersed clips of Biden administration officials expressing support for Israel, videos of dead and injured Palestinian Arabs in Gaza and clips from pro-Palestinian Arab protests around the US.
“Mr. President, the American people are not with you on this one,” Tlaib said to the camera at the end of the video.
“Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian people. The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now or don’t count on us in 2024,” text cards following Tlaib’s video message read.
The Biden administration did not reply to a request for comment Saturday morning.
Tlaib, one of the members of the so-called “Squad” of Progressive Democrats, is known for her anti-Israel statements, including recently when she accused the IDF of "bombing" a hospital in Gaza, which was actually hit by an Islamic Jihad rocket.
In a statement after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, Tlaib criticized Israel’s alleged “apartheid system” and criticized the US for providing billions in funding “to support the apartheid government”.
In a 2019 interview, Tlaib claimed that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel “provided” a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
More recently, she joined a boycott by several lawmakers from the Democratic Party of President Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress, claiming she was acting “in solidarity with the Palestinian people and all those who have been harmed by Israel's apartheid government.”
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to kill a resolution to censure Tlaib over her comments on the Israel-Hamas war.
Nearly two dozen Republicans voted along with all House Democrats to table the resolution in a final vote of 222 to 186 in favor of killing the motion without debate.