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November 2, 2023

House Tables Censure Resolution Against Palestinian American Rep. Rashida Tlaib
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Lawmakers have dropped a bid to censure the House's only Palestinian
American representative after she joined a nonviolent protest calling
for a ceasefire in Gaza and accused Israel of carrying out a genocide.
The resolution to censure Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib was brought by
far-right Georgia Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene, who accused
Tlaib of "antisemitic activity" and "insurrection." Congreemember Tlaib
rejected the accusations, writing in a statement, "I will not be
bullied, I will not be dehumanized, and I will not be silenced."

Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene herself has repeatedly made
racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic remarks. In 2018, she advanced a
conspiracy theory about the Rothschild banking firm - a popular target
of antisemitic tropes - suggesting it was connected to a plot to start
wildfires in California using a "space laser."


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