Marjorie Taylor Greene, representative Greene. She might be losing her touch with the GOP, this is very concerning. We reported last week that Marge brought a resolution to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib over speaking at a protest inside of [00:00:17] a congressional building in favor of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. And Marjorie thought that was an insurrection. That's right. And her resolution accused Tlaib of, quote, leading an insurrection for her participation in the anti-war protest last month at the Capitol, [00:00:35] organized by Jewish groups, which featured scores of arrests. However, how did that resolution go down? Not so good. And even after Marj put out this incredible, immaculate trailer about how terrible Rashida Tlaib is, take a look. [00:00:53] [MUSIC] There is a kind of a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust. [MUSIC] I mean, I think it's really important to understand Israel is a racist. [MUSIC] I mean, this is an apartheid system. As they shouted these fires, they shouted, [00:01:11] not in my name as they shouted, Never [INAUDIBLE] in the crowd today. Now therefore be it. >> Speaker 4: Resolve that representative Rashida Tlaib be censured. >> Yes. Coming soon to a congressional floor near you, [00:01:28] Marjorie Taylor Greene's vote to censure. And did it pass? No, guys, it didn't pass. That means a bunch of Republicans did not vote for this clearly and openly, let's just call it what is Islamophobic resolution [00:01:45] against one of the few Muslim representatives. The effort required 23 Republicans and joined by all Democrats to vote in favor of a procedural motion that blocked the disciplinary resolution from reaching the floor. The final tally was 222 to 186. [00:02:02] So, yeah, it didn't even reach the floor t'all. Oops, and like, you're like, what? Like, everyone likes to, representative Tlaib and [00:02:17] Representative Omar is anti-Semitic. Well, Republican Chip Roy sort of laid it out, he tweeted statement on tabling censure of Representative Tlaib. Representative Rashida Tlaib has repeatedly made outrageous remarks towards Israel and the Jewish people. [00:02:33] Her conduct is unbecoming of a member of Congress and certainly worthy of condemnation, if not censure. However, tonight's feckless resolution to censure Tlaib was deeply flawed and made illegally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an insurrection. I voted to table the resolution. [00:02:49] In January 2021, the legal term insurrection was stretched and abused by many following the events at the Capitol. We should not continue to perpetrate claims of insurrection at the Capitol and we should not abuse the term now, I love this justification. [00:03:08] Be like, well, that wasn't an insurrection, so this can't be an insurrection. Nobody say the word insurrection anymore. But this is really interesting, Rayvana, because yeah, she didn't even get to vote on this. Everyone was like, this is dumb. [00:03:25] Because if you say insurrection, then it's almost like they would have to admit that what happened on January 6 was an insurrection. So they're kind of calling Marge on again, the doublespeak and not to go down the insurrection rabbit hole. >> Speaker 2: It's funny because this is a deeply personal thing for Chip Roy. [00:03:42] He hates Marjorie Taylor Greene. We've gotten to talk about him a lot recently in the past few months because he has been in the news, angry at Matt Gates, angry at Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now, I want to say this is someone from the House Freedom Caucus, one of the most [00:03:58] right wing members of Congress election denier supports January 6 insurrectionist, if you could tell by that tweet. But he hates Marjorie Taylor Greene because he's one of those Republicans who cares deeply about rhetoric, [LAUGH] right? So that's what his issue here was. [00:04:13] I will say that there was nothing that Rashida Tlaib said, even in that deceptively edited video, that was anti Semitic. There was nothing incorrect, she said. She said that Israel is a racist state. It is literally an apartheid state. There are streets that you can't go down if you're Palestinian, [00:04:29] if you're Arab, if you're a brown person. This it has anti miscegenation laws. The idea that saying Israel is a racist state is anti-Semitic isn't in itself anti-Semitic. I don't think that Ben Guver represents the Jewish people. [00:04:47] A member of a member of the government in Israel who had for years in his house a massive poster of a mass shooter who shot up a mosque not just commemorating the mass shooter, but commemorating the mass shooting itself. [00:05:02] And when he finally took it down, he made a point to tell everybody that it wasn't because he didn't still support that racist mass shooting, and it wasn't because he didn't still support that mass shooter, but because he had finally gotten enough pressure to do it. I mean, the idea that the government of Israel represents all Jewish people or [00:05:21] the interests of all Jewish people is anti-Semitic. And again, Marjorie Taylor Greene making accusations of anti-Semitism, Jewish space lasers lady herself is so fundamentally disturbing [LAUGH]. >> It's ridiculous. And so I'm glad that they didn't, [00:05:37] at least they're parsing know this was such red meat for them. They could have easily voted on this BS resolution and they didn't. Whether or not it was because of the insurrection language or because they're just again tired of Marjorie Greene and the Matt Gates' is important. [00:05:54] Meanwhile, look, the war on Gaza is having American political ramifications. Speech is being policed. People are being told that they're anti-Semitic if they criticize Israel and its actions now. [00:06:10] And that's also happening on the floor, not just with Representative Rashida Tlaib, but with Republicans. And yet no one seems to really be calling them on things like this. Here is Representative Brian Mast on the floor discussing funding for Israel. Take a listen. [00:06:26] >> Speaker 5: As a whole, I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as is frequently said. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians during World War II. [00:06:45] >> Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so that is Representative Mast discussing and again, this is within the context of trying to limit speech around Palestine and Israel on the house floor saying, let's stop talking about innocent Palestinian civilians. [00:07:04] There is no difference, just like there are no innocent Nazi civilians. Which is just a wild comparison to make considering, I think the word he's looking for is straight up Hamas. But in a lot of people's minds, Hamas and Palestinians are one and the same. [00:07:21] They are absolutely not. And for those who need a reminder, Hamas is not the elected government in the West Bank, where many millions of Palestinians live under occupation, with massive checkpoints, different roads they can't drive on, with being shot at whenever they peacefully protest. [00:07:39] No, the Palestinian Authority is the governing body in the West Bank, but no one's trying to censure Brian Mast for those words, which are arguably justifying the murder of civilians. AOC tweeted think about how frequently Congress raises the prospect of publicly [00:07:56] disciplining the only two Muslim women here, today considered censure, and compare that to the ease in which this representative unfurls bigotry on the house floor. We can stop pretending people are treated equally here. Ray, your thoughts? [00:08:12] >> Speaker 2: Yeah. First, I'll just say, because you mentioned the West Bank, that since the 7 October, hundreds of Palestinians living the West Bank have been murdered by Israeli settlers. Illegal Israeli settlers, who have been armed by, as I mentioned, Ben Guvier, [00:08:30] literally drove to the West Bank with a minivan full of assault style rifles and passed them out so that these settlers could, with the explicit endorsement of the Israeli government, murder those Palestinians in the West Bank. And they can't even hide under the guise of we're trying to root out Hamas, [00:08:46] because, as you mentioned, Hamas is not in the West Bank. But as to what Mast said, the United States should have taken a second to consider innocent civilians. He mentioned Nazi Germany. Let's talk about Imperial Japan. [00:09:01] And it was justified in the same way there's no innocent Japanese civilian. And because of that, we dropped two nuclear bombs and caused however much death and destruction and injuries and disabilities that lasted brief and agonist lifetimes for these individuals. [00:09:21] Can we still see the continued effects it had? We should have said, what about the innocent civilians in those times? And just like we should be considering, it should be at the forefront of the minds of the American government now. >> 100%, I mean, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not chosen because of their military strategic importance. [00:09:40] To say nothing of like the bombing in Europe that continued, that needed to end after the Nazis had surrendered. And yet many, many towns throughout Europe were bombed by Americans needlessly and civilians died needlessly. But anyway, that's just history. [00:09:59] [MUSIC]