Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is glaring hypocrisy when you have Republicans on the other side of the aisle trying to create definitions and say, Rashida wants to annihilate people. [00:00:16] When Max Miller himself went on TV and said, we're turning Gaza into a parking lot and we want to annihilate Palestinians. Nobody condemned him on that side of the aisle. During a floor hearing today to discuss the issue of whether Democratic [00:00:31] Representative Rashida Talib should be formally censured, fellow squad member Ilhan Omar couldn't contain herself. Here's more. What is. True here is that. Every single one of them has not acknowledged the fact that Palestinians are dying in the tens of thousands, but will continue [00:00:50] to say it is us who are not acknowledging. - Humanity. - Rashida will stand strong. Gentlelady's time has expired. Movement will continue for liberation until every. Gentlelady's time is expired. Has the right gentleman from Maryland is recognized? [00:01:06] Wow. That was that was powerful. And she wasn't the only one who stood up for Rashida Talib and her freedom of expression, so did Representative Jamaal Bowman, who, to be quite frank, is taking a huge risk politically considering he has a sizable Jewish community in his district. [00:01:22] He has kind of wavered on this conflict in the past, but not this time. Let's watch. This body needs empathy and compassion for all people, not just people that look like the majority of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. [00:01:39] And maybe because of your lack of diversity, you lack the cognitive and emotional ability to recognize diverse opinions when they speak truth to power. And you absolutely need to open up your mind to other people [00:01:55] and other experiences, especially when they are Muslim and when they are women and when they are people of color. You had a gentleman's time has expired. Call my colleague a terrorist and you didn't censor her. But we're having his time is expired. - About your interpretation of. - Words. [00:02:11] Members are reminded to direct their comments to the chair. Now, if you're wondering, how are they still talking about censuring Talib? I thought that that whole fight was over. Well, there was the first effort to censure her. This is the second effort, the resolution to censure Talib in the House's second [00:02:28] attempt in recent days after the or is the House's second attempt in recent days, after the first one authorized by hard right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, failed to win enough GOP votes to pass the new resolution from representative Rich McCormick doesn't include the flame throwing [00:02:45] rhetoric that Greene's texts did, likening a pro-Palestinian protest to an insurrection, and McCormick's resolution moves to censure Tlaib for promoting the false narratives regarding the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. I don't know exactly what he means by false narratives. [00:03:02] Rashida Tlaib acknowledged what happened, but she also, on the same day, I will admit, condemned Israel's treatment of Palestinian civilians both in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Some felt that it was too soon to criticize the Israeli government. [00:03:17] And look, we did criticize her for that, although I don't think she should be censured for it. That's insane. And Rashida Tlaib doesn't believe in a two state solution. I disagree with her on that. She wants Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace, side by side with a one state solution. [00:03:33] I honestly think that's magical thinking, but I don't believe that that's something she should be censured for. - Genk. - Yeah. So I hate this slogan from the River to the sea because at a bare moment minimum, it is open to massive misinterpretation. So some people who say rivers, the sea apparently mean there should [00:03:51] be one state from the river to the sea and it should be a democracy. That's what Rashida Tlaib is saying that she believes. But others that say river to the sea mean kill all the Jews and take the land, right. By the way, it's it's sometimes used in reverse as well. [00:04:07] River to the sea for Israel and kill all the Palestinians and take their land. And one side is actually doing it. So both sides have killed each other and have killed civilians, especially here in Hamas, to the first attack. And that's why I thought Rashida Tlaib, on [00:04:25] the first day, did not do a great job in being measured, as she should have been, about the civilian lives lost in Israel. Now, having said that, now Israelis killed seven times as many civilians. And do I see the same kind of outrage about that? [00:04:41] No. Jamaal Bowman and Ilhan Omar are absolutely right here. There's no question about it. And you've all seen it and they're kosher everywhere. So the one that Representative Omar quoted there from representative Max Miller, who's a Republican, talking about annihilating the Palestinians and [00:04:58] celebrating that, and he didn't say Hamas. He said Palestinians. So now, if anyone had said not an oblique term and one that could be misinterpreted from the river to the sea, but had said, let's annihilate all the Jews, well, they'd all be thrown out of Congress immediately. [00:05:15] And they should be absolutely, positively should be. No question about it. I would never tolerate that kind of language. But you say annihilate the Palestinians. There's not a censure movement. There's barely any critique. No Republican has ever criticized them for it, and the Democrats [00:05:30] have barely criticized them for it. So let alone the guy who dressed up in Israeli uniform in American Congress. That's insanity. And so. And not because, like, oh, there's something terribly wrong with being an Israeli soldier. [00:05:45] You're United States, United States Congress, United States member of Congress. Yeah. And that one, even some Republicans criticize him like, hey, brother, come on, we're in the American Congress here. This is out of control. And that guy has also said outrageous things about murdering Palestinians. Right. [00:06:00] And so and that's what was considered normal in America. You can't say anything against Israel, but you can talk about murdering and annihilating Palestinians all day long and no one cares. Well, I got news for you. Now people care. Now there are representatives who say, no, we will not allow you [00:06:17] to talk about murdering Palestinians and get away with it. So you want to criticize us about this comment? Well, we're going to come right back at you and show all the horrible things you've said. I would have stayed on those quotes, and I would have pounded those people [00:06:33] as much as humanly possible, even more so than they did. But I want to give you credit here, because we've criticized some members of of the squad, et cetera, for not fighting back enough on some issues here. They're fighting back in a way that I commend. And thank you for being that voice in Congress that we need at this moment. [00:06:51] Absolutely. And I just want to give you a comment, both from McCormick, who brought forth this effort to censure Talib and Talib's response to it. So McCormick said it is a sad fact, but this type of anti-Semitic hate is being [00:07:06] promoted by a small group of members in this body, chiefly Representative Talib. We must hold her accountable. And look, this is I love that this isn't working anymore, right? Because any effort to criticize, to justifiably critique and criticize [00:07:22] the Israeli government automatically leads to accusations of anti-Semitism. And it's intentionally done to silence people to basically provide cover and protect the Israeli government, regardless of how far right it is, [00:07:37] regardless of the brutality it carries out against Palestinian civilians, both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. And in this case, it's not working. And they don't know what to do with themselves because it's not working right now. With that said, Talib responded to his comments by saying the following. It's a shame my colleagues are more focused on silencing me [00:07:55] than they are on saving lives. As the death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000, many of them have shown me that Palestinian lives simply do not matter to them. But I still do not police their rhetoric or actions. And again, just to reiterate, Max Miller talks about annihilating Palestinians. [00:08:12] Rashida Tlaib has never said anything close to that in regard to Israelis. Nothing close to that. And Democrats, as well as Republicans in the House, have condemned Talib for anti-Israel comments and for promoting the phrase from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, a rallying cry for the elimination of Israel [00:08:32] based on honestly, the interpretation. I wouldn't use that phrase. I hate that phrase. That is typically what that phrase is used for. But as Jake mentioned, there are a lot of people using it and chanting it in these protests who don't even understand or realize what they're saying. So yeah, all right. [00:08:47] We're really condemning people for outrageous statements in this conflict. How about Representative Brian Mast, who said that Palestinian civilians are equivalent to Nazi civilians? That seems like it's 10,000 times worse than what Rashida Tlaib said. [00:09:03] And how about when he said there are very few innocent Palestinian citizens? What a disgusting thing to say. And sanctioning encouraging the murder of civilians. Representative mast should be immediately expelled from Congress. [00:09:21] Is this is this a game we're playing? Representative mass is a monster. Total utter monster. He is what he criticizes. He thinks. Oh yeah. Yeah, they're Nazis. Really talking about how you should murder innocent civilians. What does that make you, representative mass? [00:09:36] What does that make you? So sorry to all the people who loved murdering Palestinians and getting away with it and being able to brag about it and calling all Palestinians Nazis and terrorists. Sorry. You're not getting away with it anymore. Okay. [00:09:51] No, it's Rashida Tlaib is not the guilty one. You are representative of mass Representative Miller. You guys are monsters, and you should be kicked out of Congress. And if your voters had any decency or conscience, they would immediately expel you through their voting. They'd get rid of you because you're apparently murdering terrorist wannabes [00:10:12] going around talking about how we should keep killing and killing and killing innocent civilians in Palestine. So sorry. I have no sympathy for you. And you want to go around censure Rashida Tlaib, and you want to do this old horse crap about any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. [00:10:31] That's such a super tired, old useless talking point. It's not working at all anymore, by the way, they tried it against the Republican Thomas Massie. Massie is a principled conservative. I have massive disagreements with him, but he votes in his own way. [00:10:49] He, you know, walks to the beat of his own drum. ET cetera. And so he did not want to send more money abroad. He's an America first guy. And they're like. How dare you give all the money to Israel? Otherwise you're an anti-Semite, right? And he's like, yeah, okay, try it again, brother. [00:11:06] It ain't going to work. We're tired of your crap. Oh, let's go kill all the Palestinians. But you see how they're the hateful ones. We should murder them all. That's because they're hateful. All they understand is violence. No, representative. Mass representative Miller. Oh, you understand his violence because you're savages. [00:11:23] Total savages. Am I clear enough? Thank God, that there's some justice Democrats. They're fighting back against this, these monsters. Last thing Rashida Tlaib did, that ad against Biden. And in the ad, she pointed out accurately the genocide that's happening in Israel. [00:11:40] Is anybody condemning the Biden administration for that? Are we talking about. No. In the ad, it said River to the sea. So now we're not talking about the genocide anymore. We're not talking about 10,000 dead civilians, 4000 kids burned alive, their heads crushed when their bomber hits their building [00:11:58] and the cement falls on their head, all those murdered babies and children. But we're not talking about that. Someone dared to criticize the mighty Israel. Sorry, this Israel is not the 51st state we are allowed. And even if they were, we're allowed to criticize. [00:12:14] We're allowed to criticize our own. We're allowed to criticize our allies. We're allowed to criticize foreign countries. And if you don't like it, then you're not really an American. You don't like freedom of speech. You don't believe in our values of morality and decency. You believe in murdering civilians. What does that make you mast? [00:12:33] What does that make you? Miller? You want to have this argument, you terrorist wannabes. If you want to murder civilians, go somewhere else. But not in the United States Congress. Thanks for watching. If you become a member, you get to watch all this ad free. Except for, of course, this ad still. Hit the join button below.