Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace chided Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her political activism during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech Wednesday.
Mace wrote that her fellow congresswoman was “Iran’s useful idiot” in a tweet with a photo of Tlaib holding a sign reading “War Criminal” and a Palestinian flag pinned on her shirt. (RELATED: ‘You’re Full Of Sh*t Today’: Rep. Nancy Mace Point-Blank Offers Secret Service Director Her Time To Resign)
Iran’s useful idiot. pic.twitter.com/D5fqurDhiB
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) July 24, 2024
Tlaib described Israel’s military operation in Gaza as “Netanyahu’s genocide” in a tweet.
Joining me in the chamber today is Hani Almadhoun, who has lost over 150 members of his extended family in Netanyahu’s genocide. After witnessing his sister forced to eat animal feed, he and his family were determined to start a soup kitchen to feed their starving neighbors. pic.twitter.com/H5Wtj2N1Ql
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) July 24, 2024
The congresswoman of Palestinian descent also claimed that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime. They will not erase us. Palestinians exist and we deserve to live.”
The Israeli apartheid regime is using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime.
They will not erase us. Palestinians exist and we deserve to live. Our presence today will be a reminder that we aren’t going anywhere.https://t.co/71rsQOz3Dw
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) July 24, 2024
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry alleges that 34 people died from starvation since the Israeli army entered Gaza en masse Oct. 27, according to Save the Children press release published June 25. Israel engaged in the ongoing military operation because Hamas invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7. Hamas’ invasion left over 1,200 Israelis killed and the terror organization took hundreds hostage. 72 percent of Palestinians approved of Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7, according to a poll cited by Reuters back in Dec.
Mace’s remarks echoed Netanyahu’s words employed in his speech before Congress. Netanyahu referred to anti-Israel activists who are funded, promoted, praised by “the tyrants of Tehran [Iran]” as “Iran’s useful idiots.”
Maher Abdel-qader, a fundraiser for Tlaib, has shared several antisemitic posts on social media and denied that the Jewish people had any ancestral ties to the Holy Land. “Many Jews living now in the Middle East are the descendants of the great Jewish Khazar empire in Europe,” he told the Daily Caller News Foundation in 2019.
Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a resolution in October to censure Tlaib for “antisemitic activity” after the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel
“Tlaib led a pro-Hamas insurrection into the Capitol complex, has repeatedly displayed her anti-Semitic beliefs, and shown her hatred for Israel,” Greene said. The House of Representatives passed the motion.
“I salute the Congress for [censuring] her,” Netanyahu told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
