The House of Representatives has voted to table a resolution that would censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib for her controversial statements about Israel and the Holocaust.
The resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on July 26th, was tabled by a voice vote of the full House. Cheney had previously called out Tlaib for her comments regarding the Holocaust and asserted that her remarks were “anti-Semitic, insulting, and wrong.”
Rep. Tlaib has defended her remarks, saying they were taken out of context and insisting that she had made the comments to highlight the oppression of Palestinians. Tlaib has also argued that her comments about the Holocaust were not anti-Semitic.
The debate over the resolution, which lasted more than two hours, was heated and passionate. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) expressed her support for Rep. Tlaib, saying she had been unfairly vilified and her comments were not made with malice or hate.
Other House Dems took the opportunity to call out some of the Captiol Hill-based civil liberties groups who they said had “failed to acknowledge the scale of the damage caused by hate speech on both sides
“House Votes to Shut Down Censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib!
