Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has become so strident with her anti-Semitic rhetoric that she has struck a nerve with Democrats in her home state of Michigan who are calling for the “Squad” member to dial it down.
The bomb-throwing Muslim activist appears to have gone a bridge too far with her posting of a video that accused President Joe Biden of being complicit in genocide while at the same time, promoting a slogan that has become popular with pro-Hamas leftists which advocates for the eradication of the Jewish state and its people.
From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) November 3, 2023
Nearly as soon as she posted her attack on Biden and Israeli Jews to X, formerly known as Twitter, Tlaib’s words sparked a firestorm of outrage leading to her attempting to play off “From the river to the sea” as being a call for peace and not the genocide that it has been widely interpreted to mean.
Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss – who is Jewish – wasn’t convinced of Tlaib’s feigning innocence over the incendiary phrase.
“This is not how Jews view the phrase “from the river to the sea.” This is not how Hamas views the phrase ‘from the river to the sea.’ Hamas uses it as a rallying cry. And they don’t simply want to displace Jews in Israel. They want Jews dead,” he wrote on X.
This is not how Jews view the phrase “from the river to the sea.” This is not how Hamas views the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
Hamas uses it as a rallying cry. And they don’t simply want to displace Jews in Israel. They want Jews dead. https://t.co/pRh8cU55if
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
Hamas killed 1400 Jews in just a few hours. They are holding 200+ more in unknown conditions. They would kill all 7 million Jews in Israel if they could.
And if you can’t imagine that happening, read a history book.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
In a rare rebuke to a fellow Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called for Tlaib to retract her “cruel and hateful” remarks.
“@RashidaTlaib, I have supported and defended you countless times, even when you have said the indefensible, because I believed you to be a good person whose heart was in the right place,” Nessel wrote. “But this is so hurtful to so many. Please retract this cruel and hateful remark.”
.@RashidaTlaib, I have supported and defended you countless times, even when you have said the indefensible, because I believed you to be a good person whose heart was in the right place.
But this is so hurtful to so many. Please retract this cruel and hateful remark. https://t.co/HBCf8jRgYo
— Dana Nessel (@dananessel) November 4, 2023
In his lengthy thread, Moss sought to educate Tlaib on his family history as well as the hatred for the Jewish people that has bubbled up through some of the darkest periods in history and is doing so once again in the streets of American cities as well as in the halls of Congress.
This phrase preys upon the psyche of Jews. There are less than 16 million of us living in the world. Fewer Jews are alive today than the eve of the Holocaust.
Just about every Jewish person you know lives where they live because their family escaped certain death to get there.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
I am one of 7 million Jews living in the US. All of my great-grandparents fled pogroms, violent expulsion of Jews from Eastern Europe, to come here.
One of my great grandfathers came to Detroit through Canada, leaving behind siblings who were later shot dead by Nazis in Poland.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
One of my great grandfathers came to Detroit via Ellis Island alone at 17 years old. He wrote back home to Russia begging his family to join him. Sent them money. They never came & after WWII, he never heard from them again.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
7 million Jews live in Israel — many with roots dating back 1000s of years, & many as a result of seeking refuge from any given genocide of Jews over the last 100s of years, including ethnic cleansing of Jews from North Africa/Middle East & of course, most notably, the Holocaust.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
Despite the diaspora, Jews around the world are interconnected because, through our shared generational trauma, our shared faith still survives.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
Even for Jews outside of Israel, Oct. 7 touches us personally. We see the faces of our grandparents, our parents & our children in those slaughtered & taken hostage. Some here in metro Detroit — including in the congresswoman’s district — are directly related to the victims.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
We must be able to condemn this Hamas terror, demand release of hostages, & care for the welfare of all innocent civilians in this conflict. The MI Senate passed my resolution calling for just that, incl for the US to assist humanitarian aid to Gaza & Palestinians seeking refuge.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
My Senate-passed resolution closes with: “That we affirm the dignity of all innocent civilians impacted, Israelis and Palestinians, and join the long-standing call for peace in the region.”
What exactly is the peaceful effect of displacing Jews “from the river to the sea?”
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
And where would they go?
To Australia, where they shout “gas the Jews?”
To France, where Jewish schools are evacuated due to bomb threats?
To Russia, where Jews are hunted down when their plane lands?
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
To the US? There is no question that the US is the safest place to be Jewish in the history of Judaism. This country has provided my family with everything we have and I’m proud to be an American.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
But today in the US we are experiencing the worst antisemitism I’ve seen in my entire life. If we cannot snuff out this antisemitism today, what worse is yet to come? Where would any of us go?
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
I think of my great grandfather at 17 years old who never saw his family again. Would a 17 year old Jew fleeing antisemitism today ever see his family again?
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
Given all of this, “from the river to the sea” will not lead to the worthy aspirations of “freedom, human rights, & peaceful coexistence.”
What our elected officials say have an impact & the words of our congresswoman enflame the tensions here in an already tragic conflict.
— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023
Another fellow Democrat, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) just told HBO’s Bill Maher that the Democratic party is no longer a safe space for Jews.
Tlaib was able to escape being formally censured last week when over 20 spineless Republicans joined Democrats to defeat a resolution by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) but she will reintroduce it with toned down language and this time, considering that the radical leftist lawmaker has come out on the side of those seeking to exterminate the Jews, it could draw bipartisan support.
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