(Algemeiner) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) lambasted the US government for supporting Israel’s war effort in Gaza and predicted that the pro-Palestinian movement would continue to grow as a political force while speaking at an extremist-linked gathering over the weekend.
Tlaib made the comments during her appearance at the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit on Sunday. Donning a keffiyeh draped around her shoulders, Tlaib angrily accused the US government of helping facilitate a so-called “genocide” in Gaza.
“They thought they could kill us, rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear. Well, guess what? Now we’re in Congress, and we’re in every corner of the United States,” said Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress.
