Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “genocidal maniac” who was deliberately killing Palestinian civilians, prompting a sharp retort from the Jewish state’s envoy to the United Nations.
“Genocidal maniac Netanyahu is burning Palestinians alive, bombing hospitals, starving people, and killing aid workers. When will our country stop funding this madness? When?” tweeted Tlaib.
To which Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon retorted: “The only ones burning children alive were your buddies over at Hamas.”
The only ones who burned children alive were your buddies over at Hamas. https://t.co/mUwoI4caVN
— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) October 14, 2024
Last month, Tlaib vehemently denounced a cartoon by Henry Payne at The National Review depicting her at a desk with a smoking pager and the caption: “Odd, my pager just exploded.”
On Sept. 17, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded in Lebanon and Syria, in what the Iranian terror proxy said was an Israeli attack. The following day, additional Hezbollah communication devices exploded.
Tlaib, a Palestinian American, has a history of appearing alongside terrorists at events. In 2019, she posed with Abbas Hamideh, a Hezbollah apologist and activist for Israel’s destruction, at her swearing-in ceremony in Detroit. In May of this year, she spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine event in Detroit that also featured Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Wisam Rafeedie.
Tlaib is on record as opposing a two-state solution in favor of the maximalist one-state model, which is shorthand for the dismantling of Jewish self-governance. She has denied Israel’s right to exist and has used the “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” slogan, which is widely understood to be a call to ethnically cleanse the Land of Israel of Jews.
Congress voted last November, just weeks after the Hamas-led Oct. massacre, to censure the congresswoman for “calling for the destruction of the State of Israel” in connection with her use of that slogan.
