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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, criticized American universities connected Thursday for responding to anti-Israel protests connected campuses crossed nan state wherever protesters person engaged successful antisemitic behavior.
"From UM to Vanderbilt to USC to Columbia, students crossed our state are being retaliated against for utilizing their law authorities to protestation genocide. It’s appalling," Tlaib wrote connected X successful consequence to a station by Isra Hirsi, nan girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Hirsi said she was suspended from New York City's Barnard College hours earlier being arrested for protesting against Israel astatine Columbia University.
Tlaib, who has Palestinian roots, has often criticized Israel and its leaders complete its warfare pinch Hamas pursuing nan panic group's deadly Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israeli communities.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks during a objection calling for a cease-fire successful Gaza, Oct. 18, 2023, adjacent nan Capitol successful Washington, D.C. On Thursday, she said colleges were retaliating against anti-Israel students. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File)
"Our state isn’t conscionable complicit successful this genocide — we’re actively participating successful it," she wrote Thursday connected X, while calling connected nan Biden management to extremity supplying nan Jewish authorities pinch arms.
Despite Tlaib's concerns complete field responses to student protests, she has refused to telephone retired nan antisemitism seen astatine immoderate gatherings successful which Jewish students person been targeted.
Protests astatine aggregate universities person seen anti-Israel supporters telephone for an "intifada," aliases uprising, and for nan demolition of nan Jewish state.
Tlaib's remarks astir Palestinians amid nan Israel-Hamas warfare person sometimes resulted successful disapproval from chap Democrats.
In November, she referenced nan celebrated "from nan stream to nan sea" phrase, referring to nan area betwixt nan Jordan River and nan Mediterranean Sea, which encompasses Israel. Jewish groups opportunity nan building is antisemitic and a codification for nan eradication of Israel.
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Anti-Israel activists stitchery extracurricular of Columbia University connected Thursday to protestation nan university's stance connected Israel successful New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
"From nan stream to nan oversea is an aspirational telephone for freedom, quality rights, and serene coexistence, not death, destruction, aliases hate," she wrote. "My activity and defense is ever centered successful justness and dignity for each group nary matter religion aliases ethnicity."
Critics person said Tlaib's stance connected Israel, her calls for a ceasefire and her soundlessness of nan targeting of Jewish students connected assemblage campuses are antisemitic.
She drew scorn from her legislature colleagues days aft Hamas' Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel for her connection connected that matter. Tlaib said she grieved nan nonaccomplishment of some Palestinian and Israeli lives, but past appeared to blasted nan Israeli authorities for nan unprovoked attack.
Tlaib has agelong accused Israel of committing genocide and refused to apologize for saying Israel targeted a infirmary successful Gaza pinch an airstrike contempt U.S. defense officials saying nan rocket was fired by terrorists.
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"The nonaccomplishment to admit nan convulsive reality of surviving nether siege, occupation, and apartheid makes nary 1 safer," she said. "No person, nary kid anyplace should person to suffer aliases unrecorded successful fearfulness of violence. We cannot disregard nan humanity successful each other. As agelong arsenic our state provides billions successful unconditional backing to support nan apartheid government, this heartbreaking rhythm of unit will continue."
Tlaib's agency did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.
