Senate Republicans are blasting Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for leaving up a tweet she posted that blamed Israel for a Gaza hospital strike despite the Biden administration announcing that intelligence shows Israel is not at fault.
Rep. Thom Tillis (R-NC) brought a cutout of Tlaib’s tweet to the Senate floor on Wednesday, saying that she needs to be held “publicly accountable” and that “this sort of leadership, or failure of leadership, has no place on Capitol Hill.”
“It’s a disgrace that @RashidaTlaib, who has a long history of anti-Semitic remarks, gleefully promoted Hamas’ false propaganda that fomented outbreaks of violence across the Middle East,” Tillis added in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “She’s now refusing to take down her lies.”
It’s a disgrace that @RashidaTlaib, who has a long history of anti-Semitic remarks, gleefully promoted Hamas’ false propaganda that fomented outbreaks of violence across the Middle East. She’s now refusing to take down her lies. She needs to be held publicly accountable. pic.twitter.com/BEW35pfabd
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) October 18, 2023
The tweet Tillis references was posted by Tlaib on Tuesday after it was announced that at least 500 people were killed in an airstrike on the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. Both Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have pointed fingers at one another, blaming each other for the deaths, causing a rapid spread of misinformation among media outlets and lawmakers.
Tlaib, however, sided with claims made by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, criticizing the Biden administration for its approach to the war in the Middle East.
“Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that,” Tlaib wrote. “@POTUS this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate. Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslims Americans like me. We will remember where you stood.”
Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that. @POTUS this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate.
Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many… https://t.co/mZYoifT7bj
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) October 17, 2023
Tlaib also continued to blame Israel for the bombing at a protest on Wednesday.
“We have to speak the truth. We gotta stop allowing people to police our words, to target what we say,” Tlaib said.
Biden and the National Security Council have said they do not believe the explosion at the hospital was a result of an Israeli airstrike.
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“While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on Wednesday.
Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., told the Washington Examiner that “open-source intelligence has shown that the tragedy at the hospital in Gaza City last night was caused by an errant rocket launched by the PIJ terror group.”
