Rep Rashida Tliab came in for ferocious criticism online after publicly defending those chanting for genocide against the Jewish people.
Tliab, far-left squad member and the first Palestinian ever elected to Congress, insisted that the chant, “From the River to the sea Palestine will be free” was in fact “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence”
The line — a favorite of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists — is widely understood as a hateful and antisemitic call for the elimination of the state of Israel in its current form between the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) contends that the phrase constitutes a direct call for genocide against Jewish individuals. Rep Rashida Tliab
Rashida Tlaib’s justification for her use of the phrase came after she posted a video that included the phrase. In the video, she not only used the term but also condemned President Biden for his support of what she characterized as Israeli actions amounting to genocide against the Palestinian population.
Actor Dean Cain called Tliab “dead wrong” and “a disgrace.”
“It is a call to genocide. Genocide of the Jewish people, and an end to Israel. You are endorsing terrorism,” he said.
Criticism also came from Tlaib’s House colleagues.
” ‘From the river to the sea’ is a chant that has been championed by fundamentalist Islamist terrorists for years, and it calls for ethnically cleansing the Jews from their ancestral land.”