We’re now over two months into the Israel-Hamas war, a battle that was instigated after Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli civilians on October 7th, brutalizing and murdering 1,400 and taking some 240 as hostages.
Since that time, the House Hamas Caucus, which includes Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) have not exactly covered themselves in glory, with their inability to hide their antisemitism on full display during press conferences and speeches, where they’ve repeatedly alleged without evidence that Israel is engaged in “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “apartheid” against the people of Gaza and is deliberately targeting Gazan children.
Most disturbingly, Tlaib made the antisemitic chant “from the river to the sea” a focal point of a pro-ceasefire video she shared to Twitter in early November, causing her Jewish Michigan Democratic colleagues to twist themselves into pretzels in trying to defend her in the aftermath.
The calls from the AOC-led Squad of radical Socialist Democrats for a ceasefire have been non-stop, most recently with a rally held in D.C. where Tlaib and Bush were among those who spoke and took questions.
As RedState previously reported, Tlaib was quick to play the victim card, alleging that people were calling her “antisemitic” because they thought the allegation would shame her into being quiet:
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib accuses her critics of “weaponizing antisemitism in a way to silence voices” pic.twitter.com/fqDBb9RBqZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 7, 2023
Bush actually claimed that the accusation “hurt” her, and also suggested it was a silencing tactic that must stop:
Rep. @CoriBush on being called anti-Semitic: “We … have to stop with the words, it’s this word — ‘You say that word.’ ‘You say this word,’ ‘It hurt me.’ Well, how much? How do people feel when the bombs hit? .. This word was used but you are safe.” pic.twitter.com/WfVK8Uh8xY
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 7, 2023
My response to all of that: Doesn’t feel so good to be on the receiving end of such characterizations, does it?
Their complaints about silencing attempts ring hollow to me. If these women truly cared about free speech and open dialogue, they wouldn’t have spent the entirety of their time in public office (and even before that during their activist days) accusing their critics of racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and all the other isms and phobias, all for the crime of daring to disagree with wokeness.
The only time they don’t seem to like it is when their own words get used against them, something we saw when another Squad/Hamas Caucus member, Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.), tried to get Riley Gaines’ criticism of her removed from the record at a Congressional hearing on protecting women’s sports last Tuesday.
For years, these same women have tried to use the various Absolute Moral Authority cards to silence their political opposition, so if they don’t like such tactics maybe they should stop using them. Of course, the difference in these cases, though, is that the accusations against Bush and Tlaib are true, a fact a growing number of people are aware of, and which is likely at the heart of what really irks Tlaib, Bush, and their defenders.
Related: Hamas Caucus Begs Hakeem Jeffries for Help As the Walls Come Tumbling Down