“I will not support an effort to enable and support war crimes, human rights abuses and violence,” Tlaib, who is Palestinian American, said in a floor speech Thursday. “We cannot be talking only about Israelis’ need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system.”
Tlaib’s use of the word “apartheid” on the House floor to characterize Israel’s long-running occupation of the Palestinian territories was sharply criticized by Republicans and some Democrats, like Florida Rep. Ted Deutch.
Even as the funding ultimately passed the House and is expected to handily pass the Senate in some form in the days ahead, House Democratic leaders sparked a fight this week with some in their progressive wing when they tried to pass the $1 billion Israel aid package in the stopgap funding measure.
Republicans were already uniformly opposed to that continuing resolution. So when a few progressive members threatened to withhold their support for the spending measure, it was enough to prompt Democratic leaders — with their microscopic three-vote majority — to strip out the Iron Dome funding and offer it instead as a standalone measure.
“There are some few who will not support this but the overwhelming majority of this Congress, not in a partisan way but in an American way, will support defending the democratic state of Israel,” said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., a key force for pushing the Iron Dome funding through.
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