WASHINGTON (Michigan News Source) – Within days of a failed censure measure, 22 Democrats in the U.S. House joined with Republicans on Tuesday night and voted to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for her antisemitic remarks and jihadist rhetoric regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

The 234-188 tally comes several days after a failed censure measure where 23 Republicans, including Michigan Congressmen Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar, and Tim Walberg, voted against that censure citing “free speech.” This censure was brought by Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia, a colleague of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who brought last week’s measure to the House floor. Her censure measure also cited Tlaib’s remarks at a pro-Hamas October 18 protest which triggered hundreds of people to flood the Capitol building. The tipping point between the two votes were Tlaib’s remarks which cited a battle cry to wipe out Jews.

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According to the History, Art, and Archives website for the U.S. House, Congress is allowed broad powers to reprimand its members. Those include reprimand, censure, and expulsion.

Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress, has an established track record of antisemitic sentiment and rhetoric. Her most recent comments are detailed in the censure legislation, which state Tlaib’s “from the river to the sea” comments are a “widely recognized as a genocidal call to violence to destroy the state of Israel and its people to replace it with a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”

Tlaib doubled-down after the censure vote and commented on what she called “the efforts to silence me.”

 

This time, Rep. Huizenga voted in favor of the censure, saying “Representative Tlaib used her position in Congress to spread antisemitic falsehoods as well as echo and embrace statements that promote genocide.”

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Tlaib has also lobbed strong language at President Joe Biden, calling for a cease fire.

Rep. Walberg also made an about-face on Tuesday night, saying, “While I will continue to defend First Amendment liberties for those I disagree with, I will not support the right to call for a violent genocide.”

Rep. Moolenaar did not offer a statement after the vote.