Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was slammed Friday evening for defending a call for genocide against Israel after she promoted a video on her X account that featured an anti-Semitic slogan.
Tlaib has promoted Hamas terrorist propaganda in the weeks following their unprecedented attack against Israel where they murdered 1,400 Israelis, wounded 5,300, and kidnapped 240.
In the video, which received intense backlash, Tlaib showed protesters in her state as they chanted, “From the river to the sea” — meaning from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea — which would require the total destruction of Israel as a Jewish State.
“From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate,” Tlaib falsely claimed. “My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.”
From the river to the sea refers to the full erasure of the Jewish state, from Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
It is also the battle cry of Hamas, a savage terrorist group that beheads babies and rapes women.
You echo terrorists. pic.twitter.com/7YjAwsAOAZ
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 3, 2023
The slogan is recognized virtually across the political spectrum as being overtly anti-Semitic.
The left-of-center Anti-Defamation League explains:
This rallying cry has long been used by anti-Israel voices, including supporters of terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the PFLP, which seek Israel’s destruction through violent means. It is fundamentally a call for a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, territory that includes the State of Israel, which would mean the dismantling of the Jewish state. It is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) says that the slogan is a “common call-to-arms for pro-Palestinian activists, especially student activists on college campuses.”
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“It calls for the establishment of a State of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, erasing the State of Israel and its people,” the AJC said. “It is also a rallying cry for terrorist groups and their sympathizers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to Hamas, which called for Israel’s destruction in its original governing charter in 1988 and was responsible for the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israeli civilians, murdering over 1,000 people in the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) posted about the slogan shortly after Tlaib posted the video on her X account.
“We hear ‘from the river to the sea’ chanted at US protests. It’s on posters, even projected on university buildings,” she wrote. “Here’s a map. See what ‘from the river to the sea’ means.”
“It means eradicating the state of Israel,” she continued. “It’s about eliminating Jews. It’s hate speech. It’s antisemitism.”
We hear “from the river to the sea” chanted at US protests. It’s on posters, even projected on university buildings
Here’s a map
See what “from the river to the sea” means
It means eradicating the state of Israel
It’s about eliminating JewsIt’s hate speech
It’s antisemitism pic.twitter.com/8d55SAom2F
— Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) November 3, 2023
Radio host Erick Erickson wrote: “An evil monster is lying. She knows what ‘river to sea’ means. She’s too much of a moral coward to admit it.”
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) posted: “This is reprehensible. ‘From the river to the sea!’ is calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people. I will continue to support measures to censure this member of congress and will be requesting an ethics investigation into her abominable statements.”
“Hamas is on a mission to wipe out Israel ‘from the river to the sea’—a mission from which it will never cease despite calls for a ceasefire,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY). “‘From the river to the sea’ is not ‘an aspirational call’ for ‘peaceful coexistence.’ It is a genocidal call for ending the existence of the world’s only Jewish State.”
Hamas is on a mission to wipe out Israel “from the river to the sea”—a mission from which it will never cease despite calls for a ceasefire.
“From the river to the sea” is not “an aspirational call” for “peaceful coexistence.”
It is a genocidal call for ending the existence of…
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) November 4, 2023