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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 845 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 845

 Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives 
 regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling 
              for the destruction of the state of Israel.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 6, 2023

  Mr. McCormick (for himself, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Issa, and Mr. Van Drew) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                               on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives 
 regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling 
              for the destruction of the state of Israel.

Whereas Israel has existed on its lands for millennia and the United States 
        played a critical role in returning Israel to those lands in 1948 
        immediately following the Holocaust in recognition of its right to exist 
        and as an indelible signal of our solidarity with the Jewish people;
Whereas Israel is a critical ally to the American people and to our strategic 
        national security interests in the Middle East;
Whereas the people of Israel--including American citizens--were brutally 
        attacked on October 7, 2023, by Hamas;
Whereas Representative Rashida Tlaib, within 24 hours of the October 7 barbaric 
        attack on Jewish citizens of the State of Israel, representing the 
        deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, defended the brutal rapes, 
        murders, be-headings, and kidnapping--including of Americans--by Hamas 
        as justified ``resistance'' to the ``apartheid state'';
Whereas Representative Tlaib's October 8 statement claimed that Hamas' October 7 
        attack on the Jewish people was partly attributable to United States 
        security aid provided to Israel, which ignores the fact that the Iron 
        Dome, a co-developed air defense system, saved lives that day by 
        intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip against Israeli 
        civilian targets;
Whereas, on October 18, 2023, Representative Tlaib continued to knowingly spread 
        the false narrative that Israel intentionally bombed the Al-Ahli Arab 
        Hospital on October 17 after United States intelligence, Israeli 
        intelligence, and President Biden assessed with high confidence that 
        Israel did not cause the explosion;
Whereas, on November 3, 2023, Representative Tlaib published on social media a 
        video containing the phrase ``from the river to the sea'', which is 
        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;
Whereas Representative Tlaib doubled down on this call to violence by falsely 
        describing ``from the river to the sea'' as ``an aspirational call for 
        freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence'' despite it clearly 
        entailing Israel's destruction and denial of its fundamental right to 
        exist; and
Whereas Representative Tlaib has repeatedly displayed conduct entirely 
        unbecoming of a Member of the House of Representatives by calling for 
        the destruction of the state of Israel and dangerously promoting false 
        narratives regarding a brutal, large-scale terrorist attack against 
        civilian targets inside the sovereign territory of a major non-NATO ally 
        while hundreds of Israeli and American hostages remain in terrorist 
        captivity: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That Representative Rashida Tlaib be censured.
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