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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. 

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 

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; 


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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’’ 


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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 nonNATO ally while hundreds of Israeli and American hostages remain in terrorist captivity: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That Representative Rashida Tlaib be cen2 sured. 

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