IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 845 
Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regard-
ing 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 sig-
nal 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 contin-
ued to knowingly spread the false narrative that Israel 
intentionally bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Octo-
ber 17 after United States intelligence, Israeli intel-
ligence, and President Biden assessed with high con-
fidence that Israel did not cause the explosion; 
Whereas, on November 3, 2023, Representative Tlaib pub-
lished 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 vi-
olence by falsely describing ‘‘from the river to the sea’’ 
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•HRES 845 IH 
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 con-
duct 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 re-
garding a brutal, large-scale terrorist attack against civil-
ian targets inside the sovereign territory of a major non- 
NATO ally while hundreds of Israeli and American hos-
tages remain in terrorist captivity: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That Representative Rashida Tlaib be cen-
sured. 
Æ 
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