House Censures Rashida Tlaib in 234-188 Vote With 22 Democrats Joining Republicans

Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib was officially censured last night in a 234-188 vote, with 22 Democrats joining Republicans, and four Republicans voting against the censure. Four lawmakers also voted “present.” 

Tlaib was censured after she used the anti-Israel slogan “from the river to the sea,” a reference to the desire for Palestine to control the entirety of Israel’s territory from the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The same leftists accusing Israel of “genocide” came up with some creative interpretations of the slogan in an attempt to sanitize its genocidal intent. 

Among those Republicans who voted against the censure was soon-to-be-former Republican Representative Ken Buck, who took to the House floor to condemn the anti-Israel rhetoric of far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib - only to then direct his anger at those trying to censure her for those comments. 

“To compare a modern democracy with a repressive terrorist state is wrong, but it is also wrong for Congress to take this action at a time when we have serious issues that we face," Buck said. "To take an action and take down the words, to strike the words, to censure a fellow member, no matter how incorrect we believe she may be, is wrong.” 

While most Democrats refused to censure Tlaib over her utterance of the genocidal slogan, back in 2021 they had no issue censuring Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and removing him from committees after one of Gosar’s staffers posted a video to his Twitter account of a battle scene from a cartoon series where one cartoon character “kills” another character who had a picture of AOC’s face edited over it. 

Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros