“You are a facilitator, President Biden,” he told a crowd at the People’s Conference for Palestine.
“Every year our country, and I say our country because it is our country, sends billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” Tlaib said.
“It is shameful that the Biden administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear them for protesting to save lives, regardless of faith or ethnicity,” he said, referring to pro-Gaza protesters who have appeared at universities and other locations throughout throughout the world. country.’
Tlaib was behind a group of Arab activists who convinced Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s primary to protest the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Palestine war.
“You are a facilitator, President Biden,” he told a crowd at the People’s Conference for Palestine.
Tlaib also criticized Biden for saying Israel is not committing “genocide” as its defense forces advance toward the southern city of Rafah. It comes as Hamas fired rockets from Rafah towards Tel Aviv for the first time in four months, indicating that the militant group is still capable of threatening Israel. All rockets were intercepted by air defenses.
“The International Court of Justice just ruled that the Israeli government must stop its invasion of Rafah, but President Biden says what is happening (in Gaza) is not a genocide,” the ‘Squad’ member said. ‘Where’s his red line, President Biden?’
‘Attacking the authority of the International Criminal Court and interfering in the legal process is nothing more than an attempt to prevent the genocidal maniac Netanyahu and his senior Israeli officials from being held accountable for these crimes against humanity.’
“You are a facilitator,” Tlaib told Biden. “But we’re not going to forget it in November, are we?”
Tlaib and a handful of her progressive colleagues refused to applaud during Biden’s March State of the Union address and instead held signs that read “stop sending bombs.”
At least 45 people were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah over the weekend, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Meanwhile, Israel said it killed two “senior Hamas terrorists” there and is investigating the circumstances of the civilian deaths in the area.
Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, said the rockets fired from Rafah demonstrated that “the IDF must operate in all locations where Hamas still operates from and, as such, the IDF will continue to operate where necessary.”
Nearly 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict since October 7, when Hamas killed about 1,160 Israelis and kidnapped more than 200.
In recent months, Biden has been more vocal about Palestinian deaths in the Israel-Gaza conflict, but staunchly defended the U.S. ally after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced last week that he is seeking arrest warrants. arrest for the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, in addition to the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, the political chief Ismail Haniyah and Mohammed Deif, who is behind its armed wing.
“We do not recognize their jurisdiction, the ICC, because of the way it is exercised,” Biden told reporters last week during a news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto. ‘It’s that easy. “We don’t believe there is an equivalence between what Israel did and what Hamas did.”
In recent months, Biden has been more vocal about Palestinian deaths in the Israel-Gaza conflict, but staunchly defended the U.S. ally after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced last week that he is seeking arrest warrants. arrest for the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Pro-Palestinian protesters march holding a banner expressing their opinion in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, in mid-May.
“Contrary to the accusations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice, what is happening is not a genocide,” Biden had previously said. ‘We reject that. And we will always stand with Israel and hers… in threats to her security.”
In an olive branch to progressives and Arab-American voters, Biden publicly touted a pause in sending 3,500 bombs to Israel on May 8 in protest of the IDF advance in Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians took refuge as many of their homes in the northern part of Gaza had been razed.
But soon after, the Biden administration announced a $1 billion arms deal with Israel, and the United States will continue to supply weapons to Israel even as they advance toward Rafah.
That package includes $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar shells.