Democrat ‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib has sparked fury by branding Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘genocidal maniac’ – and told her own party colleagues they are supporting a war criminal.
The outspoken Michigan representative was censured by Congress and denounced as anti-Semitic last month for defending the October 7 attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead as ‘resistance’.
But she upped her rhetoric against the Israeli Prime Minister claiming he is ‘working to move Palestinians out of Gaza’ as the death toll in the enclave passed 21,000.
‘Genocidal maniac,’ the Palestinian-born activist wrote on Instagram Stories.
‘Every member of Congress who sits down with this murderer is supporting a war criminal.
In November Tlaib was slammed after she accused Joe Biden of supporting genocide and demanded a ceasefire as she threatened electoral consequences in 2024
Her remarks came as pro-Palestinian demonstrators continued marching across the country demanding a cease fire in Gaza
Effigies representing the thousands of children killed in Gaza are seen after people took part in silent procession through Midtown Manhattan last night
‘I am so sick and tired of our country funding and supporting a genocide and war on children,’ she aded later.
‘Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.’
Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched on Times Square and the World Trade Center last night, continuing protests in a week where anti-Israel marchers have shut down traffic at JFK Airport.
Chants of ‘Biden you will see, Palestine will be free’ and ‘Israel bombs, USA pays, how many kids did you kill today?’ was part of the rhetoric used by the protesters.
Effigies representing children killed in Gaza were seen after people took part in silent procession which was organized partly by elderly Jewish groups through Midtown Manhattan earlier Thursday.
There have been over 500 demonstrations across the city since the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7 that killed 1,200, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams, a Democrat, admitted that it was likely that protesters would attempt to disrupt the annual New Years Eve party in Times Square, where over a million people often gather to celebrate at midnight
Joe Biden is struggling to keep a lid on dissent from the left of his party over his public support for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
A preview of the interview showed Mia Schem speaking about her experience for the first time
Mia Schem being released to the Red Cross after 54 days spent in captivity in Gaza
One protester, Katie Unger, referenced the preparation for the celebration in a post on X as she marched.
‘They are setting up to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square. We are here to insist that the people of Gaza and Palestine too have the right to a thriving living peaceful new year.’
It comes a day after police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters that blocked entry to New York City’s John F. Kennedy airport on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
Travelers were forced to get out of their cars and walk to the airport with their luggage in New York after activist demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked the road leading to one of the country’s biggest and busiest airports on Wednesday.
Port Authority Police Department were notified of the protest activity on the Van Wyck Expressway inside JFK airport around 11:30 a.m.
Police said 26 arrests were made for disorderly conduct and impeding vehicular traffic and the roadway was reopened at 11:50 a.m.
But freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem, 21, who spent 54 days in the hands of Hamas said ‘everyone’ in Gaza is a ‘terrorist’ as she her first interview since her release on November 30.
‘I wanted to project the real situation about the people living in Gaza, who they really are and about what I’ve been through over there,’ she told Israeli Channel 13
‘I went through a holocaust,’ she said. ‘Everyone over there is a terrorist.’
Schem, a French-Israeli tattoo-artist from Shoham in central Israel, claimed that she was held with a civilian family, with children, while in Gaza.
‘It is families under the Hamas regime, you know. I realised that I was staying with a family. And then I start asking myself questions… why am I staying with a family? Why are there children here? Why is there a woman here?’
Before she was freed, she was made to film a video speaking about her experience, in which she said: ‘People very good, very kind to me… Food good and the kindness and everything good.’
The report was made headlines as it contradicted accounts of other hostages who recounted abuse in captivity, prompting concerns she had been made to speak against her will.
The 21-year-old has since shared pictures of herself on Instagram with a new tattoo reading ‘We will dance again. 7.10.23’
The post, uploaded two weeks ago, read: ‘I will never forget the 7.10.23.
‘The pain and fear, the hard scenes, the friends who won’t come back and the ones we have to bring back.
‘But we will still win, We will still dance!’