Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia’s 1st Congressional District has brought a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her antisemitic and pro-terror remarks at the Detroit People’s Conference for Palestine.
To censure a congress member means the House of Representatives or the Senate has issued a formal statement of disapproval for the member’s conduct, which is a severe form of reprimand but does not remove the individual from office. The resolution will first have to be voted on.
“Tlaib’s vile, blatant antisemitism is a scourge on this Congress, and she must be held accountable,” wrote Carter on his official website. “Her conduct is beneath that of a civilized person, let alone a member of Congress. I am calling on the House of Representatives to censure her remarks and put Democrats on notice for enabling and cheering on antisemitism in their own party."
According to Carter, Tlaib attacked Democrats and Republicans for supporting Israel, describing them as “sellouts.”
Tlaib also reportedly called for unrest in the streets, saying, “Change doesn’t come from the cowards and warmongers in Congress. It comes from the streets. It comes from all of us mobilizing and seizing the power to resist and fight back.”
Tlaib's extensive antisemitic rhetoric
In the censure resolution, Carter also drew upon Tlaib’s extensive history of antisemitic remarks. She was, in fact, previously formally censured in November 2023, after she blamed Hamas’s October 7 massacre on Israel. Tlaib was awarded the 2023 award for ‘Antisemite of the Year’ by the group StopAntisemitism.
“I’m a big supporter of Israel and of the Jewish people, and her comments I found to be vile and disgusting and certainly not appropriate for a member of Congress to be making, nor to be participating in the conference she was participating in,” Carter told The Detroit News.
The conference, which took place August 29-31, centered mostly around concerns about a supposed genocide being conducted in Gaza by Israeli forces, with discussions on destruction to infrastructure, deaths of journalists during the war, and the provision of medical aid.
Tlaib responded to Carter’s announcement on her social media, saying, “The pro-genocide, pro-starvation, pro-war crimes in Congress are scared because we are winning. They want to try to censure the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress again, but what they don’t understand is that they can’t censure the world.”
“Nothing will stop me or the world from speaking out against the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
Michael Starr contributed to this report.