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Some 70 Democrats boycotted Netanyahu speech, Tlaib protests during address
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, protests during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/AFP)
Roughly 70 Democrats from the House and Senate are boycotting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing speech to a joint session of Congress based on statements from those doing so and a rough head count of those in the audience.
Netanyahu’s last speech to a joint session of Congress in 2015 saw 58 Democrats boycott.
Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib, one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress, sat through Netanyahu’s speech, holding up a small protest sign reading “Guilty of Genocide” and “War criminal,” before being asked to stop by officials.
