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Tlaib calls Netanyahu ‘genocidal maniac,’ blasts US lawmakers meeting him

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, speaks during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, October 18, 2023, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
Far-left Democratic lawmaker Rashida Tlaib calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “genocidal maniac,” blasting US lawmakers who have met with the Israeli premier.
“Every member of Congress who sits down with this murderer is supporting a war criminal,” Tlaib writes in an Instagram story yesterday. “We will never ever forget.”
“I am so sick and tired of our country funding and supporting a genocide and war on children,” Tlaib writes in another Instagram story. “Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.”
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