Tlaib: Pro-Palestinian voters will make Biden pay for defending ‘genocidal maniac Netanyahu’

Far-left US Rep. Rashida Tlaib warns that pro-Palestinian Americans will make President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional lawmakers pay for their support for Israel in the upcoming election season.

“It is disgraceful that the Biden administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear [anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian students on college campuses] for protesting to save lives — no matter their faith or ethnicity. It is cowardly. But we’re not going to forget in November, are we?” says Tlaib in a speech at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit.

The conference has included speakers affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — a US-designated terror group. Panelists have been heard expressing support for terrorism and other acts of violent “resistance” against Israel, including Hamas’s October 7 onslaught during which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 252 were taken hostage, mostly civilians.

It is unclear whether attendees infuriated by Biden’s support for Israel will go as far as to vote for Republican former president Donald Trump, but many have led campaigns urging voters to vote “uncommitted” as a form of protest in Biden’s run-away Democratic primary. Some may choose to stay home entirely in what is sure to be a very close election in November.

While Tlaib is a Democrat, her remarks leave some ambiguity regarding whether she’d be okay with Trump returning to office as a result of her frustration with Biden.

“President Biden, I hope you hear us loud and clear. 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 [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials from being held accountable for their crimes against humanity,” Tlaib says to cheers from the large crowd at today’s conference.

“You are an enabler, President Biden,” she shouts, lamenting his support for security assistance to Israel.

She blasts Biden and US lawmakers for being more outraged by the anti-Israel encampments on college campuses than they are by the scenes coming out of Gaza.

“We’re going to march, and we’re going to move Congress, and we’re going to move the White House. Because they have no other option. We’re not going anywhere,” she warns, closing her speech with chants of “Free, free Palestine.”

Here is Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's full speech at the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan. pic.twitter.com/1BxNm8lMpJ

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