U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, criticized American universities on Thursday for responding to anti-Israel protests on campuses across the country where protesters have engaged in antisemitic behavior.
“From UM to Vanderbilt to USC to Columbia, students across our country are being retaliated against for using their constitutional rights to protest genocide. It’s appalling,” Tlaib wrote on X in response to a post by Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Hirsi said she was suspended from New York City’s Barnard College hours before being arrested for protesting against Israel at Columbia University.
Tlaib, who has Palestinian roots, has frequently criticized Israel and its leaders over its war with Hamas following the terror group’s deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israeli communities.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks during a demonstration calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, Oct. 18, 2023, near the Capitol in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, she said colleges were retaliating against anti-Israel students. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File)
“Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide — we’re actively participating in it,” she wrote Thursday on X, while calling on the Biden administration to stop supplying the Jewish state with arms.
Despite Tlaib’s concerns over campus responses to student protests, she has refused to call out the antisemitism seen at some gatherings in which Jewish students have been targeted.
Protests at multiple universities have seen anti-Israel supporters call for an “intifada,” or uprising, and for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Tlaib’s remarks about Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war have sometimes resulted in criticism from fellow Democrats.
In November, she referenced the popular “from the river to the sea” phrase, referring to the area between the Jordan River and the…
