{"id":563326,"date":"2021-06-14T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=563326"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:07:05","slug":"lawmakers-move-to-censure-squad-members-for-anti-israel-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-move-to-censure-squad-members-for-anti-israel-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Move to Censure Squad Members for Anti-Israel Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-move-to-censure-squad-members-for-anti-israel-remarks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=563326&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.009345794393\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Republicans accuse far-left House Dems of giving cover to Hamas during Gaza crisis<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Squad-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, And Pressley Hold News Conference After President Trump Attacks Them On Twitter\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Squad.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Squad-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 14, 2021 12:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"93.294339622642\">\n<p><span>House Republicans are backing an effort to censure members of the far-left &#8220;squad&#8221; for their anti-Israel rhetoric amid Hamas&#8217;s rocket attacks against the Jewish state last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The resolution, which Reps. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), and Jim Banks (R., Ind.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/waltz.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=507\"><span>introduced<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday, accused the far-left lawmakers of<\/span><span>\u00a0providing cover for Hamas by equating Israel\u2019s self-defense to terrorist attacks launched from Gaza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) emerged as Israel\u2019s loudest critics during the crisis as more than 4,000 rockets rained down on the country, killing 12 civilians and injuring many more. During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in June, Omar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/08\/rep-omar-claims-america-committed-unspeakable-atrocities\/\"><span>compared<\/span><\/a><span> Israel to the Taliban and Hamas, saying all three have committed &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221; during wartime. Tlaib has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RashidaTlaib\/status\/1393548019971284992\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> Israel of &#8220;war crimes,&#8221; while Pressley and Ocasio-Cortez <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/congressional-record\/2021\/5\/13\/house-section\/article\/h2303\"><span>joined<\/span><\/a><span> their fellow squad members in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-calls-israel-an-apartheid-state-668332\"><span>calling<\/span><\/a><span> Israel\u2019s treatment of minorities a form of &#8220;apartheid.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waltz, a combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan, said the squad members&#8217; attacks on Israel and the United States are &#8220;shameful&#8221; and ignorant of conditions on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We cannot turn a blind eye to Members of Congress openly defending terrorist attacks by Hamas against our close ally Israel nor their dangerous rhetoric which has contributed to anti-Semitic attacks across the country,&#8221; Waltz said. &#8220;I\u2019ve personally been fired upon by terrorists hiding behind women and children and seen the Taliban place suicide vests on teenagers. For members of the U.S. Congress to make equivalencies to Israel and the American military, which puts its own soldiers at risk to avoid civilian casualties, is ignorant of the facts, shameful, and should be condemned in the strongest terms.&#8221;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The push to censure the squad members comes as House Republican leadership weighs stripping Omar of her committee assignments, which include a seat on the Foreign Affairs subcommittee overseeing global human-rights issues. <\/span><i><span>Politico<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/huddle\/2021\/06\/14\/house-returns-with-long-to-do-list-493239\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> Monday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) is considering moving forward with a resolution to remove the congresswoman from her committee assignements due to her anti-Semitic rhetoric.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some House Democrats have taken objection to Omar\u2019s comments on the Gaza conflict. A group of 12 Jewish Democratic lawmakers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-democrats-condemn-omar-for-equating-us-and-israel-with-hamas-and-taliban\/\"><span>issued<\/span><\/a><span> a resolution on June 9 condemning the congresswoman\u2019s remarks as &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;misguided.&#8221; Omar\u2019s fellow squad members, including members elected in 2020 as part of the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/far-left-squad-2-0-set-to-join-congress\/\">Squad 2.0,<\/a>\u00a0such as Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), came to Omar\u2019s defense, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ilhan-omar-cori-bush-democrats-israel-rashida-tlaib\"><span>saying<\/span><\/a><span> criticism of Omar is rooted in &#8220;anti-blackness and Islamophobia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Republicans accuse far-left House Dems of giving cover to Hamas during Gaza crisis  Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 June 14, 2021 12:55 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280221,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Squad-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lawmakers Move to Censure Squad Members for Anti-Israel Remarks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Squad-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lawmakers Move to Censure Squad Members for Anti-Israel Remarks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}