‘Squad’ progressives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush are blasted by fellow Democrats for their ‘sickening’ calls for the US to cut off aid to Israel

Two members of the left-leaning “Team,” Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cory Bush, are coming under fire from members of their own party for calling for an end to US aid to Israel following Saturday’s brutal Hamas attack.

Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who is of Palestinian descent, released a statement on her Instagram account saying he mourned the “Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day.”

He continued that “the path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”

“As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,” he added.

Bush, a Missouri Democrat, said in a statement published on X Saturday that she was “devastated by the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel.”

Two members of the left-wing ‘Squad’, Reps. Rashida Tlaib (left) and Cori Bush (right), come under fire from members of their own party over calls to end US aid to Israel following the brutal Hamas attack on Saturday

“Our immediate focus must be on saving lives, but our ultimate focus must be on a just and lasting peace that ensures security for all in the region,” the statement continued. “Human rights violations do not justify more human rights violations, and a military response will only worsen the plight of Palestinians and Israelis.”

“As part of achieving a just and lasting peace, we must do our part to end this violence and trauma by ending the US government’s support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid,” Bush added.

Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-New York, and Ritchie Torres, D-New Jersey, criticized Tlaib and Bush’s comments in statements to Jewish Insider.

“Two of my colleagues have called for America to freeze aid to Israel, despite countless images of Israeli children, women, men and the elderly, including Americans, being murdered by radical Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists,” he said. Gottheimer in a statement.

“It pains me that while Israelis are cleaning up the blood of their family members who were shot in their homes, they believe that Congress should remove US funding to our democratic ally and allow innocent citizens to suffer,” the lawmaker added. of New Jersey.

Torres said US aid to Israel “should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need.”

“Shame on anyone who glorifies ‘resistance’ to the largest one-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust,” he continued. “It is reprehensible and disgusting.”

Representative Haley Stevens, D-Michigan, distanced herself from Tlaib’s comment in a statement to Jewish Insider.

“We must continue to come together as Congress and as a country to denounce terrorism and support the Jewish state, our democratic ally, Israel,” Stevens said. “Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself.”

Christopher Hale, a Democrat running for a seat in Tennessee, USA, responded to Bush post to X by writing“Congresswoman Bush, I’m a Democrat, but this is like putting out a statement that mourns the death of the nineteen hijackers along with the 2,900 killed in the 9/11 attacks.”

“The grandchildren of the Holocaust deserve stronger support against terrorism than this,” Hale said.

The Anti-Defamation League also criticized Bush’s comments.

“More than 600 Israelis have been killed, more than 200 injured, and countless others are being held hostage by the terrorist organization Hamas,” the ADL said. “Seizing this moment to slander our ally Israel and suggest the US cut off military aid is tone-deaf, heartless and beyond reason.”

The death toll has risen to more than 900 Israelis, most of them civilians.

The left-wing group has long been criticized for controversial statements about Israel, with Rep. Ilhan Omar in hot water just weeks into her term in Congress after tweeting Jewish stereotypes.