Posted on 06/10/2025 7:36:32 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
No one voted against a resolution condemning the rise of hate crimes against Jews when it came to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday evening. But two congresswomen declined to vote yes.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, each voted “present” on the resolution, introduced in the wake of attacks on Jewish targets in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.
The women — both of whom have been accused of antisemitism themselves — each said they could not support the resolution because of what they said was Congress’ inattention to other groups facing deadly threats.
The resolution that they declined to back had bipartisan support. It was titled “Condemning the rise in ideologically motivated attacks on Jewish individuals in the United States, including the recent violent assault in Boulder, Colorado, and reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating antisemitism and politically motivated violence.”
A second resolution that came to a vote on Monday was introduced by a Republican lawmaker and drew criticism from some liberal Jewish groups for using antisemitism as a guise to advance an anti-immigrant agenda. The resolution, which expressed gratitude to the ICE immigration authority, also passed, but with much less support: 113 Democrats voted against it, compared to 75 who voted for it, and six lawmakers voted “present.”
Some Democrats who voted for the second resolution said they had voted for it with reservations. “I voted for today’s resolution condemning the antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado last week notwithstanding my profound disappointment that it failed to condemn antisemitism itself,” Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland said in a statement, for example.
Others said they simply could not bring themselves to say yes. “I unequivocally condemn the attack in Boulder and the alarming rise in antisemitism,” said Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado. “However, I could not support tonight’s resolution that exploits this incident to demonize migrants, celebrate ICE, and ignore the real concerns of Jewish Americans.”
Greene, who voted present on both resolutions, said she had declined to support the first because she does not support outsized attention to threats facing Jews. She noted that the resolutions passed on Monday were the 20th and 21st against antisemitism that she had voted on since taking office in 2021 and suggested that Congress’ support for Jews and Israel was driving antisemitism in the United States.
“Antisemitic hate crimes are wrong, but so are all hate crimes. Yet Congress never votes on hate crimes committed against white people, Christians, men, the homeless, or countless others,” she tweeted. She added, “Americans from every background are being murdered — even in the womb — and Congress stays silent. We don’t vote on endless resolutions defending them.”
Greene continued, “Prioritizing one group of Americans and/or one foreign country above our own people is fueling resentment and actually driving more division, including antisemitism. These crimes are horrific and easy for me to denounce. But because of the reasons I stated above, I voted present.”
Tlaib, for her part, denounced both resolutions as “Republican-led attempts to cynically politicize tragic acts of violence — like the recent horrific attack in Boulder — to demonize immigrant communities, praise ICE, and pave the path for the further repression of our constitutional rights to free speech and protest in support of Palestinian lives and human rights.”
She noted that Congress had not issued resolutions when Wadea al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian-American near Chicago, was murdered or when three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont.
“I stand firmly against antisemitism. And I stand firmly in support of a Free Palestine,” Tlaib said in a statement. “These values are not contradictory. Our fight against antisemitism is connected to our fight against Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, white nationalism, and oppression in all forms. We must continue to speak out for a world free from dehumanization and violence.”
Tlaib was formally censured by her colleagues in 2023 for using the phrase “From the river to the sea” on social media. The phrase is prominent in pro-Palestinian advocacy and seen by many Jews and Jewish groups as an antisemitic call for Israel’s destruction.
Greene has also drawn criticism from her colleagues and from Jewish groups for invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories. Last year, she voted against a bill that would have codified a definition of antisemitism because she said it would criminalize the “gospel” that “the Jews” handed Jesus to his executioners.
Birds of a feather
Any respect I had for MTG is gone.
Break it up ladies. You’re both pretty!
(stirring pot)
Shoe firs.
Leftist talking points much? So, everything that happened at universities the last few years was okay? Also, videos of Jewish kids who weren’t allowed in campus. Driven by the left. No one said it’s the next Holocaust. But not everyone wants a progressive dystopia.
Greene is a social media politician. How long before she wants to implement sharia law.
Go screw.
You aren’t that pretty, not gonna lie.
And jewish space lasers. Space sharks with frikkin ...
MTG is not to be trusted.
> So, everything that happened at universities the last few years was okay? Also, videos of Jewish kids who weren’t allowed in campus. <
Excellent post, nick. The streets attacks on Jews are relatively infrequent, and seem to be crimes of opportunity.
But that’s only half the story. As you noted nick, the other half is how terribly Jews are being treated on campuses. That’s not rare, and they are not crimes of opportunity. They are organized physical and verbal attacks.
Something evil is going on here.
“What a nasty and stupid post. What you attribute to me is bizarre.”
Well just look at you.
This is your stupididy I was responding to:
“You’ve performatively bowed to your AIPAC funder.”
Although I don’t know what AIPAC is, I can recognize snot when I see it, in the context of “bowed”.
For over 20 years, straight White Christian males have been vilified on nearly every college campus across the entire country. Not only have they been harassed by 20 year old sculls full of mush in dorms, in classes, in libraries, on the street, etc.... But tenured professors have stood up in front of the class teaching officially approved curriculum which described straightness, Whiteness, Christianity, and manhood as the most evil things on the planet. Not only that, if the kids wanted to get a degree they were forced to take these classes.(my son had to take several)
Could you even imagine forcing a jew to take a class where the professor described their race/religion as evil? There would be congressional hearings the next day.
I can assure you that I can show vastly more examples of actual Christian harassment, white harassment, and male harassment than you could give me of jewish harassment.
Of course all of it is wrong. But I’m not going to be upset when a politician who has watched this go on for the past 20 years doesn’t jump up and get in line to play the “cry for the Jews” virtue signal game.
And the Birch Society has a new hero.
> For over 20 years, straight White Christian males have been vilified on nearly every college campus across the entire country. <
100% correct, nitzy. Racism is wrong, the colleges tell us. Unless it’s directed at white people. Then racism is okay. Justified, even.
However, that does not minimize what’s happening to Jewish students on campus. It just means that there’s more than one serious problem there.
And as a (sad) side point, I really don’t see any of that changing. Leftist college administrators hire mostly leftist professors who later become leftist administrators. The rot runs deep, and it perpetuates itself.
My question is, why does this only happen when they express anti-Semitic or anti-Israel views? For every anti-Israel or anti-Jewish activist on our college campuses, there are dozens expressing hatred towards white people, the United States, and western culture (i.e. "anti-colonial" activism). So then why aren't anti-white and anti-American bigots also being thrown off our college campuses and deported from the US for expressing their brand of hatred?
The overwhelming majority of humanities and social sciences curricula of mat most universities focuses on the evils of "colonialism" - basically, ideological brainwashing that tells white kids they are evil oppressors who owe something to "oppressed" minorities. You are absolutely correct that Jewish students are never subjected to the same bigotry by university administrators or faculty, except when Israel/Zionism get tarred with the same brush of "colonial" oppression.
This is why I can't fathom why the Trump administration focuses specifically on college anti-Semitism as grounds for denial of student visas or expulsions when anti-white bigotry and anti-Americanism has been far more rampant for far longer on elite college campuses.
If you don’t know what AIPAC is, your nasty response to me was especially stupid.
“If you don’t know what AIPAC is, your nasty response to me was especially stupid.”
I just looked it up; it is a Israel lobby or something. Which gets me back to your original nasty response to me by saying I was “bowing” down to them because they pay me.
Looks like I made a mistake; I though that at least you were sentient.
You dumb dawg. I wasn’t referring to you at all!
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