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.
Put that resolution in an envelope along with a quarter and throw it away, and you can say you have thrown away a quarter.
> 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. <
Every time I think Greene is okay, she goes and does something like this.
There is great attention to threats facing Jews because the threats themselves are great. No one is going around targeting Catholic priests or Amish farmers, even though both of those groups are easy to identify.
They still vote with the left. They’re not helping themselves. Kudos to Green for making the statement.
“ because she does not support outsized attention to threats facing Jews. “
Does she NAZI see the truth?
Apparently the FBI and other agencies ongoing monitoring of Catholics and Amish has escaped your radar.
Not surprising since most every one’s radar is exclusively focused on the Jews and ersatz anti-semitism.
Apparently the FBI and other agencies ongoing monitoring of Catholics and Amish has escaped your radar.
Not surprising since every one’s radar is exclusively focused on the Jews and ersatz anti-semitism.
Attention ho’s flock together.
> They still vote with the left. They’re not helping themselves. <
Yep. And that’s VERY frustrating. Most Jewish voters don’t get that the D party has abandoned them. Yet they still vote D.
> Kudos to Green for making the statement. <
Here we will have to agree to disagree. Greene is implying that these attacks on Jews do not deserve any special attention. She’s wrong. Heck, the mere fact that she’s siding with Rashida Tlaib is evidence that she’s wrong.
But as usual, your mileage may vary.
> Apparently the FBI and other agencies ongoing monitoring of Catholics and Amish has escaped your radar. <
Oh, I am totally aware of that. It was inexcusable behavior on the part of the FBI. And it’s another reason we’re lucky Trump was elected. He put an end to that. Now he just needs to fire everyone responsible.
But I’m not talking here about the Deep State targeting a specific group. I’m talking about warped individuals targeting a specific group.
MTG, closet anti-Semite.
You’ve performatively bowed to your AIPAC funder.
WTF are you talking about?
The previous administration was specifically having the FBI target Catholics as domestic terrorists and they had the FDA go after Amish selling raw milk and cheese.
Those are examples of ACTUAL oppression.
Nobody is doing anything to Jews except a few leftists are screaming at them and other people are publicly saying that the foreign ethno-state of Israel is behaving badly.
Jews are saying that this is basically the next holocaust and not everyone (like MTG) is buying that narrative.
Please see my post #10.
**Yep. And that’s VERY frustrating. Most Jewish voters don’t get that the D party has abandoned them. Yet they still vote D.**
Frustration is not the to proper reaction. MTG is letting them know just that.
AIPAC funder?
Really? Damn, where do I go to pick up some free money?
Get back to me, prick, when you can cite just one instance of when that resolution stopped any anti-semitism, I mean just by one fraction of an ounce. I bet you are so stupid as to think anti-semitism will vanish immediately with that resolution.
Have you noticed all the pro-Hamas ideology on the college campuses? Well, that is where the problem is but that would take action on the part of Congress to deal with it and that would require someone taking a stance, so, a resolution is just fine, enough to set you clapping seals off on a frenzy of self-righteous condemnation.
What a nasty and stupid post. What you attribute to me is bizarre.
“Every time I think Greene is okay, she goes and does something like this.”
Same with Rand Paul. I agree with a lot they say but sometimes ...
Long ago I moved way past aligning myself with any politician. To the extent they agree with most of what I agree with then I am generally OK with them. Not personal it’s just business.
Sort of like how there are coalitions of people with differing ideas in a group.
(MTG) “Congress’ support for Jews and Israel was driving antisemitism in the United States.”
When you are so disliked, you must constantly lobby for laws making it illegal to dislike you.
Marge rocks.
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