Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to answer a reporter as she repeatedly asked the congresswoman if she is “antisemitic.”
Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn repeatedly asked if Tlaib regrets using the anti-Israel term “from the river to the sea,” and whether she is antisemitic. Tlaib refused to respond or make eye contact with Vaughn.
“Congresswoman, do you regret using the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’ it’s used by terrorists to call for the genocide of Jewish people, do you regret using it?” Vaughn asked, followed by no response from Tlaib.
“The White House says that phrase can be antisemitic, are you antisemitic, congresswoman?” Vaughn continued. “Are you antisemitic, congresswoman Tlaib?”
Vaughn continued asking the question as Tlaib entered the elevator with a security guard and with someone who appeared to be a staffer. She held her phone to her ear for the entirety of the interaction. The elevator doors closed without Tlaib uttering a single word. (RELATED: ‘Do Israeli Lives Matter?”: Rashida Tlaib Runs From Reporter Grilling Her About Hamas ‘Chopping Off Babies’ Heads’)
Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has publicly blamed Israel for the bloody attack carried out by Hamas that brutally killed 1,400 Israeli civilians and has repeatedly called for a ceasefire. She has yet to retract her disputed claims that an Israeli airstrike bombed a hospital in Gaza and killed 500 civilians, despite U.S. intelligence and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) providing evidence that a misfire by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad caused the bombing.
The House voted to censure Tlaib over her anti-Israel remarks in a November 7 vote. Tlaib called the resolution a “shame,” saying her colleagues are more focused on “silencing” her than saving lives in Gaza.
“It is a shame that my colleagues are focused on silencing me than they are on saving lives, as the death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000,” wrote Tlaib ahead of the vote on Twitter, now known as X. “Many of them have shown me that Palestinian lives simply do not matter to them, but I still do not police the rhetoric or actions. Rather than acknowledge the voice and perspective of the only Palestinian American in Congress, my colleagues have resorted to distorting my positions in resolutions filled with obvious lies.”