In more news from Capitol Hill, lawmakers have barred the U.S. State Department from citing death toll figures provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Ahead of Thursday’s vote, Congress’s lone Palestinian American lawmaker, Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, read into the Congressional Record the toll of Palestinians killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza: more than 37,700 dead, 15,000 of them children. Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Let me guess where most of the yay votes came from…

      Edit: checked and surprise! Most Aaye votes are Republican. Only actual surprise is that there are 62 Democrats in there who should spend a week in Gaza to understand what they really really votes for.

      • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Most of NY, NJ, and CA reps

        Wonder where AIPAC spent all their money bribing and buying politicians

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I don’t even look at the news like a crazy drunk and I know exactly how screwed up Gaza is at the moment. Sure let’s remove terrorists, but wow, they gotta go for a children’s hospital?? That’s more like a putin move.

        Remember to never capitalize ruzzian or putin ever again. It’s a matter of principle. Perhaps we should not even use names to describe the two things at all.

    • Zeratul@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      How did so many vote yes for this? Mine didn’t, but that’s kind of a no brainer given their constituency.