Democratic Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib accused Democratic President Joe Biden of “taking orders” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the worsening conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
“It’s shocking. The hypocrisy of us saying that we need to be stewards of human rights, except for Palestinians,” Tlaib said during a Monday evening interview on the MSNBC‘s The Reid Out, hosted by Joy Reid.
“They’re taking orders from Netanyahu who is on corruption charges from stealing from his own people, the people he’s supposed to be representing,” she said of the Biden administration.
Tlaib also accused Biden of being less openly critical of Netanyahu’s government than some Israeli media and citizens.
“I hope that my President, our President, speaks up and speaks truth about what exactly is happening because I know they know, and I know they’re enabling it by sitting there and saying these kinds of passive language that is not going to hold a lawless, very much a corrupted country right now that is set in apartheid [accountable],” Tlaib continued.
“Enough, President Biden. You will not do this on our watch,” she added. “You have to speak out against this violence in a very aggressive way that holds Netanyahu and his leadership accountable.”
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