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      U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaks during the House Financial Services Committee hearing

      'Congress Must Stop Funding Apartheid,' Tlaib Says as Israel Razes West Bank Homes

      "Not even one week into 2023, the new far-right apartheid government is moving to ethnically cleanse entire communities—which would displace more than 1,000 Palestinian residents, including 500 children," said the Michigan Democrat. "All with American backing, bulldozers, and bullets."

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 04, 2023

      As chaos continued in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the first Palestinian-American woman ever elected to the chamber took aim at Israel's new far-right government for its plans to forcibly displace over 1,000 Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the illegally occupied West Bank.

      After noting that "2022 was one of the deadliest years for Palestinians on record," U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)—an outspoken critic of violence by Israeli forces and settlers, and the United States' military aid to Israel—declared that "Congress must stop funding apartheid."

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