"I pray the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinians will end."
"I pray the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinians will end," Tlaib said, becoming emotional. She then added, "That one day they will be free."
Tlaib began to wipe tears away from her eyes as another Democrat House member attempted to comfort her as she gave her speech on the House floor. After pausing for a few moments, she said she wanted to then address something else.
She spoke to a nearly empty room in Congress as she made the remarks, according to the Daily Mail. She was taking to the floor in order to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, which she has claimed is was the "mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes" between the years of 1947 and 1949.
The resolution from Tlaib, titled, "Recognizing the ongoing Nakba and Palestinian refugees' rights," claims that after the state of Isreal was formed once the UN partitioned the Palestinian area into two states there were "Zionist militias" that started a "deliberate and systematic effort to expel Palestinians from their lands." The resolution is sponsored by Tlaib and cosponsored by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), and Andre Carson (D-IN).
However, the resolution does not mention that after the state of Israel was formed with the US partition, five Arab states invaded the newly formed nation, leading to Israel pushing out the Arab forces and gaining more land at the time.
Earlier in the floor speech, Tlaib spoke about how she believes the Nakba is still underway. "Nearly 1.9 Palestinians have been displaced once again. Each year our country sends billions of dollars to maintain this apartheid state and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian people," Tlaib said.
Similar thoughts were in the resolution, which claimed, "The Nakba refers not only to a historical event but to an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land and its dispossession of the Palestinian people that continues to this day." Israel has given up land multiple times in history to the Palestinians in efforts to make peace.
On the floor, went onto say that the US is "complicit" and that Israel's war against Hamas, and that it can be described as a "genocide" that the US is responsible for funding.
She demanded that the US cease any aid to Israel and commemorate the Nakba officially as well as fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which had employees participate in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
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2025-05-18T15:37-0400 | Comment by: Jeffrey
The State of Israel was formed by stealing land from the rightful owners, the Palestinians. The US had no right to "partition" Palestinian land anymore than squatters would have a right to partition your house. The US in in fact complicit in the war crimes & forced starvation of hundreds of thousands of civilians, half of whom are children. Rashida an American of Palestinian ancestry correctly of the historically facts. She cried as any individual with a conscious should about the mass slaughter & forced starvation taking place in Palestine with US taxpayer funded bombs. Israel provided no evidence that UN employees were involved in Oct 7; however, Palestinians as an occupied peoples have the right under international law to attack their occupier. Israel has not given up land but consistently taken more & more land. Look at a map of historical Palestine as it was broken into smaller & smaller pieces over the past 100 years. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not covet. If you profess to be Jewish or Christian, these are commands. Stop rationalizing the slaughter of Palestinians.