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Dozens of Democrats delivered a stern rebuke of top progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s description of Israel as a “racist state.”
Late Tuesday, ahead of an address to a joint meeting of Congress by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the House voted 412-9 in favor of a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress supporting the State of Israel.”
The nine “no” votes all came from Democrats: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Delia Ramirez of Illinois, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Andre Carson of Indiana. Another Democrat, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, voted “present.”
“This was a political ploy by Republicans to target Democrats and try to divide us,” Jayapal told reporters after the vote. “I am not going to be bullied by their political games and I’m not going to let them try to continue this debate. So I voted yes on the resolution.”
Explaining her “no” vote, Pressley tweeted: “That my colleagues would be more concerned with silencing a woman of color for speaking truth to power than ending human rights abuses abroad is a damning commentary on the state of our Congress.”
Jaypal got herself into trouble while attempting to assuage “Free Palestine” protesters who disrupted her Netroots Nation appearance.
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