House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer criticized the attacks against Tlaib, saying Republicans 'must stop, and they owe her an apology.'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined progressive Jewish groups to defend freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib after she faced attacks from President Donald Trump and other Republicans over comments regarding Israel and the Holocaust.
Representative Rashida Tlaib during a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, in Washington, D.C., on February 7. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images "There's kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land, and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out," Tlaib said.
Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of the American-Jewish group Jewish Voice for Peace, criticized the reaction from the president and Republicans.
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