Rashida Tlaib bursts into tears on House floor during demand for US to condemn founding of Israel

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) cried on the House floor on Thursday as she introduced a resolution for the United States to recognize the claim of an "ongoing Nakba" in Gaza, a narrative on history that condemns the founding of Israel after Arab nations attacked the country when it was first formed and Israel prevailed.

"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.