U.S. PASSES DRACONIAN BILL TO BAN MENTION OF PALESTINIAN DEATH TOLL!
June 28, 2024The House of Representatives voted Thursday to bar the State Department from using funds from the international affairs budget to cite any number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza.
The House voted 269–144 to add an amendment mandating the change to an appropriations bill for the State Department. The amendment was co-sponsored by representatives across party lines, although the votes in favor were overwhelmingly Republican. The appropriations bill still needs to pass the Senate, and it is unclear how it will fare in the second chamber. But if it passes, then the Orwellian MOVE will effectively make the DENIAL of Palestinian DEATHS U.S. policy.
Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, tore into her colleagues for putting forward the measure.
“Since 1948, Mr. Speaker, there has been a coordinated effort, especially in this chamber, to dehumanize Palestinians and erase Palestinians from existence,” Tlaib told the chamber prior to the vote. “My colleagues want to prohibit our own U.S. officials from even citing the Palestinian death toll.”
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English Script:
Rashida Tlaib: I wanted to say how absolutely unconscionable that my colleagues are offering an amendment to prevent our U.S. government from even citing the Palestine death toll. Since 1948 Mr. Speaker, there has been a coordinated effort, especially in this chamber, to dehumanize Palestinians and erase Palestine from existence. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians did not end in 1948. Today, Mr. Speaker, we are witnessing the Israeli apartheid government carry out a genocide in Gaza and in real time. And then this amendment is an attempt to hide it. Let me remind you all of the words of an Israeli defense minister who said: “we are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything closed. We are fighting human animals”. They don’t even see Palestinians as human beings, Mr. Speaker and here we are. My colleagues want to prohibit our own U.S. officials from even citing the Palestinian death toll.
