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May 22, 2023

Rashida Tlaib’s Obscene Effort to Use the Elie Wiesel Genocide Act against Israel

We Jews know what it means to be devoured.

In 2018, Congress passed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Act, which establishes a mechanism for using government resources to monitor and call attention to current acts of genocide. On May 10, the Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib—along with five of her far-left fellow lawmakers—submitted a resolution to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs invoking the act to condemn “Israel’s ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people.” Elisha Wiesel, after whose late father the law was named, comments:

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May 22, 2023

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