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Robert Tait and Lauren Gambino in Washington

‘I will not be silenced’: Rashida Tlaib won’t stop fighting for Palestinian rights

Rashida Tlaib on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday. ‘I can’t believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable,’ she said in the chamber.
Rashida Tlaib on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday. ‘I can’t believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable,’ she said in the chamber. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

As Israeli ground troops battled in Gaza City amid a spiralling civilian death toll on Tuesday, the congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the sole Palestinian American member of the US Congress, rose to answer a censure motion rebuking her for comments she made about the war.

Gripping a photograph of her sity, her grandmother who lives in the occupied West Bank, she defended her stance and declared that she “will not be silenced” and “will not let you distort my words”.

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