Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech on Wednesday in Congress to ask the U.S. for its continued support against Hamas.
Jill Stein condemned Congress' response to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after House and Senate Republicans applauded his speech in the House chamber on Wednesday.Stein, the Green Party's nominee for president, shared a post on X containing two videos: one clip depicted Netanyahu's standing ovation in Congress, while the other was a montage of clips of wounded children, people fleeing, and destroyed buildings in what appears to be Gaza.
A number of officials boycotted the event, including Republican GOP Representative Thomas Massie and more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers, who announced they wouldn't attend, either in protest or due to scheduling issues.Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian and has family in the West Bank, held up signs that read 'war criminal' and 'guilty of genocide' during Netanyahu's speech.
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