FIRST ON FOX: A legal advocacy group has asked on the Michigan bar to investigate and censure “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for antisemitic remarks.
The nonpartisan Coolidge Reagan Foundation has asked the State Bar of Michigan to investigate Tlaib, a practicing attorney in Michigan, for her comments.
The foundation’s counsel, Dan Backer, told Fox News Digital that anyone who promote “vile, antisemitic lies to foster hatred towards a people” should be held accountable.
Tlaib’s comments, according to Backer, “clearly violated” the Michigan bar’s ethics code, and he was first looking into “some of those snot-nosed kids” from Harvard and Columbia law schools.
“I was reading what she was saying and thought to myself, ‘You know, this is really outrageous.'” ‘How is this acceptable?'” Backer stated. “And then I remember, ‘Well, she’s in Michigan, I wonder if she’s a lawyer.'”
“And I looked it up, and she was,” Backer went on to say. “So we discussed it internally.” People must be held accountable, we realized.”
According to Backer, the “fundamental problem” that America is currently experiencing is that “people do horrible s— and they’re never held accountable for it.”
FIRST ON FOX: A legal advocacy group has asked on the Michigan bar to investigate and censure “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for antisemitic remarks.
The nonpartisan Coolidge Reagan Foundation has asked the State Bar of Michigan to investigate Tlaib, a practicing attorney in Michigan, for her comments.
The foundation’s counsel, Dan Backer, told Fox News Digital that anyone who promote “vile, antisemitic lies to foster hatred towards a people” should be held accountable.
According to the lawsuit, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation’s “request arises from Attorney Tlaib’s false, discriminatory, and anti-Semitic comments regarding the horrific massacre and other crimes the international terrorist group Hamas ruthlessly unleashed against innocent Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, including kidnapping, rape, beheading children, burning people alive, and murdering a baby by placing him in an oven.”
“In response to these atrocities, Attorney Tlaib made several public statements evincing deeply discriminatory, antisemitic views that call into question her character and fitness to practice law,” according to the complaint.
Tlaib was censured by the House of Representatives earlier this month “for her repeated reprehensible statements,” according to the complaint, and Tlaib’s “irresponsible anti-Semitic lies and discriminatory statements — which include embracing a call for the violent destruction of Israel and concomitant genocide of Israelis, as well as reckless false accusations of genocide against President Joe Biden and the government of Israel — violate the Michigan Court Rules
“The State Bar of Michigan should initiate an investigation and impose appropriate sanctions against an attorney who spreads anti-Semitic propaganda and lies in support of an officially designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” it goes on to say.
Tlaib’s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Tlaib has been under fire for her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments, including her support for the genocidal call to exterminate Jews “from the river to the sea.”
Tlaib shared the slogan on social media, stating it was for “peaceful coexistence.”
“From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for liberty, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, rather than death, destruction, or hatred.” “My work and advocacy are always focused on justice and dignity for all people, regardless of faith or ethnicity,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
The term, according to the Biden White House, could be labeled “antisemitic.”
Hillary Vaughn, a Fox Business correspondent, questioned the Palestinian-American senator, asking if she regretted using the phrase.
“Congresswoman, do you regret saying ‘from the river to the sea’?” Terrorists use it to call for the genocide of the Jewish people. “Do you have any regrets about using it?” Vaughn stated.
Tlaib remained silent.
