Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) became the first Republican in Congress to label the situation in Gaza a “genocide.”

“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” Greene said.

Greene’s comments were part of a lengthy X post responding to reports of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) allegedly dropping Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) from its list of pro-Israel candidates.

Full text:

I remember the first time I met Randy Fine when he was a candidate before he barely won Florida’s deep red 6th district seat, as we were being told he might actually lose the seat because the strong Trump district couldn’t relate to him and didn’t like him.

He was telling me that he and his wife were looking forward to moving to Washington and he hadn’t even won yet.

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I said to him that Washington isn’t a good place to live and he should live in the district he will represent. You know that whole “representative” thing.

But he was adamant that they did not want to live in the district.

And I thought, no wonder that district doesn’t want to elect him.

I can only imagine how Florida’s 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children.

It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza.

But a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.

His awful statement will actually cause more antisemitism.

Antiwar.com has more:

By labeling Israel’s action in Gaza as genocide, Greene joins a short list of members of Congress who have used the term to describe the mass killing, displacement, and starvation of Gaza’s civilian population.

According to Zeteo, the only other members of Congress to use the term are nine House Democrats: Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Summer Lee (PA), Al Green (TX), Delia Ramirez (IL), Bonne Watson Coleman (NJ), and John Garamendi (CA).

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Greene recently led an amendment to cut $500 million in military aid to Israel from the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which only received support from five other House representatives: Green, Omar, Lee, Tlaib, and Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has also been critical of Israel’s actions and wants the US to end all military aid to Israel but hasn’t publicly called its assault on Gaza a genocide.

Greene’s comments came after two leading Israeli human rights organizations released reports concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a conclusion reached by many international rights groups and genocide scholars.

“Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.),” Fine said last week.

AIPAC responded to reports that it dropped Fine’s endorsement, saying the reporting was based on an “unsourced speculative piece.”

“This reporting is based on an unsourced speculative piece. We will be endorsing candidates for the 2026 election throughout the cycle. Current endorsees for 2026 so far are listed on the AIPAC-PAC website,” AIPAC stated.

“As Rep. Fine was elected only in April, consideration of his endorsement will take place later in the cycle, as is the case with many other freshmen members of Congress,” it added.

More details from The Independent:

Greene’s comments came after Trump, in a rare moment of disagreement with Netanyahu on Gaza, broke with the assessment of Israel’s prime minister. On Sunday, Netanyahu spoke at a Christian conference in Jerusalem, where he pushed back against accusations of starvation in Gaza.

“There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza,” Netanyahu insisted.

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But when meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Trump said that Gaza had “real starvation.”

“I don’t know. I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry,” Trump said. Trump said that the United States would work with other countries to provide assistance to Gaza.

At the same time, the Trump administration has sought to crack down on pro-Palestine demonstrators in the United States, such as when it arrested Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk.

Alongside Israel’s onslaught on Gaza that it launched after Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack on October 7th, 2023, Gaza now risks an outright famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said on Tuesday that “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out.” One United Nations representative said that Palestinians are beginning to resemble “walking corposes” and children are “emaciated, weak and at high risk of dying.”

In related news, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called labeling Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide as “blood libel.”

Israeli Holocaust Professor Alleges State Of Israel Is Committing “Genocide” In Gaza, RFK Jr. Calls Accusations “Blood Libel”

 

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