“The people in the Detroit area deserve to know the facts about her positions,” DMFI President Mark Mellman said in a statement. “Our ad clearly shows her wanton disregard for the safety of the citizens of one of the United States’ closest allies, Israel.”
When reached for comment in response to the ad, a spokesperson for Tlaib pointed POLITICO to past statements the congresswoman has made on the Israel-Hamas war. Last week, Tlaib said in a statement that “achieving a just and lasting peace where Israelis and Palestinians have equal rights and freedoms, and where no person lives in fear for their safety, requires ending the blockade, occupation, and dehumanizing system of apartheid.”
The ad buy comes after the House on Wednesday tabled a resolution to censure Tlaib led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Greene falsely alleged that Tlaib’s support for a demonstration seeking a ceasefire in Gaza led by Jewish groups in a House office building amounted to an “insurrection.” Tlaib called the censure effort “unhinged.”
Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, has come under fire since the war started on Oct. 7 from some in her party over what her critics saw as insufficient condemning of Hamas’ attacks on civilians. Tlaib has said she does not “support the targeting and killing of civilians, whether in Israel or Palestine.”
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