GOP lawmaker says Tlaib should be ‘run out of town’ over ‘genocide’ sign

Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) should be “run out of town” over a sign that she held up during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday.

“She’s incorrigible & should be censored… & ‘run out of town’…” Weber said in a post on the social platform X.

Tlaib, who has often heavily criticized Netanyahu and the Israeli government amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, held up a sign that said both “war criminal” and “guilty of genocide.”

Other Republican lawmakers went after Tlaib for the sign as well, including Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who captioned a picture of Tlaib with the sign on X with “Iran’s useful idiot.”

Tlaib said in a Tuesday statement that it is “utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress.”

“He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court,” she continued in the statement.

“Rashida Tlaib continues to be an absolute disgrace,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said in his own post on X. 

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) captioned a post on X with a photo of Tlaib holding up the sign with “Useful idiot for a terrorist regime.”

However, not all the social media reactions by fellow lawmakers was negative. 

“I concur,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said in a post on X with a photo of Tlaib raising the sign.

Netanyahu is set to meet with President Biden on Thursday and former President Trump on Friday as he faces fury from the left over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war and the humanitarian crisis, with multiple Democrats having previously announced that they would boycott his Wednesday speech.

The Hill has reached out to Tlaib’s office for comment.