Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out Friday at her Republican colleagues for “fighting for Israel first,” calling them “confused” and “blinded” for supporting efforts to punish countries that oppose Israel’s siege on Gaza.
“The average American is barely getting by and this is what Congress should be fighting for!” Greene wrote in a fiery social media post on X. “My confused colleagues are blinded and have forgotten that their job title is ‘representative’ in the United States House of Representatives! Wake up!”
Greene’s comments were made in the wake of several Republican lawmakers signing onto a letter urging Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to investigate whether Ireland should be imposed with U.S. sanctions. The effort was sparked by a new bill proposed by Irish lawmakers that would prohibit trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, declared illegal under international law.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) led the charge in calling on Bessent to investigate Ireland, alleging that the country “supports Hamas” in boycotting Israel. The letter was signed onto by 15 House Republicans, including Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who previously said, regarding Palestinian civilians, that the United States should “kill them all.”
Greene, who remains the only Republican member of Congress to have labeled Israel’s assault on Gaza a “genocide,” went hard against her colleagues’ efforts to boycott Ireland, going as far as to question their allegiance to the United States.
“America’s economic power and success should not be used as a blunt force weapon against other countries on behalf of Israel’s economy,” Greene wrote.
“And I’m a big supporter of Secretary Bessent as he is working hard to level the playing field for AMERICA, but Congress, which is overwhelmingly controlled by multiple foreign governments, especially the secular government of Israel, is fighting for Israel first!”
As of last week, the Gaza Health Ministry reported the death toll in Gaza under Israel’s military siege and aid blockade to have surpassed 60,000, 18,500 of which were children. However, the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet estimated that the true death toll could be as high as 186,000, or potentially higher, and back in July of 2024.