Accusations about insensitivity towards Muslims burst out into the open at a caucus meeting on Wednesday.
Josh Gottheimer has been publicly critical in recent days of those he saw as insufficiently criticizing Hamas for its attacks on Israelis. | Alex Brandon/APProgressive and moderate House Democrats scuffled over the war in Israel during a closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday, with one lawmaker accusing another of saying a “shit thing” about Muslims.
Gottheimer later told other Democrats at the meeting that his comments were taken out of context and made as part of a separate conversation with an attendee about condemnation of Hamas. The congressman has been publicly critical in recent days of those he saw as insufficiently criticizing Hamas for its attacks on Israelis.
Amid the spat, Reps. Rashida Tlaib , Ilhan Omar , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive lawmakers were spotted leaving the party meeting together. The White House itself has been acutely aware of Democratic schisms on the matter, even as President Joe Biden casts a very public show of support for Israel. In a speech on Tuesday, Biden forcefully denounced Hamas’ attack as “pure, unadulterated evil,” pledging that the United States’ “has Israel’s back.” On Wednesday, he noted that in calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he had stressed that Israel, with all its anger and frustrations, had to “operate by the rules of war.
“It was so grotesque that it ended up uniting people even if they have different views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With the exception of a few of the chapters, you really haven’t seen any difference of opinion when it comes to this,” said a Democratic House member who was granted anonymity to speak freely.
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