Liberal Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib broke down in tears on the floor of the U.S House of Representatives Thursday afternoon while delivering a speech. 

‘I pray that the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinians will end. That one day they will be free,’ Tlaib (D-Mich.) wailed through tears to a nearly empty room.

Tlaib took to the floor to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, which her office described as ‘the mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes’ between 1947-1949.

Tlaib believes that the Nakba is still ongoing. 

‘Nearly 1.9 Palestinians have been displaced once again. Each year our country sends billions of dollars to maintain this apartheid state, and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian people,’ she cried.

‘Our country is complicit, Mr. Speaker because our nation is funding this genocide.’

‘The Israeli government will not stop until we place an arms embargo, majority of Americans support it. We must save lives, no matter faith or ethnicity,’ Tlaib claimed. 

Tlaib, along with other members of the far-left ‘Squad,’has been a vocal antagonist of the U.S – Israel relationship throughout her tenure in Congress. 

She is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, and was one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. 

X users, including several from her home state of Michigan reacted to Tlaib’s breakdown unsympathetically, with many asking who Tlaib believes she actually represents in Congress.

Podcaster James Dickson wrote: ‘Rashida Tlaib is almost never seen talking about America, Americans, or Detroiters.’

Another added: ‘Where were these tears for the 300k missing kids at our own border?’

Pro-Republican account ‘Red State Updates’ slammed her display of ‘crocodile tears.’ 

Tlaib has previously cried publicly during her tenure, both on the floor of the House of Representatives and during a rally held on Capitol grounds in 2023. 

The Trump administration has cracked down on pro-Palestinian protests, particularly on college campuses, since the president took office in January.

Immigration officials have targeted college students for sympathizing with Hamas, and even detained several individuals including Mahmoud Khalil, a former student at Columbia University in New York.

Tlaib has been one of Khalil’s most vocal defendants, arguing that his campus organizing is protected under the First Amendment.

‘We are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. We will not let the Trump Administration shred our First Amendment rights. Protesting genocide is not a crime,’ Tlaib wrote in a March 25th instagram post.

Earlier this week, Tlaib cried while reading a letter that Khalil wrote after missing the birth of his newborn son due to being detained by immigration authorities.