Edward Helmore
Sat 23 August 2025
THE GUARDIAN
‘Does Hamas deserve it? Yes,’ Greene wrote on social media. ‘Do innocent people and children deserve it? No.’
Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine in parts of Gaza.
“Let’s be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people,” Vermont’s politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. “Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu’s [sic] war machine.”
Sanders, who also pushed resolutions to ban selling US weapons to Israel, has long been consistent about his concern regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the outspoken, far-right Georgia Republican, also called for greater compassion for Palestinians in a social media post Saturday, a day after UN secretary general António Gutteres described the famine in the territory as a “failure of humanity”.
The US representative, in a departure from the majority of her peers in Congress, described the Gaza humanitarian crisis as a genocide last month. In a long post on X, she then said that while Israel’s war against Hamas was justified, the suffering of civilians was not.
“Does Hamas deserve it? Yes,” Greene wrote, in part. “Do innocent people and children deserve it? No.”
“The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th,” she continued. “Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza?”
Greene linked the entirety of US financial and military aid to Israel to the conflict, arguing that it “means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions”.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with,” Greene concluded. “And I will not be silent about it.”
The post received an almost immediate response from far-right influencer Laura Loomer, who reportedly petitioned the White House to suspend the entry of injured Palestinian children from Gaza to the US.
Greene and Loomer, both claiming the mantle of Maga authenticity, have bitterly clashed on the issue, with Loomer falsely describing Palestinian children as a “national security threat” and “Islamic invaders”.
Loomer, who is Jewish, once claimed that her ban from social media platforms for anti-Muslim hate speech was antisemitic, while Greene infamously shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that wildfires in California might have been started by Jewish space lasers.
On Saturday, Loomer hit out at Greene, falsely accusing her of calling for Palestinians from Gaza to be resettled in the US and asking: “Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?”
The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said last week that parts of Gaza are experiencing a “man-made” famine in the Gaza governorate, which includes Gaza City, site of a new Israeli offensive.
“As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed,” the report said. “The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that an immediate, at-scale response is needed.”
The Israeli agency heading aid distribution in Gaza, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), rejected the report, saying it “relies on partial, biased data and superficial information originating from Hamas”.
On Saturday, Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, said on X that “the [international] media is missing the real story of ‘famine’ in Gaza. Hostages ARE starving, Hamas is getting fat, & the UN declares famine while 92% of THEIR food is stolen to be sold by Hamas. Meanwhile UN food sits rotting in sun. The UN should declare itself corrupt & incompetent.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene issues passionate plea in support of Gaza, setting off MAGA — including Laura Loomer
Kelly Rissman
Sun 24 August 2025
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for ‘compassion’ for Gaza and for the U.S. to stop funding a ‘genocide’ (AP)
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has issued a passionate appeal urging Americans to support Gaza, enraging her usual MAGA allies.
The far-right congresswoman has repeatedly denounced Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Last month, she labeled the war a “genocide,” breaking with her Republican colleagues in Congress.
The Republican Congresswoman wrote a lengthy post on X on Saturday asking how Americans would feel if the United States was “bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did,” killing and injuring adults and children, while the rest of the world didn’t come to its aid.
“This is what is happening to Gaza where in spite of what we have all been told, many innocent people and children are being killed and they are not Hamas,” Greene wrote Saturday morning.
“Does Hamas deserve it? Yes. Do innocent people and children deserve it? No,” she continued. “The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th.”
“Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of [October 7], how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza?” the GOP firebrand wrote. “Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing?”
The United States has sent nearly $18 billion in military assistance to Israel since October 7. More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported last month.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with,” Greene concluded. “And I will not be silent about it.”
Just 15 minutes after Greene posted her post on X, far-right activist Laura Loomer commented: “Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?”
Last week, Loomer celebrated the State Department’s decision to halt visitor visas for people from Gaza — including temporary visas for privately funded medical care — after she posted a series of videos of flights carrying people from Gaza to the United States and demanded that whoever approved their visas be fired.
The videos, showing children arriving in the country for medical treatment, were posted from HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit that delivers urgent and long-term support to Palestinian children and families. Visitor visas are nonimmigrant visas that allow people to enter the country temporarily, including for medical treatment, according to the State Department.
Other X users seemed to agree with Loomer.
“You have lost my support,” one person responded to Greene. Another called her “an idiot.”
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped by famine, according to a recent analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of international organizations on which the United Nations and aid agencies rely to monitor global hunger crises.
Laura Loomer, who last week celebrated the State Department’s decision to stop visitor visas for people from Gaza, criticized Greene’s take (Getty Images)
Last month, Greene slammed Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine, who is Jewish and one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel in Congress, after he repeatedly suggested that Palestinians in Gaza should be starved. He has previously suggested Gaza should be "nuked” and “must be destroyed” while labelling a fellow member of Congress a “Muslim terrorist.”
“Release the hostages. Until then, starve away,” he wrote.
Of the starvation in Gaza, Fine said: “This is all a lie anyway.”
“I can only imagine how Florida’s 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children,” Greene posted in response.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” she added. “But a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.”
Loomer again responded to Greene, writing: “There is no genocide in Gaza.”
Her words echo those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last month claimed that “there is no policy of starvation in Gaza” and “there is no starvation in Gaza.”
The next day, President Donald Trump pushed back, stating that the region is suffering from “real starvation” and “you can’t fake that.”
Greene has repeatedly broken with her party in recent weeks, including her opposition to Trump’s recent artificial intelligence executive order and her call for the Trump administration to release the so-called Epstein files.
“I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,” Greene told the Daily Mail earlier this month. “I don't know which one it is.”
Greene issues scathing rebuke of conditions in Gaza: ‘I will not be silent about it’
Ashleigh Fields
Sat 23 August 2025
Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine in parts of Gaza.
“Let’s be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people,” Vermont’s politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. “Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu’s [sic] war machine.”
Sanders, who also pushed resolutions to ban selling US weapons to Israel, has long been consistent about his concern regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the outspoken, far-right Georgia Republican, also called for greater compassion for Palestinians in a social media post Saturday, a day after UN secretary general António Gutteres described the famine in the territory as a “failure of humanity”.
The US representative, in a departure from the majority of her peers in Congress, described the Gaza humanitarian crisis as a genocide last month. In a long post on X, she then said that while Israel’s war against Hamas was justified, the suffering of civilians was not.
“Does Hamas deserve it? Yes,” Greene wrote, in part. “Do innocent people and children deserve it? No.”
“The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th,” she continued. “Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza?”
Greene linked the entirety of US financial and military aid to Israel to the conflict, arguing that it “means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions”.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with,” Greene concluded. “And I will not be silent about it.”
The post received an almost immediate response from far-right influencer Laura Loomer, who reportedly petitioned the White House to suspend the entry of injured Palestinian children from Gaza to the US.
Greene and Loomer, both claiming the mantle of Maga authenticity, have bitterly clashed on the issue, with Loomer falsely describing Palestinian children as a “national security threat” and “Islamic invaders”.
Loomer, who is Jewish, once claimed that her ban from social media platforms for anti-Muslim hate speech was antisemitic, while Greene infamously shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that wildfires in California might have been started by Jewish space lasers.
On Saturday, Loomer hit out at Greene, falsely accusing her of calling for Palestinians from Gaza to be resettled in the US and asking: “Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?”
The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said last week that parts of Gaza are experiencing a “man-made” famine in the Gaza governorate, which includes Gaza City, site of a new Israeli offensive.
“As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed,” the report said. “The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that an immediate, at-scale response is needed.”
The Israeli agency heading aid distribution in Gaza, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), rejected the report, saying it “relies on partial, biased data and superficial information originating from Hamas”.
On Saturday, Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, said on X that “the [international] media is missing the real story of ‘famine’ in Gaza. Hostages ARE starving, Hamas is getting fat, & the UN declares famine while 92% of THEIR food is stolen to be sold by Hamas. Meanwhile UN food sits rotting in sun. The UN should declare itself corrupt & incompetent.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene issues passionate plea in support of Gaza, setting off MAGA — including Laura Loomer
Kelly Rissman
Sun 24 August 2025
THE INDEPENDENT
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for ‘compassion’ for Gaza and for the U.S. to stop funding a ‘genocide’ (AP)
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has issued a passionate appeal urging Americans to support Gaza, enraging her usual MAGA allies.
The far-right congresswoman has repeatedly denounced Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Last month, she labeled the war a “genocide,” breaking with her Republican colleagues in Congress.
The Republican Congresswoman wrote a lengthy post on X on Saturday asking how Americans would feel if the United States was “bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did,” killing and injuring adults and children, while the rest of the world didn’t come to its aid.
“This is what is happening to Gaza where in spite of what we have all been told, many innocent people and children are being killed and they are not Hamas,” Greene wrote Saturday morning.
“Does Hamas deserve it? Yes. Do innocent people and children deserve it? No,” she continued. “The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th.”
“Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of [October 7], how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza?” the GOP firebrand wrote. “Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing?”
The United States has sent nearly $18 billion in military assistance to Israel since October 7. More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported last month.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with,” Greene concluded. “And I will not be silent about it.”
Just 15 minutes after Greene posted her post on X, far-right activist Laura Loomer commented: “Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?”
Last week, Loomer celebrated the State Department’s decision to halt visitor visas for people from Gaza — including temporary visas for privately funded medical care — after she posted a series of videos of flights carrying people from Gaza to the United States and demanded that whoever approved their visas be fired.
The videos, showing children arriving in the country for medical treatment, were posted from HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit that delivers urgent and long-term support to Palestinian children and families. Visitor visas are nonimmigrant visas that allow people to enter the country temporarily, including for medical treatment, according to the State Department.
Other X users seemed to agree with Loomer.
“You have lost my support,” one person responded to Greene. Another called her “an idiot.”
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped by famine, according to a recent analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of international organizations on which the United Nations and aid agencies rely to monitor global hunger crises.
Laura Loomer, who last week celebrated the State Department’s decision to stop visitor visas for people from Gaza, criticized Greene’s take (Getty Images)
Last month, Greene slammed Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine, who is Jewish and one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel in Congress, after he repeatedly suggested that Palestinians in Gaza should be starved. He has previously suggested Gaza should be "nuked” and “must be destroyed” while labelling a fellow member of Congress a “Muslim terrorist.”
“Release the hostages. Until then, starve away,” he wrote.
Of the starvation in Gaza, Fine said: “This is all a lie anyway.”
“I can only imagine how Florida’s 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children,” Greene posted in response.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” she added. “But a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.”
Loomer again responded to Greene, writing: “There is no genocide in Gaza.”
Her words echo those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last month claimed that “there is no policy of starvation in Gaza” and “there is no starvation in Gaza.”
The next day, President Donald Trump pushed back, stating that the region is suffering from “real starvation” and “you can’t fake that.”
Greene has repeatedly broken with her party in recent weeks, including her opposition to Trump’s recent artificial intelligence executive order and her call for the Trump administration to release the so-called Epstein files.
“I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,” Greene told the Daily Mail earlier this month. “I don't know which one it is.”
Greene issues scathing rebuke of conditions in Gaza: ‘I will not be silent about it’
Ashleigh Fields
Sat 23 August 2025
THE HILL
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) on Saturday continued her crusade against conditions in the Gaza Strip following a declaration of famine in the region by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
“U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” Greene wrote in a Saturday post on the social platform X.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it,” she added.
The Georgia Republican lawmaker has urged her colleagues to raise their voices on the topic and urge the Trump administration to shift its stance on repeated strikes on Palestinians in the region.
Several world leaders have spoken out against the Israeli government’s actions and said they would take the necessary steps to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed their decisions and maintains that the government’s objective is to eliminate Hamas, the terrorist group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th,” Greene wrote on Saturday.
“Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza? Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing?” she asked.
She told her followers, “God sees all innocent lives the same” after slamming the State Department for halting the approval of Gazans’ U.S. visitor visas for groups seeking medical treatment.
Some conservatives have shared objections to her statements.
“Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?” Laura Loomer wrote Saturday on X.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) weighed in on Greene’s statements in May, brushing aside the genocidal narrative.
“I [honestly] don’t care what crazy pants thinks,” Fetterman replied. “And why is that news and her views on that right now?”
“It’s not a genocide, you know, that’s just not the case. And she’s entitled to her opinion, but I’m entitled to not really care what her views on that is,” he added later.
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“U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” Greene wrote in a Saturday post on the social platform X.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it,” she added.
The Georgia Republican lawmaker has urged her colleagues to raise their voices on the topic and urge the Trump administration to shift its stance on repeated strikes on Palestinians in the region.
Several world leaders have spoken out against the Israeli government’s actions and said they would take the necessary steps to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed their decisions and maintains that the government’s objective is to eliminate Hamas, the terrorist group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th,” Greene wrote on Saturday.
“Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza? Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing?” she asked.
She told her followers, “God sees all innocent lives the same” after slamming the State Department for halting the approval of Gazans’ U.S. visitor visas for groups seeking medical treatment.
Some conservatives have shared objections to her statements.
“Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?” Laura Loomer wrote Saturday on X.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) weighed in on Greene’s statements in May, brushing aside the genocidal narrative.
“I [honestly] don’t care what crazy pants thinks,” Fetterman replied. “And why is that news and her views on that right now?”
“It’s not a genocide, you know, that’s just not the case. And she’s entitled to her opinion, but I’m entitled to not really care what her views on that is,” he added later.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
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