| | Deutch was a co-sponsor of the [[socialist]] [[Medicare for All]] Act during the [[115th Congress]].<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676/cosponsors H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act]. ''Congress.gov''. Retrieved September 24, 2021.</ref> | | Deutch was a co-sponsor of the [[socialist]] [[Medicare for All]] Act during the [[115th Congress]].<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676/cosponsors H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act]. ''Congress.gov''. Retrieved September 24, 2021.</ref> |
| − | In late September 2021, Deutsch condemned [[anti-Semitic]] tropes made by fellow Democrat [[Rashida Tlaib]] on the House floor following a failed far-left attempt to strip funding for the [[Iron Dome]], asserting:<ref>Scanlon, Kate (September 23, 2021). [https://news.yahoo.com/ted-deutch-says-fellow-house-185900457.html Ted Deutch says fellow House Democrat Rashida Tlaib engaging in antisemitism]. ''Washington Examiner'' via ''MSN''. Retrieved September 23, 2021.</ref> | + | In late September 2021, Deutsch condemned [[anti-Semitic]] tropes made by fellow Democrat [[Rashida Tlaib]] on the House floor following a failed far-left attempt to strip funding for the [[Iron Dome]], asserting:<ref>Scanlon, Kate (September 23, 2021). [https://news.yahoo.com/ted-deutch-says-fellow-house-185900457.html Ted Deutch says fellow House Democrat Rashida Tlaib engaging in antisemitism]. ''Washington Examiner'' via ''MSN''. Retrieved September 23, 2021.</ref><ref>Richman, Jackson (September 23, 2021.). [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrat-slams-rashida-tlaib-in-fiery-floor-speech-e2-80-98when-there-e2-80-99s-no-place-on-the-map-for-one-jewish-state-that-e2-80-99s-anti-semitism-e2-80-99/ar-AAOKzOF House Democrat Slams Rashida Tlaib in FIERY Floor Speech: ‘When There’s No Place on the Map for One Jewish State, That’s Anti-Semitism’ ]. ''Mediaite''. Retrieved September 24, 2021.</ref> |
| − | {{cquote|When there's no place on the map for one Jewish state, that's antisemitism.}} | + | {{cquote|I cannot, I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representative and label the Jewish democratic State of Israel an apartheid state. I reject it. Today, this caucus, this body, the House of Representatives will overwhelmingly stand with our ally the State of Israel in replenishing this defensive system. |
| | + | If you believe in human rights, if you believe in saving lives, Israeli lives and Palestinian lives, I say to my colleague who just besmirched our ally, then you will support this legislation. |