House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocks Rep. Rashida Tlaib from hosting an anti-Israel event

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday thwarted Representative Rashida Tlaib’s attempt to host a Capitol event with anti-Israel groups that denounced the establishment of the Jewish state as a “disaster.”

“This event at the US Capitol has been canceled,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said. announced in a tweet on Tuesday. “Instead, I will host a bipartisan discussion to mark the 75th anniversary of US-Israel relations.”

Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of the far-left Congressman “Squad,” had planned to host an event featuring nine anti-Israel groups titled “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People” at the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday. ”

“Nakba” – meaning “catastrophe” – is the Arabic term for the events surrounding the founding of Israel.

“It’s wrong for members of Congress to trade in anti-Semitic tropes about Israel,” McCarthy told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported Tlaib’s event. “As long as I am spokesman, we will unequivocally and impartially support Israel’s right to self-determination and self-defense.”

McCarthy noted that he intervened late Tuesday to reserve the space where Tlaib’s event was to be held.

Describing Tlaib’s event, it said: “May 15 marks the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nakba, which means ‘catastrophe.’ 75 years ago, Zionist militias and the new Israeli military forcibly expelled about three quarters of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland in what later became the State of Israel.”

Organizers of the event also said they hope to educate members of Congress and their staff about the “ongoing Nakba that Israel continues to subject the Palestinians to.”

One of the groups behind the event, Jewish Voice for Peace, is described by the Anti-Defamation League as a “radical anti-Israel activist group campaigning for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the State of Israel” and that “celebrates figures who convicted of involvement in terrorism.”

Liora Rez, executive director of nonprofit group StopAntisemitism, told The Post on Monday that another group behind the event, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, is “one of the main propagators of false anti-Israel rhetoric on social media.”

It’s unclear if Tlaib’s event will be rescheduled.

Her office did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.