As war rages between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas following the group's fatal weekend attack on Israeli civilians, comments made by a few House Democrats regarding the region have been thrust back into the spotlight.

Since the attacks on Saturday, the death toll has risen to roughly 1,600, with Israel reporting about 900 deaths and Gaza 680.

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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who are members of the group known as the "Squad," have been criticized for statements that were considered antisemitic. Some representatives have further been accused of showing sympathy for Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Here are some comments from Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib regarding the region.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Before her 2018 election, the politician was pressed to elaborate on a previous claim that Israel was occupying Palestine. “I think what I meant is like ... the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty and access to their housing and homes,” she responded.

When prompted further, she said, “I am not the expert at geopolitics on this issue."

Directly following her congressional win, her team was asked if she planned to attend an American Israel Public Affairs Committee-affiliated trip to Israel the following year. “She wants to make sure that she’s getting a full picture of what daily life is like in the region,” a spokesman said.

“We’re just not making any plans for taking trips right now," he said when asked again.

By 2019, the lawmaker was fundraising on the claim that AIPAC was attempting to oust her. “Rashida, Ilhan, and Alexandria have at times dared to question our foreign policy, and the influence of money in our political system. And now, lobbying groups across the board are working to punish them for it,” an email read to supporters, citing a quote from an interview with an AIPAC activist.

In 2021, Ocasio-Cortez voted "present" during the ballot to pass $1 billion in additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Following her move to change her vote from "no" to "present," she apologized. “To those I have disappointed — I am deeply sorry," she said. The Iron Dome funding had passed the House overwhelmingly by a vote of 420 to nine. The congresswoman was observed crying on the House floor before switching her vote and later claimed she did so because of “hateful targeting” due to her opposition.

More recently, in 2022, she suggested Israel was keeping Palestinian children in cages. “I don’t believe that a child should be in a cage on our border, and I don’t believe a child should be in a cage in the West Bank,” she claimed after being heckled by pro-Palestine demonstrators.

This past summer, the congresswoman was one of a small group of Democratic representatives who boycotted a joint congressional address from Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Finally, in her statement following the Saturday terrorist attack, she once again referred to "ongoing oppression and occupation in the region" and called for "an immediate ceasefire and deescalation.”

Ilhan Omar

Starting in 2012, Omar was found to have written on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, a series of posts that were bashed as antisemitic and discriminatory.

"Israel has hypnotized the world," one post from Omar read.

In 2018, she posted, "Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews." Another post from her referenced "the Benjamins baby," referring to AIPAC's lobbying, drawing to the trope of Jewish people's infatuation with money.

At a Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet in California in 2019, Omar drew viral criticism for her reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks conducted by al Qaeda. "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties," she told the attendees. Her description of the fatal attack on New York's Twin Towers that saw thousands die as "some people did something" struck a nerve across the country and across parties.

In an appearance this year on CNN, Omar was questioned on her past use of discriminatory tropes and conspiracy theories against Jewish people. ”I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope. I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. That has been a very enlightening part of this journey,” she claimed, to the skepticism of her colleagues.

Following Hamas's terrorist attacks on Israel, Omar drew new criticism, calling on the United States to stop "continuing unconditional weapons sales and military aid to Israel." She claimed the country should instead "use its diplomatic might to push for peace."

Rashida Tlaib

The congresswoman, who is of Palestinian descent, has been slammed repeatedly for her remarks in a 2019 interview, in which she said that thinking of the Holocaust, during which approximately 6 million Jews were killed, gives her a "calming feeling."

“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports,” she said, drawing an equivalence with the Palestinian conflict with Israel.

As recently as July, Tlaib made a floor speech in the House, claiming, "Israel is an apartheid state."

Following the Saturday Hamas attack on Israel, it was observed that Tlaib still had a Palestinian flag outside of her office despite widespread criticism.

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In her statement after the attack, she called to end "the occupation" and dismantle "the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance."

Asked Tuesday whether she had comments on reports of civilian murders by Hamas, including those of children, Tlaib refused to answer reporters.