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In an interview Saturday on Yahoo's podcast \"Skullduggery,\" Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, spoke about her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

\"There's, you know, there's a kind of a calming feeling, I always 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, had been wiped out,\" Tlaib said. \"I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.\"

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PHOTO:Representative Rashida Tlaib speaks during during a press conference at the Capitol, May 9, 2019.
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On Sunday, two top House Republicans, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Liz Cheney R-Wyo., condemned Tlaib’s comments as \"disgusting” and \"vile anti-Semitism.\"

\"There is no justification for the twisted and disgusting comments made by Rashida Tlaib just days after the annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance,\" Scalise said in a statement. \"More than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust; there is nothing ‘calming’ about that fact.\"

Tlaib fought back on Monday saying Trump and the top-ranking GOP lawmakers Monday had deliberately misconstrued her words to \"spread falsehoods rooted in hate.\"

“Trump has doubled down on his party’s use of the Holocaust to score political points. Instead of recognizing that the accusations against me are false and that my words have been blatantly misconstrued, Trump has once again used his platform to incite hate and violence based on lies,\" Tlaib said in a statement .

She added, \"Anti-Semitism has no place in our society and any effort to try to sow hate and divisiveness into our political discourse must be stopped immediately in its tracks. Hate and violence will not move this country forward. Only inclusive leadership and confronting the truth about the growing white nationalist movement in our country will move us forward. Unfortunately, we are not seeing it from President Trump nor his Republican Party.\"

Cheney called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., to \"take take action\" against the freshman Democrat for her remarks.

Surely now @SpeakerPelosi⁩ & ⁦@LeaderHoyer⁩ will finally take action against vile anti-Semitism in their ranks. This must cross the line, even for them. Rashida Tlaib says thinking of the Holocaust provides her a “calming feeling” https://t.co/opUUNEol2d

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 12, 2019

Both Pelosi and Hoyer tweeted Monday defending Tlaib and said that the congressional Republicans comments are \"outrageous\" and they they \"owe her an apology.\"

\"Republicans’ desperate attempts to smear @RepRashida & misrepresent her comments are outrageous. President @realDonaldTrump & House GOP should apologize to Rep. Tlaib & the American people for their gross misrepresentations,\" Pelosi tweeted.

Republicans’ desperate attempts to smear @RepRashida & misrepresent her comments are outrageous. President @realDonaldTrump & House GOP should apologize to Rep. Tlaib & the American people for their gross misrepresentations.

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 13, 2019

\"If you read Rep. @RashidaTlaib’s comments, it is clear that President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking them out of context. They must stop, and they owe her an apology,\" Hoyer tweeted.

Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., also have vocalized their support for Tlaib. Omar, who was elected alongside Tlaib as the first women Muslim members of Congress in U.S. history, faced controversy earlier in the year from comments she made that some deemed anti-Semitic.

Omar responded directly to Trump's tweet and said that his attack of Tlaib \"is another transparent attempt to sow division.\"

You praised people at a neo-Nazi rally. We don't have to imagine.

This is another transparent attempt to sow division b/t minority communities and distract from your own criminal behavior by smearing a Muslim woman.

No one should fall for it this time. https://t.co/y0ggJT83oF

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 13, 2019

This is not the first time the freshman Democrat has come under fire her comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the past, Tlaib has criticized Israel and the U.S. approach to the issue, and called for one state for both Israelis and Palestinians.

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