Rashida Tlaib, who earlier this month received glowing coverage as one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, has come out in defense of Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired as a CNN commentator after he made statements calling for the elimination of Israel and endorsing violence against Jews.

Tlaib tweeted, “Calling out the oppressive policies in Israel, advocating for Palestinians to be respected, and for Israelis and Palestinians alike to have peace and freedom is not antisemitic. @CNN, we all have a right to speak up about injustice any and everywhere. @marclamonthill.”

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She also tweeted out a petition calling on CNN to “immediately rehire” Hill.

Tlaib, who was elected to the House unopposed in Michagan’s 13th Congressional District after winning the Democratic primary, grossly misrepresented what Hill actually said.

Hill, who has a long history of anti-Semitism, gave a bombastic speech at a U.N. event on Wednesday commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

At the conclusion of his speech, Hill urged grassroots, local, and international action to “Give us what justice requires — and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.”

The phrase, “from the river to the sea,” means expanding a Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and it is a term that the terrorist group Hamas has used as a rallying cry for decades. Establishing a Palestinian state from the river to the sea would require the destruction of Israel, which is located in between those two bodies of water and is home to 44 percent of the world’s Jews.

The speech also warned against shaming Palestinians for engaging in violent resistance against Jews. He said, “Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Ghandi and nonviolence.” And he added, “We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.” Last year, Hill tweeted that it was “offensive” for President Trump to call on Palestinians to “reject hatred and terrorism.”